The magic, depth and complexity of his language inspired Theo Jörgensmann and Albrecht Maurer to use extracts from the "Hymns to the Night" for their musical journey...And so this music seems enraptured, far away from pattern music and from top-heavy construction. It is pure music, fashioned from the diverse musical experiences of a clarinetist and a violist."

Beate Bartlewski, Cologne, January 2017

Improvisation in music is like a conversation in the same language. But unlike in a dialogue, the answer is given while the other person is still speaking. This requires great empathy, an intuition of the other person's instructions and, of course, a high level of musical virtuosity. The duo Jörgensmann & Maurer seem to understand each other blindly. As a matter of course, the gentle thread of conversation grows into entire cascades of sound. 

Christoph von Fircks

"Theo Jörgensmann and Albrecht Maurer, personalized on the one hand in a wind and on the other in a string instrument, play with a clarity and symbiosis reminiscent of Eric Satie, but also with the fierceness of an afternoon musical contest in the Irish Pub. Entranced by the pleasure of their own being, the two stage a touching love game between spirit and matter as a virtuoso double..." 

Robert Bosshard

The dialogues are constantly gripping, often exquisitely exuberant, at times blending what’s ethereal and what comes from the depth of the soil... Every moment sounds auspicious even in presence of cheerless moods, such is the level of sentience transmitted by the pair, in total control of the sound/space/listener triangular relationship. All of the above without a single episode of oily mannerism. A “laudamus” is deserved.

Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes

Apart from this singular duo, the virtuoso clarinetist Theo Jörgensmann has long since gained an international reputation with his own quartet or the Polish Oles brothers. Meanwhile, violinist Albrecht Maurer has made a name for himself with the Kent Carter String Trio, for example. Such intense encounters as in the Duo Melencolia, however, only take place under those rare conditions of improvised music that lead to the secret land of soul mates. It is only surprising that Jörgensmann and Maurer only managed to record their first joint CD on the occasion of their twentieth stage anniversary last year: atmospherically dense and unspeakably detached, captured in a "first take" manner. Almost unbelievable in view of the lively exactness of this music.

Leibnitz Jazzfestival, Österreich

With subtle harmonies and chirpy spikes in the action all tinted with classical overtones, Jörgensmann and Maurer craft a sprawling musical plane amid their synergistic output. As they mimic dour circumstances or transmit a laidback disposition, their framework is balanced. At times they chase the demons away or operate within undulating currents and mystifying passages. The artists align the best of many musical worlds and cast a distinct identity throughout the ebbs and flows, abetted by their sprightly artistic acumen, superior musicianship, and pioneering vision.

Glen Astarita, All about Jazz