Hindemith conducts Symphonic Metamorphoses 1/4

[MrGUILLERMOPLAZA]

Excelente música, muy original, propia de la modernidad.

[Mrbr0w]

@BoWThunder21 what school do you go to? Cause mine is too!! :D

[PTCello]

this is really one of the great pieces of the last 100 years. If only his cello pieces were half as good!

[1violaplayr]

Truly virtuosic viola part - almost harder than the trickiest bits of Schwanendreher!

[BoWThunder21]

yeah, my high school wind ensemble is playing this.

[MsPandaRosa]

There's a faint nightmarish quality about the piece, but the kind you can't walk away from. Besides the nightmare does want to be friends, tells me "Look kid, you gotta face your fears!" and then asks me to stay for tea.

Weird image, but then I'm weird. This isn't for everyone, but is worth the time to listen more than once.

[PTCello]

@MsPandaRosa

Beautiful, like Peanut Butter.

This isn't music for the shower scene, but it's not music for Bambi, either.

I love it...

I love peanut butter, too!

[AZWozzeck]

I enjoyed playing this piece. The contrabassoon part is nice.

[oboechik96]

it is amazing...the oboe is too rigid for my taste though...i suppose it is hindemith though. i would assume that's how he wanted it played. interesting. 

[MsPandaRosa]

@oboechik96

You have good ears, must be attuned to the oboe? My uncle played oboe when in high school.

[ipmoic]

@chu10rro--What is the original piece from which these themes were taken?

I was always under the impression that Weber's original themes came from various works.

[CrisValenzuela]

@ipmoic - Check out the Turandot overture.

[willgeek]

WOW the Master took this ALOT faster than his metronome marking...and then he keeps getting faster! Wonder if that was what he really intended, if it was just getting caught up in the moment (which would have been a good thing, of course)....or did the record company demand this lightning speed because of timing limits? Anyway, thanks for posting, I'm studying this score for a session with the Arizona Repertory Orchestra in a month, and this really was illuminating...obviously!

[chu10rro]

Today I listened on the radio the original piece by C.M. von Weber. Hindemith, through these symphonic metamorphoses, borrowed Weber's simple (and kind of weird) themes and developed them so well and dramatically that this work is one of my favorite symphonic pieces in all the orchestral repertoire.

[ballamane6]

my fault didnt look in that box

-thanks :)

[ballamane6]

does anyone know what orchestra this is?

[shellac1925]

Look in the info box.

[joosangbai]

@ballamane6

Berlin Phil

[joosangbai]

@ballamane6

Berlin Phil

[shellac1925]

@joosangbai That comment was from 9 months ago. Furthermore, the orchestra is listed on the info panel.

[PENNSY671E]

I've heard several performances and I think this 1st movt. w/Hindemith conducting is the fastest. The orchestra is top-notch.. They had to be with Furtwangler who had been at the helm for many years. He was known for his erratic conducting style and unpredictably wild tempos.

[trumpeterswain]

Hindemith took this movement at quite a clip. Always interesting to hear the tempo and other interpretive aspects of the compoer's own performance.

[Dbsusan]

While being somewhat familiar with Hindemith I was somehow totally unaware of this work until I heard mvt. 4 on the radio conducted by Bernstein. Stunning stuff! Thanks for posting it.

[snaaptaker]

OMG!!! What a treasure!!

I love this piece, and to hear Hindemith,himself, conduct it---WOW!!

Thanks so much for this.