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Tomasz Konieczny * Paul Hindemith: Cardillac [New CD] Local and historical recording practice andParis 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,