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HINDEMITH: MATHIS DER MALER

Wolfgang Koch · Kurt Streit · Charles Reid · Manuela Uhl · Franz Grundheber
Slowakischer Philharmonischer Chor · Wiener Symphoniker · Bertrand de Billy

3CD-Set · C5450 PC: 22 UPC: 845221054506

PAUL HINDEMITH (1895-1963)
MATHIS DER MALER
Oper in sieben Bildern / Opera in seven scenes (1938)
Libretto: Paul Hindemith

MATHIS, Hofmaler des Erzbischofs: Wolfgang Koch
ALBRECHT VON BRANDENBURG, 
Kardinal und Erzbischof von Mainz: Kurt Streit
LORENZ VON POMMERSFELDEN, Domdechant: Martin Snell
WOLFGANG CAPITO, Rat des Kardinals: Charles Reid
RIEDINGER, Ein reicher Mainzer Bürger: Franz Grundheber
URSULA, seine Tochter: Manuela Uhl
HANS SCHWALB, ein Bauernführer: Raymond Very
REGINA, seine Tochter: Katerina Tretyakova
SYLVESTER VON SCHAUMBURG, Offizier: Oliver Ringelhahn
TRUCHSESS VON WALDBURG, Heeresbefehlshaber: Ben Connor
GRÄFIN HELFENSTEIN: Magdalena Anna Hofmann 
DER PFEIFER DES GRAFEN: Andrew Owens
Slowakischer Philharmonischer Chor
WIENER SYMPHONIKER · BERTRAND DE BILLY
 
Mathis der Maler is the central composition of Paul Hindemith’s output for music theater. The reception began with its successful premiere of a symphony of three orchestral parts from the opera, in March of 1934 in Berlin. That was still before the composer was attacked in the National-Socialist press which prompted a defense of Furtwängler’s in a newspaper article titled “The Hindemith Case”. The opera wasn’t premiered until May 1938, in Zurich, where the Hindemith’s had emigrated to, before moving on to the United States. Much as Mathis, who found his political engagement in the Peasant’s War and his calling to paint solely for the glory of God to collide with the expectation to positions himself on religious matters during the Reformation, Hindemith found himself torn between his refusal to propagate for the Nazis, his urge to follow his inner voice, and the demand that he position himself against the regime. These highly acclaimed performances from 2012 at Theater an der Wien with Opera Star Roland Koch in the title role is finally now available as CD-Release.

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