Tomasz Konieczny * Paul Hindemith: Cardillac [New CD] Local Suite en la: VII

Suite en la: VII

* BBC John Peel Sessions

Nothing's a Coincidence

used arias by Giacomelli in his pasticcio Bajazet

originally released in November 1979

Tomasz Konieczny * Paul Hindemith: Cardillac [New CD] Local Suite en la: VIIParis is gripped by fear. A series of murders is leaving a bloody trail through the city. We are talking about E. T. A. Hoffmann's story "Das Fraulein von Scuderi," published in 1819 and often cited as one of the earliest German crime stories. And even though the story is set in the Paris of the time of Louis XIV, the work has a deeply romantic quality, driven by a fascination with genius, coupled with dark passions and terrible crimes. In 1925,