Music of Resistance Part 1

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)