Composer: Paul Hindemith, Georg Carl Zulehner
Performer: Marie-Christine Haase, Alexander Spemann, Michael Dahmen, LandesJugendChor Rheinland-Pfalz
Orchestra: Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz
Conductor: Hermann Bäumer
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: 2021
Catalogue: 555257-2
Release: CPO
Size: 472 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Hindemith: Als jüngst der Flieder mir im Garten blüht, Wq. 455
01. Vorspiel
Hindemith: Sinfonische Metarmorphosen nach Themen von Carl-Maria von Weber, Wq. 404
02. I. Allegro
03. II. Turandot. Scherzo
04. III. Andantino
05. IV. Marsch
Hindemith: Mainzer Umzug, Wq. 296
06. I. Zweitausend Jahr sind wenig Zeit
07. II. Hier sehe mer se voriwwergleite
08. III. So e freundlich Auskunft soll mer nit verwerfe
09. IV. Der Gensfleisch, der Schöffer und der Frust
10. V. Wo aach in der Weltgeschicht passiert
11. VI. Die Erzbischöfe nahen schon
12. VII. Ohne Kunst und Gelehrsamkeit
13. VIII. Was der Goethe da beschrieb
14. IX. Das ist das große Heer der Schatten
15. Zulehner: Narrhalla-Marsch
On 23 June 1962, in the Mainz City Theater, Paul Hindemith conducted the premiere of a commissioned work that he had composed together with the writer and dramatist Carl Zuckmayer for the two thousandth anniversary of the former Roman castellum ‘Mogontiacum.’ In their Mainzer Umzug the two authors had the citys extraordinarily long history, from the Celts to current times, march before the minds eye of the public, whose members were delightfully amused by the explanations given by the commentators in dialect and at the end applauded all the participants with tremendous ovations. Despite this success, the Mainzer Umzug has continued to the present day to be a rarity in the catalogue of Hindemiths works. After two repeat performances in Vienna and Berlin, it disappeared into the publishers archive until the conductor Hermann Bäumer again brought it into public view one and a half years ago. This General Music Director of the Mainz State Theater introduces his most recent cpo release with this practically forgotten parade, continues with the popular Symphonic Metamorphoses of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber and the prelude to the Requiem When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloomd, and rounds things off with a stylistically genuine bonus that is an absolute must: the Narrhalla-Marsch with which the military musician Georg Karl Zulehner, one of the founding fathers of the Mainz Carnival Society (MCV), created the ‘theme song’ for all female and male Carnival revelers.