Nowadays Anton Bruckner is regarded above all as a symphonist, though he was known to most of his contemporaries primarily as an organist and composer of important choral works. The distinguished RIAS Chamber Choir of Berlin illuminates precisely this facet of Bruckner's composition in the Alter Dom, the Old Cathedral, where Bruckner worked for many years. Alongside vocal works by Bruckner the programme features sacred choral pieces by Hugo Wolf and songs by Gustav Mahler in fascinating arrangements by Clytus Gottwald, as well as organ works by Karl Borromäus Waldeck, Bruckner's student and his successor as the organist of the Old Cathedral and the City Parish Church.
Hugo Wolf (1860–1903)
Grablied in F major (1876)
Gottvertrauen A major (1876)
Six Sacred Songs: settings of poems by Joseph von Eichendorff(1881)
Karl Borromäus Waldeck (1841–1905)
Prelude in G major, WV I.1.3 (1867)
Anton Bruckner (1824–1896)
„Pange lingua“. Hymn in C major, WAB 31, 1 (1835–37)
„Vexilla regis“. Phrygian Hymn, WAB 51 (1892)
„Os justi“. Lydian Gradual, WAB 30, 2 (1879)
Ave Maria. Offertorium in F major, WAB 6 (1861)
Valentin Fheodoroff (* 1993)
Improvisation on themes by Anton Bruckner
Anton Bruckner
„Tota pulchra es, Maria“. Phrygian Antiphon, WAB 46 (1878)
„Christus factus est“ (III). Gradual in D minor, WAB 11 (1884)
„Locus iste“. Gradual in C major, WAB 23 (1869)
„Pange lingua“. Hymn in C major, WAB 31, 2 (1891)
Karl Borromäus Waldeck
Fantasy in Bb major on a theme by Waldeck, WV I.1.5 (1868, 1904)
Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)/Clytus Gottwald (* 1925)
„Es sungen drei Engel“ in F major, from the Fifth Movement of the Symphony Nr. 3 in D minor (1895, 2008)
„Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen“ in Eb major (1901, 1983)
Um Mitternacht in B minor (1901, 2009)
Urlicht in Db major, from the Fourth Movement of the Symphony Nr.2 in C minor (1893, 2008)
Valentin Fheodoroff | Organ
RIAS Kammerchor Berlin
Justin Doyle | Musical Director
