R. Strauss - Tone Poems 2: Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Apparently it was only after he finished his one-act opera InchMörder, Hoffnung der FrauenInch (Murder, Hope of Women) Op. 12 (text by Oskar Kokoschka) that Hindemith hit on the plan for a triptych consisting of that work and two others. The one-act opera InchDas Nusch-NuschiInch Op. 20 (text by Franz Blei), the second work in this series, was not completed until a year after InchMurder, Hope of WomenInch; Hindemith finished the second opera on 14 August 1920. In contrast InchSancta SusannaInch Op. 21 (text by August Stramm) was already finished on 5 February 1921. Hindemith probably discovered the texts by Blei and Stamm simultaneously, and immediately recognized the possibility of extending and continuing the theme of InchMurder, Hope of WomenInch with these two other pieces. It was thus that a triptych of one-act operas closely connected in their thematic content came into being. The three works deal with the same subjects from three fundamentally different points of view. The general themes include sexuality, culture, punishment, violence, and transfiguration.

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