Hindemith: Das Marienleben, Op. 27
Yvonne Friedli; Contantin Alex
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Yvonne Friedli; Contantin Alex
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"The greatest song cycle ever written" - Glenn Gould is very unequivocal in his judgement of Paul Hindemith's Das Marienleben, based on a collection of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke. The notorious bourgeois terror, then only 27 years old, shows a very different, internalised side here. "There is something in these songs that forces and fascinates the listener beyond all habits of conventional song manner," wrote a reviewer in 1923, and to this day there is nothing to add. Yvonne Friedli and Constantin Alex make it palpable in their sensitive interpretation.
"Swiss soprano Yvonne Friedli shows herself equal to Hindemith's demands […]. There's a focus and concentration to her reading that is rewarding, and Constantin Alex is a fine, sensitive partner […]. The final three songs, describing Maria's death, [achieve] tragic intensity as they should and must." – Gramophone
Tracklisting
Laefer Quartet
Lina Tur Bonet, Musica Alchemica
Christophe Coin; Orquesta Barroca De Sevilla
Vladimir Fedosseyev/Tschaikowsky Symphony Orchestra
Solomon's Knot
Soloists; Cappella Amsterdam; Orch Of The 18th C; Bruggen
Rodin Quartett
Miriam Feuersinger; Capricornus Consort Basel
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Franco Fagioli; Julia Lezhneva; Stefan Plewniak; Orchestre de l'Opera Royal
Alice Lackner/Philip Mayers
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; Hertha Klust; Walter Welsch; Rudolf Wille
Anna Lucia Richter, Gurzenich Orchestra Cologne, Jordan de Souza
Schola Romana Ensemble
Richard Resch; Ensemble La Silla