https://www.rundel.de/read_and_listen/7543 The young German composer Thiemo Kraas (*1984) wrote “Arcus” to describe the natural phenomenon of a rainbow. In a short daydream a little boy goes on an adventurous trip on the rainbow with his self-built sleigh. The music is as rich in color as the rainbow itself. Romanticism merges with jazz and influences of funk music, flowing into each other like the rainbow’s spectral array. The composition is a fantasy, at times told rapidly. We enter a short...