Neoclassical composer Paul Hindemith thought composers can simultaneously inspire performers and move an audience. Hindemith described this selflessness as reaching a higher spiritual plane. This hour ...
Katie Derham presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Markus Stenz in concert last month. Music by Wagner, Hindemith and Weber's 1st Clarinet Concerto with BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, ...
Eighty years is a long time for a major work by a major composer to wait for its premiere. But these things happen -- especially when a cranky commissioner is involved. Hindemith's "Piano Music with ...
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Clarinetist Bruce Yeh and pianist Easley Blackwood play the opening movement from the Sonata for Clarinet and Piano by Paul Hindemith. And more Hindemith is ahead later in the hour, when we join the ...
To German Nazis he is merely a “noise maker” and his U. S. patroness is almost stone deaf. Nevertheless, Paul Hindemith is a god to many a musical modern and his U. S. debut in Washington. D. C. last ...
In October 1929 Hindemith stepped in to give the first performance of Walton’s 'Viola Concerto', after his intended soloist rejected it. Walton was in Hindemith’s debt, which he repaid with this. The ...
Although the main focus of this new album is the pair of Hindemith works, it is arguably the Schnittke Concerto that dominates attention. Written in 1979, it is a viscerally exciting, compellingly ...