GUNDULA JANOWITZ (soprano) in the performance of Hindemith's song cycle. which she gave at last year's Salzburg Festival with PETER waters (piano). Rainer Maria Rilke 's poems imagine a 15-part picture of the life of the Virgin Mary , which
Hindemith first put into music in the 1920s and later revised. The second version is the one heard in this recording.
The birth of Mary; The presentation of Mary in the Temple: The
Annunciation: The Visitation; Joseph's suspicion: The
Annunciation to the shepherds: The birth of Christ: Rest during the flight to Egypt; Before the marriage at Cana;
Before the Passion: The Pieta: The Consolation of Mary by the Resurrected Christ; The death of Mary 1, 11, III.
Producer GORDON STEWART