Bruckner Orbit Rudi Wilfer

• 1 Bruckner Orbit (Live) 19:55
• 2 In einem kleinen Café in Hernals (1) [Live] 03:07
• 3 What Now My Love (1) [Live] 05:26
• 4 Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen: No. 2, Liebesleid (Arr. R. Wilfer for Piano) [1] [Live] 03:53
• 5 Wiegenlied, Op. 49 No. 4 (Arr. R. Wilfer) [Live] 03:32
• 6 What Now My Love (2) 05:04
• 7 Mitzi und Felix 06:19
• 8 In einem kleinen Café in Hernals (2) 04:06
• 9 Blues Improvisation 03:58
• 10 What Now My Love (3) 06:06
• 11 Bruckner Orbit (2) 04:18
• 12 Bruckner Orbit (3) 06:07
• 13 You Must Believe in Spring 03:44
• 14 Moni's Garten 02:25
• 15 Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen: No. 2, Liebesleid (Arr. R. Wilfer for Piano) [2] 05:30
• Total Runtime 01:23:30

Info for Bruckner Orbit

Für ein Konzert bei den Brucknertagen St. Florian unternahm der große österreichische Jazzpianist Rudi Wilfer seine Annäherung an Bruckner und dessen IV. Symphonie, und sollte damit weit über den reinen Notentext hinausgehen. Wilfer, der inzwischen selbst zu einer ganz eigenen Kombination von Meditation und Swing gefunden hat, empfand fasziniert eine Modernität, ja Zeitlosigkeit in Bruckners Musik. Er kreiste die Stücke ein, er pirschte sich an sie heran. Natürlich wurden von jedem Stück mehrere Versionen gespielt, doch glich keine einzige der anderen, obwohl dasselbe musikalische Material zugrunde lag. Man konnte buchstäblich miterleben, wie Wilfers Musizieren in jedem Moment neue Wege beschritt - neue Harmonien, Artikulationen, Stimmführungen. Daher besteht dieses Album aus zwei Teilen, dem Konzertmitschnitt und den Studio-Aufnahmen, die teilweise dieselben Stücke wieder anders beleuchteten, darunter neben der Bruckner-Hommage auch zu Jazz-Standards gewordene Titel wie ,,You Must Believe in Spring" und ,,What Now My Love", Wienerisches wie Fritz Kreislers ,,Liebesleid" und Hermann Leopoldis ,,In einem kleinen Café in Hernals", oder auch Brahms' Wiegenlied.

Rudi Wilfer, Klavier

Rudi Wilfer
who was born in Salzburg in 1936 and grew up in Vienna, is today one of the most important and distinguished Austrian musicians of international standing.

At the Academy of Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna he initially studied trumpet and piano, which he followed later with the study of composition and composition theory at the Conservatory of the City of Vienna. Despite his considerable versatility the piano was to become his principal instrument. In the ensembles of Uzzi Förster, Fatty George, Erich Kleinschuster, Clifford Jordan, Friedrich Gulda, as well as with his own groups, Rudi Wilfer wrote jazz history. His lifelong friendship with Friedrich Gulda reflected both their musical and human ties.

In Vienna in the 1950s Rudi Wilfer began his career as a musician in Europe's number one jazz band, the group headed by the famous clarinettist Fatty George, in which he succeeded Joe Zawinul who left for New York to build up a career in the USA.

In the 1960s the legendary «Rudi Wilfer Trio» was founded: numerous recordings were made for Austrian radio, including many of his own compositions, and these were frequently played on the station Ö3, which was still new at the time.

His wide-ranging creativity as an artist has made Rudi Wilfer into a legend in his generation, while he also continues to provide impulses for young people who are musically involved in making jazz.

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