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...opening work of the program, Hindemith's Nobilissima Visione, left absolutely no taste at all: it was just another work from the Hindemith grab-bag, competently performed. The suite contains five selections from an unsuccessful ballet which Hindemith began in 1919 on a commission from Diaghilev. The ballet lay unfinished after the death of Diaghilev until Hindemith completed it with Massine in 1937; the ballet failed a year later. The three movements of the present are all typified by the concluding Passacaglia, which consists of nineteen variations on a six-measure theme. Here Hindemith blurs the distinction between economy...
...Hindemith: Nobilissima Visione (A); Boccherini: Trio No. 3 in E flat, Op. 35 (W); Moussorgsky: Sorochintsy Fair (E); Mendelssohn: Sonata No. 2 for 'Cello (Cap); Kodaly: Marosszek Dances (D); Beethoven: Piano Concerto #3 in C minor...
...four, is a song cycle about a young maiden's life. Says the composer: "I suppose she dies in the end. Nobody knows." The fourth, Nobilis-sima Visione, was known as St. Francis when Massine danced it. "I never go to see the performances," Hindemith added. "I saw Nobilissima once because I had to conduct it." In less melodic days, Atonalist Hindemith wrote an opera (Hin und Zurück) to be performed both forwards and back wards. The Nazis called him a "Kulturbol-schewist noisemaker" and banned his works from Germany. Says Hindemith: "I never was controversial...
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