Tyrolean Christmasconcert 2024

Around 1800, the parish organist Josef Alois Holzmann from Hall was considered the most important composer in Tyrol. His numerous works, primarily for church music, enjoyed great popularity in Tyrol for decades after his death. The particularly festive Christmas Mass in F major has been preserved in the music archive of the parish church of St Nicholas in the composer's handwriting. This work surpasses all of Holzmann's other pastoral masses in terms of length and compositional ambition. In this splendid and original Christmas mass setting, Holzmann lives up to his reputation as the ‘Tyrolean Mozart’. This composition is complemented by touching Christmas music by Holzmann and his contemporaries. Josef Holzmann (1762-1815) ∙ Pastoral Mass in F for soloists, choir and orchestra and Christmas works from Tyrolean tradition Stefanie Steger, soprano Eva Schöler, alto Johannes Puchleitner, tenor Stefan Zenkl, bass Choir and orchestra of the St. Blasius Academy Karlheinz Siessl, conductor