Music of Resistance, Part 1
By Ralph Graves
This coming Wednesday, Feb. 5, Analog Masters presents the music of resistance.
“Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.” — Heinrich Heine.
Paul Hindemith responded to the Nazi burning of books, including Heine’s, with his anti-Fascist opera Mathis der Maler. Realizing the opera could never be performed in Nazi Germany, he prepared a Symphony based on it which was courageously premiered in Berlin by Wilhelm Furtwangler.
We hear the Symphony and Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s heart-wrenching 1939 Violin Concerto on the first program in an occasional series devoted to Music of Defiance.
Analog Masters
Wednesdays at 9:00 am and 4:00 pm
exclusively on CharlottesvilleClassical.org
Featured recordings:
Hartmann: Concerto Funebre
Andre Gertler, violin; Karel Ancerl; Czech Philharmonic
Supraphon 1-10-0508 (1968)
Hindemith: Mathis der Maler symphony
Guido Cantelli/NBC Symphony
HMV BLP 1010 (1950)
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis (finale)
Paul Hindemith/Berlin Philharmonic
Deutsche Grammophon (1955)
