Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphoses; Concert Music for Strings and Brass; Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin - Suite

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5	Konzertmusik, for brass &
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7	The Miraculous Mandarin,
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphoses; Concert Music for Strings and Brass; Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin - Suite
1.	Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber, for orchestra 20:59
	Composed by Paul Hindemith
	Conducted by Eugene Ormandy
	Performed by Philadelphia Orchestra
2.	Konzertmusik, for brass & strings, Op. 50 17:06
	Composed by Paul Hindemith
	Conducted by Eugene Ormandy
	Performed by Philadelphia Orchestra
3.	The Miraculous Mandarin, suite for orchestra, Sz. 73a, BB 82 (Op. 19) 20:12
	Composed by Béla Bartók
	Conducted by Eugene Ormandy
	Performed by Philadelphia Orchestra

All Music Guide

Fans of Eugene Ormandy and his Philadelphia Orchestra will embrace this reissue of recordings of Hindemith's "Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber" and "Concert Music for Strings and Brass" and Bartók's "The Miraculous Mandarin Suite." Made late in his career, Ormandy's "Symphonic Metamorphosis" is brilliantly colorful and brightly rhythmic and his "Concert Music" is starkly textured and powerfully tempoed. His "Miraculous Mandarin" is perhaps a bit too garish and possibly a little too gaudy, but it is still extremely dramatic. While old-time fans who remember the younger Ormandy's recordings of the Hindemith works from the '50s may miss their vigor and strength, all ofOrmandy's fans will enjoy the virtuoso playing of the Philadelphia Orchestra, especially as recorded in EMI's staggeringly real late stereo sound and reissued here in bone-crushing and spleen-busting digital. James Leonard