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

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, voicing. 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 homage 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.

Rudi Wilfer, piano

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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