Paul Hindemith: Vocal Chamber Music - Christiane Oelze / Cornelia Kallisch / Ensemble Villa Musica

Paul Hindemith (Performer), Nina Martinez (Performer), Christiane Oelze (Performer), Martin Ostertag (Performer), Enrique Santiago (Performer), Erno Sebestyen (Performer), Sergio Azzolini (Performer), Thomas Brandis (Performer), Ingo Goritzki (Performer), Jean-Claude Gerard (Orchestra), Rainer Moog (Artist), Cornelia Kallisch (Artist), Hanno Simons (Artist), Gunther Teuffel (Artist), Ulf Rodenhauser (Artist), Ensemble Villa Musica (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Paul Hindemith, Nina Martinez, Christiane Oelze, Martin Ostertag, Enrique Santiago, et al.
• Orchestra: Jean-Claude Gerard
• Audio CD (October 17, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: MD&G Records
• ASIN: B0000021ET
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #503,267 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Melancholie, 4 songs for soprano & string quartet, Op. 13: Die Primeln blühn and grüßen

2. Melancholie, 4 songs for soprano & string quartet, Op. 13: Nebelweben

3. Melancholie, 4 songs for soprano & string quartet, Op. 13: Dunkler Tropfe

4. Melancholie, 4 songs for soprano & string quartet, Op. 13: Traumwald

5. Wie es wär', wenn's anders wär, for soprano, flute, oboe, bassoon & string quartet

6. Des Todes Tod, for mezzo-soprano, 2 violas & 2 cellos, Op. 23a: Gesicht von Tod und Elend

7. Des Todes Tod, for mezzo-soprano, 2 violas & 2 cellos, Op. 23a: Gottes Tod

8. Des Todes Tod, for mezzo-soprano, 2 violas & 2 cellos, Op. 23a: Des Todes Tod

9. Die Junge Magd, song cycle for alto, flute, clarinet & string quartet, Op. 23b: I. Oft am Brunnen, wenn es dämmert

10. Die Junge Magd, song cycle for alto, flute, clarinet & string quartet, Op. 23b: II. Stille schafft sie in der Kammer

11. Die Junge Magd, song cycle for alto, flute, clarinet & string quartet, Op. 23b: III. Nächtens übern kahlen Anger

12. Die Junge Magd, song cycle for alto, flute, clarinet & string quartet, Op. 23b: IV. In der Schmiede dröhnt der Hammer

13. Die Junge Magd, song cycle for alto, flute, clarinet & string quartet, Op. 23b: V. Schmächtig hingestreckt im Bette

14. Die Junge Magd, song cycle for alto, flute, clarinet & string quartet, Op. 23b: VI. Abends schweben blutige Linnen

15. Die Serenaden, little cantata for voice, oboe, viola & cello, Op. 35: Barcarole

16. Die Serenaden, little cantata for voice, oboe, viola & cello, Op. 35: An Phyllis

17. Die Serenaden, little cantata for voice, oboe, viola & cello, Op. 35: Nur Mut

18. Die Serenaden, little cantata for voice, oboe, viola & cello, Op. 35: Duett for viola and violoncello

19. Die Serenaden, little cantata for voice, oboe, viola & cello, Op. 35: Der Abend

20. Die Serenaden, little cantata for voice, oboe, viola & cello, Op. 35: Der Wurm am Meer

See all 22 tracks on this disc

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This review is from: Paul Hindemith: Vocal Chamber Music - Christiane Oelze / Cornelia Kallisch / Ensemble Villa Musica (Audio CD)

This Cd is really a preciosity . Normally we hear the orchestral compositions of Hindemith, in Particular those with a strong Neo Classical accent. In this CD what we have is a complete different thing: now we can found one avant garde composer, with a special taste in choosing texts. The highlights of this record: The Two Song Cycles opus 23 ( a and b) . The First is a Cycle for voice, 2 violas and 2 violoncellos. The Mezzo, and these low instruments are perfect do describe in music " The deaths' death" , and it is very interesting to compare the use Hindemith did of Georg Trakl's wonderful texts in his Cycle " The young maid" with the songs opus 14 by Anton Webern . Both are very expressionists, both have a deep understanding of this wonderful poet, but the means they use is diametrical opposed. Other work very interesting is Melancholie for Soprano and String Quartet. The harmony very different , new and also with something of expressionist .
Not only the repertoire is very interesting in this CD. The performers are fantastic. Christiane Oelze recorded for Deutsche Grammophon all the music Webern wrote for Soprano . We can say she is one specialist in this kind of music. The Mezzo Cornelia Kallisch is also a fantastic singer and the musicians of this ensemble are among the bests in the world : Ingo Goritzky, Thomas Brandis, Enrique Santiago, etc.
If you want to know a more avant garde side of Hindemith this IS the CD. The works here reunited weren't written to be popular. These works are testimony of a refined musician that after 1930 became more and more conservative. Here, in works written between 1917 and 1924, he was at the peak of his creativity.