BBC Proms 1995 – Leonard Slatkin introduces & conducts Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Philharmonia Orchestra. And video of Paul Hindemith conducting.

Anderson anecdote: Present at rehearsals for this concert (Henry Wood Hall), during a break, before Enigma was prepared, I suggested to Leonard that he might like to have antiphonal violins for the Elgar… Duly sorted.

Rest of programme: Hindemith’s Concert Music for Strings and Brass (Opus 50, a masterpiece for the Boston Symphony & Koussevitzky that is too little heard) & Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.2 with Leif Ove Andsnes.

And – bonus – here is Hindemith’s Opus 50 with the composer conducting the Chicago Symphony:

In Praise of Paul Hindemith, 1895-1963, on the 50th-anniversary of his death, 28 December 2013 – Where is ‘art’ in all this? And more pertinently to our heading, where is the art of Paul Hindemith?