Mathis der Maler by Lindberg, M., Hindemith, vie. 30 sep 2022, De (2022/2022), Director Susanna Mälkki, Musiikkitalo, Helsinki, Finlandia

Magnus Lindberg's Violin Concerto has attracted a forest of respectful reviews that compare it favourably to its iconic brethren: “charged with a Sibelius-like sense of radiating light” (The Times) and “manages to balance poetry with virtuosity, in ways that can almost stand comparison with Berg” (Gramophone). Paul Hindemith derived a robust symphony from his opera Mathis der Maler that was enthusiastically welcomed by the public in Berlin in 1934. Just a month after its premiere, the Nazi regime responded and blacklisted the magnificent symphony, the opera and their composer.