The chamber music pieces on this disc show how richly satisfying Hindemith’s music can be.

By turns passionate, deeply moving and humorous, each work which features the clarinet explores the wind instrument’s expressive potential, whether through lyrically arching melodies, passages of lilting innocence or fiery spirit.

In the Three Easy Pieces for Cello and Piano Hindemith demonstrates mastery through restraint.

Spectrum Concerts Berlin has also recorded two acclaimed discs of music by Hindemith’s contemporary and fellow exile Ernst Toch for Naxos (8559324 and 8559282).