Composer: Johannes Brahms, Gilbert Bécaud, Fritz Kreisler, Michel Legrand, Hermann Leopoldi, Rudi Wilfer
Performer: Rudi Wilfer
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Gramola
Catalogue: 99234
Release: 2021
Size: 673 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
01. Wilfer: Bruckner Orbit (Live)
02. Leopoldi: In einem kleinen Café in Hernals (1)
03. Bécaud: What Now My Love (1)
Kreisler: Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen
04. No. 2, Liebesleid (Arr. R. Wilfer for Piano) (1)
05. Brahms: Wiegenlied, Op. 49 No. 4 (Lullaby)
CD 02
01. Bécaud: What Now My Love (2)
02. Wilfer: Mitzi und Felix
03. Leopoldi: In einem kleinen Café in Hernals (2)
04. Wilfer: Blues Improvisation
05. Bécaud: What Now My Love (3)
06. Wilfer: Bruckner Orbit (2)
07. Wilfer: Bruckner Orbit (3)
08. Legrand: You must believe in Spring
09. Wilfer: Moni’s Garten
Kreisler: Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen
10. No. 2, Liebesleid (Arr. R. Wilfer for Piano)
On the occasion of a concert at the Brucknertage festival St. Florian the great Austrian jazz pianist Rudi Wilfer took on his journey to Anton Bruckner and his IV. Symphony, which would widely circumpass the written music. Wilfer who has found his very own combination of meditation and swing perceived in Bruckner’s music a fascinating modernity, even agelessness. Surely, the pieces were recorded several times, yet no version turned out alike, even though the musical material remained the same.
The listener could literally observe how Wilfer’s playing in every instant led to new paths – new harmonies, articulations, voicings. The album consists of two parts, the live recording and the studio recordings which at times shine a different light onto the same pieces, besides the hommage to Bruckner also jazz standards like You Must Believe in Spring and What Now My Love, Viennese pieces like Liebesleid by Fritz Kreisler or In einem kleinen Café in Hernals by Hermann Leopoldi as well as Wiegenlied by Brahms.