The greatest strength of Oehms Classics' live recording of the Hamburg Staatsoper 2005 production of Mathis der Maler is the supple and dramatic conducting of Simone Young, the Australian general manager of the company. The score contains some of Hindemith's most overtly romantic and emotionally expressive music, as well as some extended passages that sound like academic note-spinning. Young is remarkably successful in accentuating the score's moments of sensuality, such as the opening "Concert of Angels," and manages to ...
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The greatest strength of Oehms Classics' live recording of the Hamburg Staatsoper 2005 production of Mathis der Maler is the supple and dramatic conducting of Simone Young, the Australian general manager of the company. The score contains some of Hindemith's most overtly romantic and emotionally expressive music, as well as some extended passages that sound like academic note-spinning. Young is remarkably successful in accentuating the score's moments of sensuality, such as the opening "Concert of Angels," and manages to keep the dramatic momentum up during the more pedestrian passages. The set's major weakness is the wobbly intonation of Falk Struckmann in the title role. He's dramatically forceful and is a charismatic protagonist, but Hindemith's non-triadic harmonies require absolute precision of intonation to keep from sounding like mush, and Struckmann falls short on that count; it's hard to forget Fischer-Dieskau's pure, virile singing on the Deutsche Grammophon's LP of excerpts conducted by...
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