Music of Resistance Part 1

Written By WTJU Radio
CD case for Hindemith's Symphony, Mathis der Maler, as condycted by Guido Cantelli with the N.B.C. Symphony Orchestra.

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 Charlottesville Classical

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)

WTJU Radio

WTJU is a non-commercial radio station founded in 1955 focused on airing music from across genres (Folk&World, Jazz&Blues, Classical, Rock) and curated by local music lovers.

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