When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd
composer: Paul Hindemith
interpreter: Christer St. Hill - Cornelia Kallisch
booklet writer: Giselher Schubert
choir: Rundfunkchor Berlin
chorus master: Dietrich Knothe
conductor: Lothar Zagrosek
orchestra/ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
A Requiem 'For those we love' after a text by Walt Whitman
Publisher: Wergo
Edition: CD
Order number: WER 62862
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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.
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