Hindemith Conducts Hindemith The Complete
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Artist: HINDEMITH,P.
Title: HINDEMITH CONDUCTS HINDEMITH
Street Release Date: 02/10/2004
<Domestic or Import: Domestic
Genre: CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
- Amazon Sales Rank: #114257 in Music
- Brand: HINDEMITH,P.
- Released on: 2004-02-10
- Number of discs: 3
- Format: Box set
- Dimensions: .24 pounds
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52 of 54 people found the following review helpful.
 Phenomenal performances
By Victor A. Grauer
Hindemith may not have been a Schoenberg or Stravinsky, but at his most inspired he was certainly way up there near the top of the heap, among the greatest composers of the late lamented 20th Century. What these recordings tell us, however, and to me this comes as something of a shock, is that he was also a truly great conductor. All the performances in this set are in my opinion truly extraordinary, among the very best orchestral performances I’ve ever heard — of any music by any composer of any period.
29 of 30 people found the following review helpful.
Hindemith Himself
By Michael B. Richman
“Hindemith Conducts Hindemith: The Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon” is another essential release in Universal’s “Original Masters” series. This 3CD set features the composer himself conducting some of his best known works, including his two Symphonies, Symphonic Metamorphosis, Concerto for Orchestra, and Konzertmusik with Monique Haas on piano. All of the recordings hail from 1954-57 and while they are in mono, the DG sound is clear as a bell. Previously I owned a dozen or so CDs featuring various Hindemith works (performed by conductors Abbado, Bernstein, Blomstedt, Goossens, Kletzki, Kubelik, Szell, etc.), but only one with Hindemith himself conducting his own music (the Violin Concerto with David Oistrakh — see my review). Well if you like a composer and have the ability to hear them conduct their own music, then you should do it, whatever the cost. I mean what would you give to have the opportunity to hear Beethoven or Mozart perform! Luckily in this case you don’t have to fantasize, you just have to buy this affordable, budget-priced box set.
23 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
Lean, clean and unadorned, as Hindemith intended
By S. J. Snyder
Hindemith jumped at the chance to record his major works with Deutsche Grammophon when it was offered in the early 1950s.
First, was his theory of conducting. He felt the conductor should, as much as possible, be “transparent” and not add anything to the music, i.e., through not gesticulating (especially wildly), etc.
Second, he had seen and heard conductors do just that to his works. And he had heard this result in what he considered overconducting.
Now, that doesn’t mean that Hindemith wanted some “native” style of conducting, or even people conducting his works as sight-reading exercises. He expected a piece to be properly understood so that such overconducting was unnecessary.
The result is to be heard here. Now, by “lean and clean,” we’re not not talking Boulez. But, compared to his day and age, to the Furtwaenglers and others, we are talking something almost that spare.
When you hear these CDs, you’ll immediately understand why Hindemith thought that other composers made his music sound too muddy.
These are mono recordings, but in studio in the early and mid 1950s with the Berlin Philharmonic, the baseline sound quality was quite good and the CDs have been well-engineered.
This is an outstanding buy of a great 20th-century composer.
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