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Hindemith: Complete Works for Violin & Piano

Hindemith: Complete Works for Violin and Piano

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Recorded for the first time on one album, this release features Hindemith’s complete works for violin and piano and the rarely recorded “Kleine Sonata” for Viola D’amore and piano. Hindemith’s reputation as a master composer, viola virtuoso and dominant pedagogue — who, being able to play practically every standard instrument (and a few non-standard ones), expected the same from his students — has tended to obscure the fact that he first came to attention not as a composer or violist but as a violinist. Roman Mints has had a lifelong love of the works of Paul Hindemith, which began when he was a young violinist, studying in Moscow in the 1980s. He says “This music, written not just before I was born but closer to the time of my grandparents’ birth, felt completely contemporary, and daringly advanced in its sound — and not just to me, as it turns out: 30 years on, Hindemith is still regarded by concert programmers as too difficult for the wider public. I put Sonata in D on the stand. I was gripped by the first subject, constructed from seconds and sevenths, marked to be played ‘with stony defiance.’ I was never the same again and he became my window into contemporary music.”

Roman Mints (violin)
Alexander Kobrin (piano)

Tracks:

    SONATA FOR VIOLIN & PIANO IN E FLAT, Op.11 No.1 (1918)

  1. I Frisch (4’36)
  2. II Im Zeitmaß eines langsamen, feierlichen Tanzes (4’52)
  3. SONATA FOR VIOLIN & PIANO IN D, Op.11 No.2 (1918)

  4. I Lebhaft (6’55)
  5. II Ruhig und gemessen (7’41)
  6. III Im Zeitmaß und Charakter eines geschwinden Tanzes. Frisch und stets bewegt (5’04)
  7. SONATA FOR VIOLA D’AMORE & PIANO, “KLEINE SONATE”, Op.25 No.2 (1922)

  8. I Mäßig schnell. Lustig (1’35)
  9. II Sehr langsam (7’33)
  10. III Sehr lebhaft (3’42)
  11. SONATA FOR VIOLIN & PIANO IN E (1935)

  12. I Ruhig bewegt (3’32)
  13. II Langsam – Sehr lebhaft (6’25)
  14. TRAUERMUSIK (1936)

  15. I Langsam (3’25)
  16. II Ruhig bewegt (0’45)
  17. III Lebhaft (1’07)
  18. IV Sehr langsam (1’50)
  19. MEDITATION, FROM THE BALLET “NOBILISSIMA VISIONE” (1938)

  20. Meditiation, from the Ballet “Nobilissima Visione” (3’58)
  21. SONATA FOR VIOLIN & PIANO IN C (1939)

  22. I Lebhaft (2’27)
  23. II Langsam (4’25)
  24. III Fuge. Ruhig bewegt (7’12)

Roman Mints Recordings:

  • Hindemith: Complete Works for Violin and Piano
  • Elena Langer: Landscape With Three People
  • Dance of Shadows
  • DOBRINKA TABAKOVA: STRING PATHS
  • The Leaden Echo
  • Exodus
  • Mozetich | Langer | Schnittke
  • Roman Mints: Game Over
  • Transformations

“…what really matters is his ability to work with each of the selections on the composer’s own terms. There is no questioning the technical skill he brings to each of the pieces he performs. More important, however, is his acute awareness of where the music actually resides beneath the surface level of all the marks on the score pages.”—Examiner.com

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