Concertos, Hindemith (composer)
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Special offer. Britten & Hindemith: Violin Concertos
Arabella Steinbacher (violin)
Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Vladimir Jurowski
Steinbacher’s lithe playing, alive to both concertos’ volatilities, is matched by orchestral playing of depth and heart. —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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It’s every bit as exciting as the first volume...[No. 4] opens with a pungent fanfare, its colours stemming from jazz-band instrumentation and the absence of orchestral violins. Stephen Waarts... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, Concerto Choice
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Paul Hindemith / Alfred Schnittke
RecommendedAnna Gourari (piano), Orchestra Dell Svizzera Italiana / Markus Poschner
She extracts a dizzying range of colours from Hindemith’s ingeniously constructed score...The string section of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana under Markus Poschner responds incisively... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2024, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Historical
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Hindemith's series of Kammermusik ('Chamber Music') began in 1921 as an iconoclastic response to the hyperintense emotionalism of German Expressionist music over the previous 15 years. It continued... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1993, Winner - Orchestral
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Voyage of a sea-god
Laurence Perkins (bassoon), Michael Hancock (piano), Amy Thompson (bassoon), Matthew Kitteringham (bassoon), Catriona McDermid (bassoon), Eira Lynn Jones (harp), Susie Mészáros (viola), Michael Escreet (double bass), Carducci Quartet, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, William Goodchild
It’s an extensive programme, encompassing a variety of styles and forces ranging from bassoon solo to small orchestral ensembles. There are some real treats, such as Bantock’s splendidly imaginative... —
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Special offer. Hindemith: Violinkonzert, Symphonic Metamorphosis & Konzertmusik, Op. 50
RecommendedMidori Goto (violin)
North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach
Midori taps into the msuic's vein of anxiety, delivering taut sinewy playing in the outer movements and bringing lyrical eloquence to the more reflective passages...Eschenbach is absolutely... —
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Grammy Awards, 56th Awards (2013), Best Classical Compendium
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Special offer. Hindemith: Kammermusik I-II-III; Kleine Kammermusik
Xi Zhai, Christopher Park, Bruno Philippe, Kronberg Academy Soloists, Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach
Eschenbach’s focus is very fixedly on the earlier, wilder Hindemith in this first disc of a two-volume set...Tempos are swift and lively, the touch light not heavyhanded, relishing the fervid... —
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Hindemith: Clarinet Concerto, Clarinet Quartet & Clarinet Sonata
Sharon Kam (clarinet), Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Cohen, Enrico Pace (piano)
The couplings are, to my mind, even finer than the concerto…I do not know of a stronger rival for the Quartet currently available. —
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Chamber Music
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Hindemith: The Complete Viola Music Volume 3
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Lawrence Power (viola)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, David Atherton
once again [Power] projects splendidly warm and rounded tone, bringing compelling focus to these performances. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2011, Editor's Choice
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