Hindemith Choral Works
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Composer or Director: Paul Hindemith
Label: Globe
Magazine Review Date: 5/1996
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 57
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: GLO5125

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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(6) Chansons |
Paul Hindemith, Composer
Netherlands Chamber Choir Paul Hindemith, Composer Uwe Gronostay, Conductor |
(Eine) Lichte Mitternacht |
Paul Hindemith, Composer
Netherlands Chamber Choir Paul Hindemith, Composer Uwe Gronostay, Conductor |
Du musst dir alles geben |
Paul Hindemith, Composer
Netherlands Chamber Choir Paul Hindemith, Composer Uwe Gronostay, Conductor |
(Der) Tod |
Paul Hindemith, Composer
Netherlands Chamber Choir Paul Hindemith, Composer Uwe Gronostay, Conductor |
Nun da der Tag |
Paul Hindemith, Composer
Netherlands Chamber Choir Paul Hindemith, Composer Uwe Gronostay, Conductor |
(12) Madrigale, Movement: Mitwalt |
Paul Hindemith, Composer
Netherlands Chamber Choir Paul Hindemith, Composer Uwe Gronostay, Conductor |
(12) Madrigale, Movement: Tauche deine Furch in schwarzen Wein |
Paul Hindemith, Composer
Netherlands Chamber Choir Paul Hindemith, Composer Uwe Gronostay, Conductor |
(12) Madrigale, Movement: Trink aus! |
Paul Hindemith, Composer
Netherlands Chamber Choir Paul Hindemith, Composer Uwe Gronostay, Conductor |
(12) Madrigale, Movement: Frühling |
Paul Hindemith, Composer
Netherlands Chamber Choir Paul Hindemith, Composer Uwe Gronostay, Conductor |
(12) Madrigale, Movement: Judaskuss |
Paul Hindemith, Composer
Netherlands Chamber Choir Paul Hindemith, Composer Uwe Gronostay, Conductor |
(12) Madrigale, Movement: Du Zweifel an dem Sinn der Welt |
Paul Hindemith, Composer
Netherlands Chamber Choir Paul Hindemith, Composer Uwe Gronostay, Conductor |
Mass |
Paul Hindemith, Composer
Netherlands Chamber Choir Paul Hindemith, Composer Uwe Gronostay, Conductor |
Composer or Director: Paul Hindemith
Label: Chandos
Magazine Review Date: 5/1996
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 52
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: CHAN9413

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Mass |
Paul Hindemith, Composer
Danish National Radio Chorus Paul Hindemith, Composer Uwe Gronostay, Conductor |
(12) Madrigale, Movement: Eines Narren, eines Künstlers Leben |
Paul Hindemith, Composer
Danish National Radio Chorus Paul Hindemith, Composer Uwe Gronostay, Conductor |
(12) Madrigale, Movement: An eine Tote |
Paul Hindemith, Composer
Danish National Radio Chorus Paul Hindemith, Composer Uwe Gronostay, Conductor |
(12) Madrigale, Movement: An eien Schmetterling |
Paul Hindemith, Composer
Danish National Radio Chorus Paul Hindemith, Composer Uwe Gronostay, Conductor |
(12) Madrigale, Movement: Magisches Rezept |
Paul Hindemith, Composer
Danish National Radio Chorus Paul Hindemith, Composer Uwe Gronostay, Conductor |
(12) Madrigale, Movement: Es bleibt wohl, was gesagt Wird |
Paul Hindemith, Composer
Danish National Radio Chorus Paul Hindemith, Composer Uwe Gronostay, Conductor |
(12) Madrigale, Movement: Kraft fand zu Form |
Paul Hindemith, Composer
Danish National Radio Chorus Paul Hindemith, Composer Uwe Gronostay, Conductor |
(6) Lieder nach alten Texten |
Paul Hindemith, Composer
Danish National Radio Chorus Paul Hindemith, Composer Uwe Gronostay, Conductor |
Author:
Uwe Gronostay obviously has an affection for this work in particular, given that he has recorded it twice in as many years for two separate companies. There is little to choose between the two performances, both being beautifully sung and shaped, qualities that are evident in the rest of each programme. Nor, indeed, are the couplings much help in the selection process, since the Mass is the sole duplication. Both discs contain six of the 12 deeply felt Madrigals Hindemith composed in 1958. I have to say that I would have preferred all 12 to be recorded together, and do not find the early Lieder nach alten Texten (1923) on Chandos a sufficient makeweight, delightful though they are. Globe offer more in the lovely Rilke Chansons (1939) and the four male choruses, written between 1929 and 1939 to words by Whitman, Gottfried Benn (librettist of Hindemith’s oratorio Das Unaufhorliche), Holderlin and Nietzsche. Chandos’s sound is fuller, but Globe’s is still very good. If you want just one disc of Hindemith’s a cappella choral music, then go for Globe; but the Mass is worth having twice for its own sake, let alone in completing the Madrigal set.'
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