[.ca] Four Temperaments; Nobilissima

Hindemith Rules!:
Hindemith rules! This is the finest Hindemith recording I own. Released on the Delos label, "The Four Temperaments" is royally played, DePriest the fiery wizard, and resounding piano work by Carol Rosenberger. Balanchine chose this music years ago, but it has remained much more than a ballet. What a score! Another ballet score, "Nobilissima visione" is a resplendent work, an outgrowth of Hindemith's encounter with the frescos of Giotto. Again, Rosenberger's piano work is really fine, and the Royal Philharmonic is gritty and right-there-in-the-moment. I can't stress too much the first-rate work of the RPO, DePriest keeps them luminous. The stature of these works is treated so honorably by these folks that the listening never grows old. An exciting recording. Highest recommendation.

• Theme
• Melancholy
• Sanguine
• Phlegmatic
• Choleric
• Introduction And Rondo
• March And Pastorale
• Passacaglia