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When lilacs last

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.

Country of Pressing	US
Released	1997
Music Genre	Classical
Label	WERGO GERMANY
Condition	New
UPC	4010228628623
SKU	al-4010228628623

1.1 PRLD - Berlin Rso/Lothar Zagrosek
1.2 1. When Lilacs - Krister St. Hill/Rundfunkchor Berlin/Dietrich Knothe
1.3 2. Arioso: In the Swamp - Cornelia Kallisch
1.4 3. March: Over the Breast of the Spring - Krister St. Hill/Rundfunkchor Berlin/Dietrich Knothe
1.5 4. O Western Orb - Krister St. Hill/Rundfunkchor Berlin/Dietrich Knothe
1.6 5. Arioso: Sing on, There in the Swamp - Cornelia Kallisch
1.7 6. Song: O How Shall I Warble - Krister St. Hill/Rundfunkchor Berlin/Dietrich Knothe
1.8 7. Intro and Fugue: Lo! Body and Soul! - Rundfunkchor Berlin/Dietrich Knothe
1.9 8. Sing on! You Gray-Brown Bird - Cornelia Kallisch/Krister St. Hill
1.10 9. Death Carol: Come, Lovely and Soothing Death - Rundfunkchor Berlin/Dietrich Knothe
1.11 10. to the Tally of My Soul - Krister St. Hill/Rundfunkchor Berlin/Dietrich Knothe
1.12 11. Finale: Passing the Visions - Krister St. Hill/Cornelia Kallisch/Rundfunkchor Berlin/Dietrich Knothe