St. Florianer Sängerknaben, Alois Mühlbacher & Markus Stumpner - Erinnerung (Bruckner in St. Florian) (2024) [24/96]

In the Bruckner Year 2024, St. Florian Abbey, with the master's burial place, the famous organ and the world-famous St. Florian Boys' Choir, will become even more of a focus for the international Bruckner fan community than it already is. A special prelude to this was the intermission film of this year's New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, in which two St. Florian Boys' Choir members led an audience of millions through all of Bruckner's memorials and in which the choir performed the single release of the motte "Locus iste".

Almost every concert of the St. Florian Boys' Choir, which was founded in 1071, includes a work by Anton Bruckner, as the choir is proud of the "most famous member" in the history of this traditional boys' choir. The "Locus iste" has long since become the secret anthem of the choirboys, and the other great motets such as "Ave Maria", "Os justi" and "Tota pulchra es" are also part of the regular repertoire of the Florian Boys' Choir. All of these works have now been re-recorded under the direction of Markus Stumpner and will be released on CD and digitally for the Bruckner Year 2024 under the title "Erinnerung".

However, not only the master's best-known choral works are presented, but also rarities: a special role is played by the recently restored Bruckner grand piano, a Bösendorfer built in 1846, which accompanied Bruckner's creative output from 1848 to 1896. Franz Farnberger will play Bruckner's most famous piano piece, "Remembrance", and accompany another former choirboy, the now internationally renowned countertenor Alois Mühlbacher, in two Bruckner songs. Together with the pianist, the boys perform the "22nd Psalm", while an ensemble of former choirboys perform the two male choirs "Um Mitternacht" and "Herbstlied". Franz Farnberger rearranged "Der Lehrerstand", a men's choir whose text is difficult to understand today, into a humorous alternating song by teachers and pupils. This Bruckner CD recorded in St. Florian naturally also features the famous Bruckner organ - masterfully played by the monastery organist Klaus Sonnleitner.

Tracklist:
01. Locus iste, WAB 23
02. Os justi, WAB 30
03. Ave Maria, WAB 6
04. Pange lingua, WAB 31
05. Tantum ergo, WAB 32
06. Der Lehrerstand, WAB 77 (Arr. for Choir & Fortepiano by Franz Farnberger)
07. Herbstlied, WAB 73
08. Um Mitternacht, WAB 89
09. Erinnerung, WAB 117
10. Mein Herz und deine Stimme, WAB 79
11. Im April, WAB 795
12. Prelude & Fugue in C Minor, WAB 131
13. Ave Maria, WAB 7
14. Trösterin musik, WAB 88
15. Tota pulchra es, WAB 46


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