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  • The action-packed evening — including music by Haydn, Mozart, Wolf, and Messiaen — will culminate with the 1923 version of Paul Hindemith's Das Marienleben, one of the truly great song cycles, and one of my favorite rebuttals to the old generalization that dissonance is only good for portraying angst and violence.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • The action-packed evening — including music by Haydn, Mozart, Wolf, and Messiaen — will culminate with the 1923 version of Paul Hindemith's Das Marienleben, one of the truly great song cycles, and one of my favorite rebuttals to the old generalization that dissonance is only good for portraying angst and violence.

    Now in the moonlight, a man could sing it Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • Listening to Hindemith's deft weaving together of disparate musical materials ranging from screeching Expressionism to conservative choral laments, skillfully led by conductor Gil Rose, you were never entirely sure if the composer was sincere or having you on.

    Hindemith's 'Cardillac' Pulls No Punches Heidi Waleson 2011

  • After this program (which repeats Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.), the conductor is off for another spate of globe-trotting, including a production of Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler" in Paris with the baritone Matthias Goerne.

    Eschenbach, Mozart, Mahler and the NSO -- getting along famously Anne Midgette 2010

  • Together with the symphony he extracted from his opera Die Harmonie der Welt, these are Hindemith's best-known works for full orchestra, though only one of the three, the Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber, originated as a work for the concert hall.

    Hindemith: Nobilissima Visione Suite; Mathis der Maler Symphony; Symphonic Metamorphosis – review 2011

  • Paul Hindemith's youthful opera "Cardillac" 1926 was written to shock rather than please, and Opera Boston's recent production of this rarely heard piece stayed true to that ambition.

    Hindemith's 'Cardillac' Pulls No Punches Heidi Waleson 2011

  • The three-movement suite Nobilissima Visione comes from a ballet score, while the Mathis der Maler symphony is adapted from Hindemith's opera of the same name about the life of the painter Matthias Grünewald.

    Hindemith: Nobilissima Visione Suite; Mathis der Maler Symphony; Symphonic Metamorphosis – review 2011

  • I have just unearthed a CD of Hindemith's Kleine Kammermusik that I borrowed at least five years ago...

    Making Light: Universal Lending Library Amnesty Thread 2010

  • The Casals cello suites define the notion of interpretation in the modern time as inaccurate as we may perceive them to be (but remember Hindemith's Bach comment wondering how someone playing with no vibrato could have sired all those kids ...).

    Salvati dunque e scolpati Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • I have downloaded Hindemith's "Marienbad" suite and while I probably won't listen to it on a daily basis, I was favorably impressed.

    San Francisco Ballet's "Nutcracker" sfmike 2007

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