Fans of Eugene Ormandy and his Philadelphia Orchestra will embrace this reissue of recordings of Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber and Concert Music for Strings and Brass and Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin Suite. Made late in his career, Ormandy's Symphonic Metamorphosis is brilliantly colorful and brightly ...
The first flush of the digital era brought about a boatload of unexpected recordings, including this set of Hindemith's Kammermusik by Claudio Abbado and the Berliner Philharmoniker. Prior to Abbado's, there had already been two superlative recordings in the digital era: Riccardo Chailly and the Concertgebouw Orchestra's propulsive and virtuosic ...
According to conventional wisdom, the adjective that most aptly describes Hindemith's music is "dry," just about as damning an assessment as exists, barely a step up from "mind-numbingly dull" or "unlistenable." Who wants to listen to dry music? Hindemith was remarkably prolific, and it must be admitted that he perhaps wrote more than his share of ...
This is Paul Hindemith's only mature cello concerto for full orchestra. (Two earlier ones are a student work and one of his Kammermusik series, for only eleven instruments.) It is a fortunate work that is well regarded, played by several leading soloists, but outside the common repertory just enough that it is not-so-often picked for performances ...
As Dennis Brain was the finest horn player in the United Kingdom in the '50s, so the Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble was the finest wind chamber ensemble in the United Kingdom in the '50s. Brain, of course, is well known for his recordings of Strauss and Mozart's Horn Concertos, recordings which remain the deepest, the strongest, and the most soulful ...
The pairing of Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 5 (1934) with Paul Hindemith's String Quartet No. 4, Op. 22 (1921), is a clever idea that one might expect of the Zehetmair Quartet, an intellectually curious ensemble that enjoys programming works to find interesting similarities between them. Both Bartók's Fifth and Hindemith's Fourth have points ...
The incredible thing about the Leipziger Streichquartett's 2006 disc Encores is that it works. It works as a concept -- every one of these pieces proves an absolutely apt encore. It works as a program -- taken altogether, these pieces add up to a completely satisfying listening experience. And it works as a performance -- one after another and all ...
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