CD 24

Music from Stams Monastery III

This  is  the  1994  Tyrolean Christmas  concert  held  at the Tiroler  Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum. The main focus of the event was a Christmas mass composed by the Benedictine monk Edmund Angerer (1740-1794) of Fiecht Monastery around 1780. The music for this marvelous piece with its festive atmosphere and intimate Christmas sentiment has been preserved in the music archive of Stams Monastery. Inserted    into    Angerer’s mass on our program was a German Christmas cantata by his teacher Vigilius Blasius Faitelli (1710-1768), a native of  Bozen.  In  his  charming three-part composition, Faitelli used expertly applied tonal color to depict the scenes of  the Annunciation  to  the Shepherds and the Shepherds at the Manger in music. Johann Michael Malzat’s (1749-1787) Pastoral  Symphony  is  both exuberant and contemplative in character. While in the fi rst movement (track 9) a post-horn solo joyfully announces the birth of the divine Child, the second movement (track 12) with its sustained cantilena probably symbolizes pity for the baby in the manger in the cold stable of Bethlehem. Thus this music conveys a moving and multifaceted impression of the mystery of Christmas.

Track 1, 2:26
Missa pastorale in B
Kyrie eleison
Edmund Angerer OSB
(1740-1794)

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