![]() ![]() Discovery CD: Jean-Paul Jeannotte, tenor (Die schöne Mülllerin) $10.00 $7.00.LSM October 2021 (Walter Boudreau/Rising Stars) $12.00.The Science Behind Why Classical Music Is Good for Mental Health posted on Octo| under Classical Music, Education.Lebrecht Weekly | Jean Sibelius: Orchestral songs (LAWO) posted on Septem| under Classical Music, Lebrecht Weekly.Margot and Rudi: were they lovers? posted on Septem| under Lebrecht Weekly.Lebrecht Weekly | Gustav Mahler: 5th symphony (Pentatone) posted on Septem| under Classical Music.Lebrecht Weekly | Franz Schubert: String quintet/Quartettsatz (Chandos) posted on Septem| under Lebrecht Weekly.Sign on to the blogfeed: Visit the website: I’ve had her Ludus in the background all week and, while I can’t pretend to love the work, I can’t help but admire Hindemith’s morning exercises, his oh-so-German devotion to the precise placement of nuts and bolts and Laretei’s unflinching turn of the family screwdriver. Laretei treats Hindemith with appropriate austerity, no flirty smiles, no lapses of concentration (dinner at the Bergmans must have been fun). She has technique to spare and a feel for mood that few piano players can replicate. Why she is not better known I cannot figure. The pianist in this rare recording, reissued from 1965, is the Estonian refugee Käbi Laretei who, in Sweden, became the first wife of the film drector Ingmar Bergman. Like a rattler, you know it’s there but you don’t dare look. The 1943 Ludus Tonalis set for solo piano, premiered by Artur Schnabel in Chicago that year, is Hindemith’s attempt at a Goldberg Variations, contrapuntal as a dyspeptic snake, turning this way and that, striking without warning. ![]()
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