Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis, Nobilissima Visione & Boston Symphony

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Janowski lends the music greater energy and urgency [than Abbado]…This very well recorded disc should win Hindemith new friends. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 16th Feb 2018
Catalogue No: PTC5186672
Label: Pentatone
Length: 58 minutes

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Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber

Work length19:33

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$6.50

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WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Marek Janowski
Recorded: January 2017
Recording Venue: Philharmonie, Köln, Germany

I. Allegro

Track length3:36

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II. Scherzo. Moderato - Lebhaft

Track length7:35

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III. Andantino

Track length4:01

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IV. Marsch

Track length4:21

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Hindemith: Nobilissima Visione

Work length22:00

$5.00

$6.50

$8.75

WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Marek Janowski
Recorded: January 2017
Recording Venue: Philharmonie, Köln, Germany

I. Einleitung und Rondo

Track length7:43

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II. Marsch und Pastorale

Track length8:00

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III. Passacaglia

Track length6:17

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Hindemith: Konzertmusik, Op. 50 for strings & brass

Work length16:47

$4.00

$5.20

$7.00

WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Marek Janowski
Recorded: January 2017
Recording Venue: Philharmonie, Köln, Germany

Pt. 1, Mäßig schnell, mit Kraft - Sehr breit, aber stets fließend

Track length8:59

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Pt. 2, Lebhaft - Langsam - Im ersten Zeitmaß

Track length7:48

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Paul Hindemith belongs to the most original and interesting composers of the 20th century. Once described by the Boston Globe as a "20th-century Brahms", Hindemith wrote music that is Modernist in its rhythmic audacity and colourful orchestration, but simultaneously inspired by Classical forms and styles.

The WDR Symphony Orchestra and conductor Marek Janowski provide a fascinating interpretation of three orchestral works that display an irrepressible, almost wild passion for music-making that is omnipresent throughout Hindemith's oeuvre. In the Concert Music for Strings and Brass (1931) - also known as "Boston Symphony" Hindemith invigorates the century-old concertato style of competing instrument groups in twentieth-century fashion by utilizing unusual ensemble combinations. He extracted the Nobilissima Visione suite (1938) from an eponymous "dance legend" on Saint Francis's vision of the three allegories of poverty, chastity, and obedience. The piece represents the violent battle in which Francis is wounded, but most of the music is serene, focusing on the noblest vision that the wounded Francis subsequently experiences.

The Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (1944) were also conceived as a ballet, but eventually materialized as a concert piece. Hindemith based the work on a collection of melodies that Carl Maria von Weber once wrote for a theatre performance of Friedrich Schiller's Turandot. Weber's rather simple chinoiserie dating from 1809 is driven forward relentlessly by Hindemith's rhythms and jazzy harmonies. The piece epitomizes Hindemith's capacity to reconcile the old and new in a highly personal musical Language.

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May 2018

Janowski lends the music greater energy and urgency [than Abbado]…This very well recorded disc should win Hindemith new friends.

25th February 2018

The resurgence on disc of the 79-year-old Polish-born German conductor, after his recordings of Wagner’s great operas, continues to produce musical dividends.

10th March 2018

Janowski’s swift, sharp account of the Symphonic Metamorphoses is outstanding, the jazzy fugue in the Turandot section suitably deadpan, the final movement’s sprightly funeral march becoming a brassy stomp. Crucially, Hindemith never lets things become bombastic, the work’s good-natured cheeriness winning out. An exceptional disc, and worth buying just for the killer tune.

Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis, Nobilissima Visione & Boston Symphony

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