Wolfgang Koch/Kurt Streit/Manuela Uhl/Vienna SO/Bertrand de Billy (Naxos, Blu-ray or 2 DVDs) The visionary story of an artist caught up in social turmoil still resonates in this superbly conducted ...

The New York City Opera and its enterprising director and principal conductor, Christopher Keene, deserve our congratulations for temerariously opening the new season with Paul Hindemith’s Mathis der ...

A 2012 production of Paul Hindemith's opera "Mathis der Maler" at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna Austria directed by Keith Warner with set design by Johan Engels. Hindemith created a suite of music ...

It has been 20 years since the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed Paul Hindemith’s “Mathis der Maler” Symphony, too long considering the stature of the piece but perhaps not surprising considering ...

I vividly recall the first time I heard the great (albeit brief) Alleluia Duet at the close of Tableau 6 of Mathis der Maler (1933 35). I had located a full score of the opera and, armed with my ...

Mathis der Maler (Matthias the Painter) was Paul Hindemith’s masterpiece and artistic manifesto. In it he uses episodes from the life of the painter Matthias Grünewald (c. 1475 – 1530), the creator of ...

Hindemith: Symphony, Mathis der Maler; Trauermusik for viola and strings; Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber. Nielsen: Symphonies No. 4 (Inextinguishable) and 5 (San Francisco ...

Konzertmusik BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Martyn Brabbins, Conductor Paul Hindemith, Composer Mathis der Maler BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Paul Hindemith, Composer Martyn Brabbins, Conductor ...

We're lucky to hear Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler on the radio, because it was originally banned by the Nazi regime. Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra in the second movement, ...

PARIS—Maybe it's because Paul Hindemith's 1938 opera "Mathis der Maler" (Mathis the Painter) is rarely performed that director Olivier Py decided to pull out all the stops when he got what may be a ...