FRANUI

Most of Franui's musicians are from East Tyrol. In fact, Franui is the name of a mountain pasture in the Villgraten valley, some 2,000 meters above sea level: a fertile breeding ground for creative flights of fancy, as is evidenced by these original arrangements for an enchanting dance band. With woodwind, brass, harp, zither, dulcimer, violin and double bass Franui not only reveal the very core of the folk music influences in Schubert's music, but take us further into the suburban taverns of Vienna, to places "where Franz Schubert had perhaps already spotted the squint-eyed grins of later kindred spirits, such as Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Weill and Lennon." (Thomas Wördehoff) In short: Schubert as you have never heard him before.