CD 56
Tyrolean Christmas Carol Concert III
Scene from a crèche, Götzens, about 1850, attributed to Felix Haller
The third Tyrolean Christmas Carol Concert was recorded at the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum over three evenings. When making the masterwefollowedtheprinciple of greatest possible authenticity in order to approximate the ideal of a successful live recording. The tension and intensity of communicating with an audience can be achieved only inadequately in the sober setting of a recording session. Nevertheless, this shortcoming is certainly offset by advantages, such as the ability to repeat and to exclude unpleasant noises in the room. However, we only took modest advantage of the countless technical refi nements that were of course at our disposal, i.e. the recordings were largely left as is. During editing we took care not to let a completely new artifi cial product result from the naturally wide variety of recorded material but to choose the most natural version as the core, leaving large parts of it unchanged. Only for more gross shortcomings, especially acoustic ones, was the synchronous passage from another version taken into consideration and cut in. In our selection process it seemed especially important to communicate the intensity and personal commitment of the performers, and to communicate the credibility of the message (glad tidings) to an anonymous audience. It also mattered to show with how much love all of this had been tackled and carried out by all participants from the start. Imperfections that are typically human were also welcome and purposely left in the recording.
Track 17, 1:24
Einzug der Hl. drei Könige