SIX CHANSONS (Paul Hindemith)

[MatsHelgesson]

Nice! Do check out our version of the same piece on my channel :)

[rjroucher]

I sang this in the Brandeis University Choir in about '81 or '82- and it's still with me. haunting.

[Kippsky45]

This piece (as with most of Hindemith's music) is deceptively difficult. but once you nail it, you've got it. Well done.

[Zobeck331]

Westminster Choir -Joseph Flummerfelt - Princeton NJ

[justaguy2304]

Ah, did this junior year of highschool in chorale. It's a wonderful piece. Difficult and beautiful indeed!

[tigerguardguy2012]

I sang this my freshmen year of choir at McNeese State University. it was a small group. 2 per voice part. yall did an excellent job!!

[betho055]

@tigerguardguy2012 Thanks dude!!

[reddragonpsi]

@tigerguardguy2012 I sung this at McNeese State in the Heritage Chorale. I think the year was 1998 or 1999.

[emotecontrol]

@Lord: it's not unattainable for a university-level choir. I think we did a pretty good job of this suite a few years ago, with only about 25 of us.

[TheLordvictory]

Excellent rendition of this piece. The best recording I've ever heard of this (and about 20 other Hindemith acappella pieces, including the last work he wrote in 1963 the Mass) is on CD Globe 5125 done by the Netherlands Chamber Choir conducted by Uwe Gronostay. Would love to see this stuff performed live, but it's perhaps too technically challenging for all but the best choral groups.

[cinestar2]

oh that was great, we sang puisque tous passe and verger in our choir, and we fucked it up every perfomance... :-) it was wonderful though.

[TicTacT0e3inarow]

Puisque tout passe starts at 3:10

[twoclippedwings]

Difficult & beautiful. Thank you!

[betho055]

Welcome ;-)

[ferdecla]

que belleza! es una grabación bastante antigua, no?

[betho055]

Westminster Choir at Spoleto Festival U.S.A. (1996)

[ferdecla]

ah! no, no es tan antigua como creia, yo escuche hace mucho una en vinilo :-) - y me pareció que era esta.

Una verdadera obra de arte y muy buen gusto en la interpretación!

[lilyofthelord]

what group is performing this? it sounds wonderful.

[betho055]

Wesminster Cathedral Choir

[Scylla99]

Respecto a lo de las armonías frencesas y la austeridad; un ejemplo totalmente contrario, son las Trois Chansons de Debussy y Ravel. Obras complejas, ricas en sonoridades y texturas armónicas, aparte de ser ricas en variantes rítmicas y melódicas. Es en referencia a esos ejemplos corales que comento respecto a Hindemith y Bartók.

Se subestima un poco al instumento coro; homofonía, poco desarrollo creativo de motivos y demás, como si no se pudieran hacer cosas mas extremas.

[guitars2112]

brilliant, thanks.

[journalkeeper]

THANK YOU SO MUCH. I have been looking for the complete collection of these pieces.

[betho055]

U r welcome! ;)

[Scylla99]

Hay algo que no comprendo aún; ¿porqué la maestría de algunos de los grandes compositores (Hindemith, Bartók, etc)se vé mermada ante el instrumento coral? Son muy pocos, la verdad sea dicha, y otros no salen bien librados.

Gracias por subir las "Six Chansons"

[piparundrun]

Cierto. A veces los que escriben bien para instrumentos no escriben bien para voces (como Beethoven) o viceversa (primer Verdi) o hacen bien ambas cosas (Mozart,Brahms) pero en este caso no podemos hablar de "merma" de la maestría. Aquí ha sabido asimilar y hacer suya la austeridad y armonía francesas en servicio de la poesía única de Rilke. Otra cosa es que esperemos de él algo más "sofisticado" o "difícil", que ante tales poemas no vendría a cuento. Aquí la sencillez es obligatoria.