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Massively important document.

"Der Schwanendreher, nachdem er hier sein Werke getrieben, dankt herzlichst für die dabei ihm zuteil gewordene Unterstützung. Paul Hindemith 27.1.37"

His final and greatest work

A great theorist and instructor and writer in music.

El comienzo me recuerda a la Obertura de la Flauta Mágica. Se nota que es un Mozart. Excelente obra!!!

S'agit-il du Duo que Mozart destinait à Mikael Haydn , qui n'avait pas pu terminer une commande importante pour raison de santé ?

Is there a full version of this?

Wonderful performance. What “big-hearted” and committed playing: the give him their - considerable - “all”. The CSO’s preeminence has deep roots. And an unusually apt and adept video “capture”. Audio not bad either. Timeless.

I never knew he conducted Bruckner! Pity it wasn’t the entire symphony.

Even in this monophonic television recording you can hear the wonderful acoutics Orchestra Hall had originally. The botched 1966 renovation to install air conditioning deadened the hall so badly they could no longer record there. An unbelievable blunder!

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I played this piece at The Curtis Institute in 1974. It was our first concert of the year, with William Steinberg conducting. It was then that I truly realized how special a place Curtis is.

Eccezion fatta per Shostakovich e Prokofiev.

Dopo Hindemith e Ligeti la Musica è andatz in crisi. Ci vorrà qualche decennio.😢

Somewhere between Ives and shernberg.sp?

Hindemith was primarily a composer who fully understood and exploited the tonal capabilities of each orchestral instrument. The instrumentation of his pieces was imaginative; no one had thought of focusing solely on brass and strings before him. This recording once again highlights his inclination towards surprising twists in his compositions. There is never a dull or uninteresting moment. One listens attentively, eagerly anticipating what is to come. It's the kind of concert attention one desires.

Splendid! But 48 minuts can be a "full concert" as the title says?

Probably my favorite twentieth century composer, but Hindemith pretty much gets ignored.

Hindemith takes a back seat to no other composer with the exception J.S. Bach.

Thanks again.

Thanks for posting this. It's a great historical document, but, that said, it's not a piece I would choose to listen to again.

Wonderful performances. Hindemith could have been a star conductor had his greater talent as a composer not won out. Lucky for us to have this record of both. At the risk of being kicked out of the music cognoscenti club, the Bruckner movement seems to me just the right dose.

Interesting document, thanks for posting. Chicago's strings are strangely depleted on this video, I count the numbers as 12-10-8-6-5. Against the world's loudest brass section, playing Hindemith Konzertstück and Bruckner 7? It may have worked on the recording, sort of, but it couldn't have worked live in the hall. Chicago's string numbers should have been around 16-16-12-12-8. It's also strange that the woodwinds and percussion are onstage for the Hindemith, even though they don't play a note. For the TV cameras, perhaps? Fun to hear the Hindemith though, which I think is one of his best works, and not played very much. Maybe it is because of the non-stop difficulties in all parts. Hindemith gets through it as a conductor, but there are many better versions out there, like the Boston Symph Orch with William Steinberg. Fans of Hindemith's music should check this out.

FANTASTIC, VERY INTERESTING, AND QUITE IMPORTANT. THANKS A LOT. mv

"La più completa espressione del Genio di Alban Berg!" ❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉 Giuseppe Perego Monza 16.2.1962 Grazie

"Dimmi che musica ascolti e ti dirò chi sei"... Giuseppe Perego Monza 16.2.1962

"Ho ascoltato ventenne questo capolavoro al Teatro Manzoni della mia città e da allora l'ho sempre amato!!!" ❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉Giuseppe Perego Monza 16.2.1962 Grazie

"Purtroppo in Italia c'è gente che pensa che la musica sia quella del Festival di Sanremo"... 😢 Giuseppe Perego Monza 16.2.1962

ヒンデミット初めて見た！ 「今日のニュース」(だったかな？)がナチスに嫌われ「画家マチス」の上演が禁止されたのをフルトヴェングラーが「ヒンデミット事件」と新聞に投書したんだっけな？ 「今日のニュース」のバスルームの場面で滴り落ちる水滴の音をピチカートで表現したのが特に気に入らなかったんだっけ？ なんか歴史を目撃してるみたいだわ 多くの作曲家がアメリカに亡命しあとに続く作曲家に影響を与えたとか ただ、ストラヴィンスキーやシェーンベルクが書いた膨大な数の「調性音楽」が行方不明になってるらしい

Wow! Thank you so much for sharing. Such amazing playing. And what an amazing sound. I couldn't quite believe that there were only 6 cellos. Shame it wasn't the whole symphony but what an astonishing historical document.

FIRST MOVEMENT: Ternary Form 0:00 A Section 0:44 B Section 1:03 A Section SECOND MOVEMENT: Ternary Form 1:30 A Section 2:07 B Section 3:07 A Section THIRD MOVEMENT: Ternary Form 3:24 A Section 5:00 B Section 7:41 A Section FOURTH MOVEMENT: Binary Form 9:10 A Section 9:45 B Section 10:06 A Section 10:27 B Section FIFTH MOVEMENT: Ternary Form 11:00 A Section 12:26 B Section 13:37 A Section

It's was so much fun to see Donald Peck principal flute when he was only 33 at that time. I met Donald Peck at the famous Rose Records after a Friday afternoon concert in 1979 and he signed my program for me. I still have that program.

Due Giganti della Musica ❤

Only nine months before his death! Love all his music, especially Sinfonia Serena, which I first heard in 1973 on a record conducted by him.

This interpretation is quite interesting. Not what I expected, but on second thought, it does ring true to the performance practice and general interpretation of his time.

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Hindemith passed away eight months later.

The Hindemith violin concerto was first performed by the Concertgebouw orchestra with their leader as soloist and has never been performed by them since and has never been performed at the BBC Proms, nor has it ever been performed by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra of which I was a member. It was first recorded by Joseph Fuchs and has since been recorded by Oistrakh and others. Such a great piece does not deserve such neglect, but happily Carla Marrero, the brilliant young Spanish violinist, has added it to her repertoire.

Excelent channel, thanks for your uploads.

That's the Chicago Symphony! Vince and Wil were my 🎺 teachers at Northwestern University in 1978. Michael McClary, Professor of Trumpet 🎺, Georgia Perimeter College & GSU

bad intonation..bad entrances...but,,,this is my fav recording of this work

What fun... I always enjoy these variations. And I love this boxy sound for them . Sounds like one of the old Mercurys of the Eastman orchestra. Gomberg sounds almost Central European !

Bravo.

All too brief! :-( Would love to see more of him rehearsing.

Bud!!🌟

Superb interpretation!

Perfecto 💯,👏👏👏👏

Es posible pensar que a hindemith no le interesara bruckner ?

"Arthur Fiedler's Sinfonie..." Not THE Arthur Fiedler from Boston, surely!?