Hindemith: Nobilissima Visione

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Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony prove ideal exponents, capturing the essence of the music in a searing performance, and making the Five Pieces - despite their pedagogical origin - more than... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2014 More…

Release Date: 30th Jun 2014
Catalogue No: 8572763
Label: Naxos
Length: 58 minutes

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Hindemith: Nobilissima Visione

Work length43:56

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Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Gerard Schwarz

I. Einleitung und Lied des Troubadour

Track length3:28

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II. Tuchkaufer und Bettler

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III. Der Ritter

Track length1:57

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IV. Marsch

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V. Erscheinung der drei Frauen

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VI. Festmusik

Track length2:41

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VII. Schluss des Festes

Track length4:36

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VIII. Meditation

Track length5:49

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IX. Geigenspiel. Der Wolf

Track length3:55

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X. Kargliche Hochzeit

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XI. Incipiunt laudes creaturarum

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Hindemith: Schulwerk, 5 Pieces for String Orchestra, Op. 44, No. 4

Work length14:26

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Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Gerard Schwarz

I. Langsam

Track length3:25

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II. Langsam - Schnell

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III. Lebhaft

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IV. Sehr langsam

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V. Lebhaft

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A series of powerful, largely radical works in the early 1920s saw Hindemith established as Germany’s leading young composer. In 1936 he was asked by choreographer and dancer Léonide Massine to collaborate on a ballet project and Hindemith proposed scenes from the life of St Francis of Assisi. The resulting ballet, Nobilissima Visione (The Noblest Vision), is a work of lyricism, elegy and majesty. This is the first recording of the complete ballet score, not the three-movement concert suite that Hindemith later extracted.

The Five Pieces for String Orchestra is an earlier, spirited work dating from 1927.

Internationally recognised for his moving performances, innovative programming and extensive catalogue of recordings, American conductor Gerard Schwarz serves as music director of the All-Star Orchestra, music director of the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina and Jack Benaroya conductor laureate of the Seattle Symphony. His considerable discography of nearly 350 releases showcases his collaborations with some of the world’s greatest orchestras including Philadelphia Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, London Symphony, Orchestre National de France, and Seattle Symphony among others. In his nearly five decades as a respected classical musician and conductor, Schwarz has received hundreds of honours and accolades including Emmy Awards, Grammy® nominations, ASCAP Awards, and the Ditson Conductor’s Award.

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October 2014

Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony prove ideal exponents, capturing the essence of the music in a searing performance, and making the Five Pieces - despite their pedagogical origin - more than a mere filler.

October 2014

what appeals here is that Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony play it as a theatre score, so the familiar episodes from the concert suite...sound quite different played by a smaller band in context...overall one is surprised by how much invention is in the music Hindemith left out of the suite.

27th July 2014

It’s vintage Hindemith, very much in the spiritual vein of his opera Mathis der Maler, but as ever displaying his mastery of instrumentation, texture and orchestral drama. Schwarz’s Seattle players will delight Hindemithians.

Classical Music

Hindemith fans will know the suite he extracted from Nobilissima Visione; they will not know the 25 minutes he opted not to include...It gets a fine performance here.

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