G?TTLER,LUDWIG/VIRTUOSI SAXONIAE - 200 Jahre Stille Nacht,Heilige Nacht (Sealed) (CD)

200 years ago in a small Austrian village. the most famous Christmas carol in the world was created. Ludwig G?ttler, who is celebrating his 75th birthday this year this special jubilee with a special Christmas carol. special edition. Think of winter in summer, remembers an old farmer's rule. This is also true for CD albums, which are the most beautiful of the year. So in the middle of the Hochsommer Ludwig G?ttler asked how to celebrate the 200th anniversary of such a global song as Silent Night. Birthday of such a global song as Silent Night, Holy One I can appreciate you adequately at night. "It is one of the first Christmas carols, which I played myself on the accordion. I had that to play after my fifth birthday. I had that after my fifth birthday to Christmas as a gift," Ludwig remembers. G?ttler, as well as in the fact that in his childhood each one the I was singing along to. And what's more: He was able to that someone sitting in the church would remain motionless during Silent Night. According to tradition, it was sung for the first time in the small town of Oberndorf near Salzburg during a Christmas mass in 1818, conceived by Franz Xaver Gruber, who played the organ there in those years, and the assistant priest Joseph Mohr. A song whose lyrics do not belong to world literature, but in the guise of this music it touches and moves hearts all over the world. Ludwig G?ttler, who is largely at home in the world of the 17th and 18th centuries, is in a better position than any other to explain the musical background of this song. "I want to make a selection heard on whose cultural shoulders this song was written, and I have tried to sketch a musical world that the authors found in Oberndorf," G?ttler says about his motivation. In addition to the best recordings from his gigantic catalogue, there are also recordings that have not yet been published. G?ttler has Silent Night! Holy Night! for his brass ensemble arranged, each of the six verses into one own instrumental robe and in the summer in the Austrian town of Zwettl. It begins with a french horn solo, later the melody instrument changes over and over again, different groupings ensure for colourfulness. The variety of possibilities of the brass ensemble becomes tangible and arouses curiosity. Whole in the end there is a game with the echo, a fading away without End in the sense of a song. All in the spirit of a song, destined for eternity. and again and again impulse for reflection on what is that life is.