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Special offer. Hindemith: Kammermusik

Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach

Hindemith: Kammermusik

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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...

Special offer. Hindemith: Kammermusik

Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach

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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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The final volume of Paul Hindemith’s(1895–1963) youthful and fresh Kammermusik series from the 1920s includes Kammermusik Nos. 4–7 performed by Kronberg Academy Soloists and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra under a true Hindemith specialist, Christoph Eschenbach, who has won a Grammy for a previous Hindemith album on Ondine. These four works by Hindemith can be considered as full-bodied concertos for violin, viola, viola d’amore and organ. These work feature four young talented soloists, Stephen Waarts, Rimothy Ridout, Ziyu Shenand Christian Schmitt. Hindemith’s Kammermusik No. 4 (‘Violin Concerto’) is scored for a larger orchestra than its three predecessors and includes 24 instrumentalists. Kammermusik No. 5 (‘Viola Concerto’) the composer premiered himself by playing the solo part. In total, Hindemith performed this work for 85 times during the next 11 years! In a letter, Hindemith described the viola d’amore as “the most beautiful thing that you can imagine in sound”. The composer fell in love with the instrument and wrote his Kammermusik No. 6 with this instrument in mind. Hindemith’s final Kammermusik (No. 7) was written to a commission by the Southwest German Radio: the premiere of this Organ Concerto was transmitted live in 1928. The radio broadcast had a decisive role in the composer’s choice of instrumentation.

Contents and tracklist

I. Signal
Track length1:24
II. Sehr lebhaft
Track length5:47
III. Nachtstück. Mäßig schnelle Achtel
Track length7:07
IV. Lebhafte Viertel
Track length3:05
V. So schnell wie möglich
Track length2:13
I. Schnelle Halbe
Track length4:21
II. Langsam
Track length7:59
III. Mäßig schnell
Track length3:22
IV. Variante eines Militärmarsches
Track length3:05
I. Mäßig schnell, majestätisch - Doppelt so schnell
Track length3:54
II. Langsam
Track length7:31
III. Variationen - IV. Lebhaft, wie früher
Track length6:12
I. Nicht zu schnell
Track length3:26
II. Sehr langsam und ganz ruhig
Track length6:31
III. Tempo Equals 184
Track length6:34

Awards and reviews

  • BBC Music Magazine
    December 2020
    Concerto Choice

December 2020

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 plays the solo part with brilliant attack...Eschenbach has a special feeling for this music, and his project is well worth exploring.

December 2020

As in Vol 1, Eschenbach relishes the music’s wild iconoclasm. Tempos are again lively and throughout he draws marvellous playing from the Kronberg Academy strings and Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra’s winds (the trumpet not least!) and percussion...This really is the Kammermusiken for the 2020s.
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