The 26th installment in Profil's Edition Staatskapelle Dresden series of first-time issues of mostly vintage radio broadcast material features two then-contemporary German composers who had fled the Nazi regime in the early '30s in performances immediate to the postwar period. Paul Hindemith, who had served in the German Army during World War I, fled Germany in 1937 and settled in the U.S. in 1940, becoming an American citizen and teaching at Yale. However, Hindemith did find his way back to Europe in the 1950s, dying in ...
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The 26th installment in Profil's Edition Staatskapelle Dresden series of first-time issues of mostly vintage radio broadcast material features two then-contemporary German composers who had fled the Nazi regime in the early '30s in performances immediate to the postwar period. Paul Hindemith, who had served in the German Army during World War I, fled Germany in 1937 and settled in the U.S. in 1940, becoming an American citizen and teaching at Yale. However, Hindemith did find his way back to Europe in the 1950s, dying in Frankfurt in 1963; Ernst Toch, the other composer featured here, fled in 1933 and ultimately settled in Los Angeles; he was never to return to Europe, and at the end of his life believed himself "the most thoroughly forgotten composer in the world." Several other aspects link the two works on this disc to one another; both Hindemith's Die junge magdm, Op. 23/2, and Toch's Die chinesische Flöte, Op. 29, were written in 1922 and both are the semi-legitimate progeny of Gustav Mahler's...
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