Ploener Musiktag : Liebrecht / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, D.Henschel, etc

Hindemith: Ploner Musiktag
based on the original sources, newly arranged by Jobst Liebrecht - First Recording

Morgenmusik
Tafelmusik
Kantate
Abendkonzert

Dietrich Henschel (baritone)
David Reibel (narrator)
membersof the Berlin RSO, Youth Symphony Orchestra of Marzahn-Hellersdorf,
ensembles of the Hans Werner Henze Music School
Berlin Radio Children's Choir and other children's and youth choirs from Berlin
Jobst Liebrecht, conductor

Wergo present the first recording of Paul Hindemith's Ploner Musiktag [The Plon Music Day]. This educational work has not been heard as a whole in Germany since its world premiere in 1932 by the composer himself. Initiated and edited by the conductor Jobst Liebrecht, the musical day was realised in Berlin on 13 October 2008 by the Hans Werner Henze Music School in Marzahn-Hellersdorf (Berlin) as well as the local youth symphony orchestra, supported by several children's choirs from Berlin. Renowned baritone Dietrich Henschel and the musicians of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra supported this ambitious initiative, the aim of which was to bring young musicians and professionals together and approach the composer's ideas ‘playfully’.

Ploner Musiktag sets a whole day to music: the four parts Morgenmusik, Tafelmusik, Kantate and Abendkonzert have been written for different levels of difficulty and instrumentations ? from recorder trio to orchestral piece and three-part choir. Hindemith wrote the work for a four-day stay in a boarding school in Plon, Schleswig-Holstein, in June 1932, where he made music with the pupils.