Word: isenheim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unquestionably a high mark for the remainder of the season to aim at, Dr. Koussevitzky's performance of Hindemith's moving symphony, "Mathis der Maler," was a unique marriage of a composer's conception and an orchestra's performance. Hindemith's re-creation of Matthias' paintings from the Isenheim Alter, the Angelic Concert," the "Entombment," and the "Temptation of St. Anthony," in sound brings out all the unearthly power of the artist's work and a hint of his personal distractions and struggles. In Dr. Koussevitzky's hands, the intense score glowed and shuddered almost hypnotically until the final great...
...medieval art at Baltimore's Walters Gallery. His job is to locate, check and guard artistic treasures. Last fall, before Strasbourg and its vicinity had been cleared of corpses and ruins. Captain Ross found the hiding place of one of the world's greatest medieval paintings, the Isenheim Altar Screen by Matthias Grünewald. The treasure was stored in a vaulted room in Haut-Koenigsbourg Castle, near Colmar, Alsace, 40 miles from Strasbourg...
...newald masterpiece is a polyptych of six hinged wood panels, each depicting scenes from the story of Christ's life. Painted about 1516 for a convent at Isenheim, Alsace, the intense, now-gruesome, now-radiant Altar Screen is easily the most important set of medieval paintings any German produced. Most experts agree that the work ranks above the best of Holbein the Younger, Dürer and Cranach...
...conducted by Eugene Ormandy; Victor; 6 sides). One of the most sinewy of contemporary scores, by a onetime German Kulturbolschewik now living in the U.S. This symphonic suite, taken from Hindemith's opera about 16th-Century Painter Matthias Grünewald, describes three sections of Matthias' great Isenheim Altarpiece: Angelic Concert, Entomb ment, Temptation of St. Anthony. Glow ingly played and recorded...