Choral music for male voices
Anselm Hüttenbrenner (1794–1868), a friend and fellow student of Franz Schubert, left an impressive oeuvre of choral music. Picking up initially on Schubert’s style, he developed an independent musical language of extraordinary quality and of great diversity of style and content. Witty and humorous settings of proverbs stand side-by-side with lyrically sensitive, folk-musically lively and festive secular choral songs, while his powerful, deeply felt, sacred choral compositions with their fascinating harmonic progressions create a bridge between Schubert and Anton Bruckner. This CD contains a representative selection of Hüttenbrenner’s part songs for male voices, interpreted by the male-voice ensemble Camerata Musica Limburg directed by Jan Schumacher.