Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis & other orchestral works

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PAUL HINDEMITH
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis & other orchestral works
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins

[ Hyperion / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 1 November 2013

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This album contains Hindemith's most popular orchestral works, including the Balanchine-choreographed Symphonic Metamorphosis, performed with lapidary precision and great empathy by Hyperion regulars the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins, who have proved themselves consummate interpreters of this composer. Countermanding his reputation a composer of grim, gritty music, this is Hindemith at his most genuinely enjoyable-as Gavin Plumley writes in his informative booklet notes: 'Hindemith's music is both intelligible and intellectual, as entertaining as it is finely wrought'.

'This is ideal repertoire for the BBCSSO, with its beefy lower strings, its bright, biting brass and searing violins' (The Guardian)

"This fine disc from Martyn Brabbins and the BBCSSO makes an eloquent riposte to all that nonsense [Nazi claims of Hindemith's degeneracy], illustrating in the Symphonic Metamorphosis and the Konzertmusik for brass and strings that Hindemith could be both warmly entertaining and bracingly intellectual at the same time." The Observer, 24th November 2013 ****

"Brabbins and co relish the contrast between abrasive, declaratory brass and singing, soaring strings in the Konzertmusik...The Mathis is entirely worthy of this oft-recorded masterpiece, but the Weber Metamorphosis is the highlight, one of Hindemith's most attractive works, delivered with rhythmic bite and colouristic flair." Sunday Times, 1st December 2013

"Hindemith's courageousness inspired music of great luminosity, a quality certainly captured by Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Scottish Symphony...if the BBC Scottish Symphony is never going to match the smoothness of, say, the Berlin Philharmonic...the new performances are no less memorable." Five Stars BBC Music

"The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra audibly relish the challenges of each work and turn in immaculate perforrmances of each, caught in superb sound by Mike Clements...Brabbins's interpretation have good rhythmic thrust and drive." Gramophone

Tracks:

Konzertmusik for brass and strings Op 50
Symphony 'Mathis der Maler'
Symphonic Metamorphosis after themes by Carl Maria von Weber