{"id":30654,"date":"2023-07-24T12:11:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T10:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/?p=186820"},"modified":"2023-07-24T12:40:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T10:40:06","slug":"a-guide-to-hindemiths-mathis-der-maler-symphony-and-its-best-recordings","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/a-guide-to-hindemiths-mathis-der-maler-symphony-and-its-best-recordings\/","title":{"rendered":"A guide to Hindemith\u2019s Mathis der Maler Symphony and its best recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erik Levi explains how Matthias Gr\u00fcnewald\u2019s powerful paintings inspired Hindemith’s symphonic masterpiece, Mathis der Maler Symphony and finds the very best recordings <\/p>

By Erik Levi\n \t\t<\/p>

2023-07-24 10:11:58<\/p>

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For a brief period, Paul Hindemith appeared to have the musical world at his feet. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Internationally acclaimed during the early 1930s as a pedagogue and outstanding viola player, Paul Hindemith<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s position as the leading German composer<\/a><\/strong> of the younger generation seemed unassailable after securing prestigious commissions for new orchestral works from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic in 1930 and \u201932. <\/span><\/p>\n

Alongside this breakthrough, he had cast off his earlier reputation as a musical iconoclast, modifying his creative outlook to embrace a more accessible style.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What is Mathis der Maler Symphony<\/em> about?<\/h2>\n
A comparison of the subject matters of the two operas that frame this period neatly illustrates Hindemith\u2019s significant change of direction.<\/span><\/p>\n
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