Hindemith: Das Marienleben, Op. 27
Yvonne Friedli (soprano), Contantin Alex (piano)
Between them they offer a reading of patient conviction and resolve, with the final three songs, describing Maria’s death, achieving tragic intensity as they should and must.
Hindemith: Das Marienleben, Op. 27
Yvonne Friedli (soprano), Contantin Alex (piano)
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Between them they offer a reading of patient conviction and resolve, with the final three songs, describing Maria’s death, achieving tragic intensity as they should and must.
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"The greatest song cycle ever written." - Glenn Gould is very unequivocal in his judgement of Paul Hindemith's Das Marienleben, based on a collection of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke. The notorious bourgeois terror, then only 27 years old, shows a very different, internalised side here. "There is something in these songs that forces and fascinates the listener beyond all habits of conventional song manner," wrote a reviewer in 1923, and to this day there is nothing to add. Yvonne Friedli and Constantin Alex make it palpable in their sensitive interpretation.
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- Yvonne Friedli, Constantin Alex
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October 2023
Between them they offer a reading of patient conviction and resolve, with the final three songs, describing Maria’s death, achieving tragic intensity as they should and must.
