Constantin Alex

Yvonne Friedli & Constantin Alex – Hindemith: Das Marienleben, Op. 27 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:48 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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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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