Wergo present the first recording of Paul Hindemith's Plöner Musiktag [The Plön Music Day]. This educational work has not been heard as a whole in Germany since its world première 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’:
"I hope, on the one hand, that this music is perceived as a highlight of Hindemith's educational oeuvre and among his complete works", says conductor Jobst Liebrecht. "On the other hand, I hope for the Hans Werner Henze Music School or, in general, for the educational policy in Berlin that people remember the roots and ideals with which the music school movement began, and that they move forward from the right sense of tradition."

Plöner 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 Plön, Schleswig-Holstein, in June 1932, where he made music with the pupils.