Hindemith: Das Marienleben, Op. 27
Yvonne Friedli; Contantin Alex
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Yvonne Friedli; Contantin Alex
Description
"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
Marcell Bakonyi; Marian Pop; Lukas Siebert; Sung Kyu Park; Gabriel Fortunas; Ania Jeruc; Julia Ruti
Isabel Schicketanz; Der Musikalische Garten
Lei Meng
Soloists; Gottinger Barockorchester; Antonius Adamske
Julia Fischer; Nils Monkemeyer; Oliver Schnyder Trio
Denis Rouger; figure humaine kammerchor; Hyelin Lee
Jens Barnieck; Jeanette Pitkevica
Ensemble l'Imaginaire
Virtuosi Saxoniae; Ludwig Gut
Tamar Halperin; Andreas Scholl
Schumann Quartet; Anna Lucia Richter
Peter Schrier
Michaela Kaune; Burkhard Kehring
Ludwig Guttler; Virtuosi Saxo
Hermann Hahnel; Gisela May; Ernst Busch; The Ebony Band
Daniel Behle; Schnyder Trio; Klaubautermann Quartet