Hindemith / Rundfunk Sinfonie / Zagrosek - When Lilacs Last - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In 1946 Hindemith, who became an American citizen in January of that year, composed the Requiem for Robert Shaw's Collegiate Chorale. Whitman's poem had been written on the death of Lincoln. Some parallel events at Roosevelt's death and the excellent interpretation presented Hindemith's work a great success. The recent identification of the Jewish melody Gaza, which appears in large parts of the work, reveals a further meaning It must be seen as Hindemith's musical reaction to the Holocaust, a reaction, whose effect is all the more penetrating and persuasive, because Hindemith himself never revealed the identity of the Gaza melody for the purposes of cheap publicity. Hindemith wrote a Requiem for the living (the survivors), who are obligated to remember and identify themselves with the victims and must transform this historical moment into an imperishable personal experience. Album Tracks 1. PRLD - Berlin Rso/Lothar Zagrosek 2. 1. When Lilacs - Krister St. Hill/Rundfunkchor Berlin/Dietrich Knothe 3. 2. Arioso In the Swamp - Cornelia Kallisch 4. 3. March Over the Breast of the Spring - Krister St. Hill/Rundfunkchor Berlin/Dietrich Knothe 5. 4. O Western Orb - Krister St. Hill/Rundfunkchor Berlin/Dietrich Knothe 6. 5. Arioso Sing on, There in the Swamp - Cornelia Kallisch 7. 6. Song O How Shall I Warble - Krister St. Hill/Rundfunkchor Berlin/Dietrich Knothe 8. 7. Intro and Fugue Lo! Body and Soul! - Rundfunkchor Berlin/Dietrich Knothe 9. 8. Sing on! You Gray-Brown Bird - Cornelia Kallisch/Krister St. Hill 10. 9. Death Carol Come, Lovely and Soothing Death - Rundfunkchor Berlin/Dietrich Knothe 11. 10. to the Tally of My Soul - Krister St. Hill/Rundfunkchor Berlin/Dietrich Knothe 12. 11. Finale Passing the Visions - Krister St. Hill/Cornelia Kallisch/Rundfunkchor Berlin/Dietrich Knothe