HINDEMITH THE REBEL from the Barbican Centre, London.
Ulf Hoelscher (violin) conductor Andrew Davis
(piano)
Hindemith Dance of the Wooden Dolls; Mdrder, Hoffnung der Frauen
8.25 The Woman in Blue
Frank Whitford tells the extraordinary story of how
Oscar Kokoschka created a life-sized doll in the likeness of Alma Mahler , took it to the opera and restaurants, used it in a series of elaborate fantasies and finally "killed" it.
8.45 Hindemith Violin
Concerto; Symphonic
Metamorphosis of themes by Carl Maria von Weber