This disc contains the middle two concertos of Paul Hindemith's five. The Neo-Classical Kammermusik No. 2, Op. 36, No. 1 for piano and twelve solo instruments (1924) and the Konzertmusik for piano, ten brass instruments, and two harps, Op. 49 (1930) are works with very different sounds and personalities.Siegfried Mauser, the pianist, clearly understands Hindemith well enough to present both sides of the dichotomy the disc represents, and is ably accompanied by members of the Radio Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt, conducted by ...
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This disc contains the middle two concertos of Paul Hindemith's five. The Neo-Classical Kammermusik No. 2, Op. 36, No. 1 for piano and twelve solo instruments (1924) and the Konzertmusik for piano, ten brass instruments, and two harps, Op. 49 (1930) are works with very different sounds and personalities.Siegfried Mauser, the pianist, clearly understands Hindemith well enough to present both sides of the dichotomy the disc represents, and is ably accompanied by members of the Radio Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt, conducted by Werner Andreas Albert.The piano in the Kammermusik is generally given a two-voice canonic texture, with the voices interacting with the twelve solo instruments (five woodwinds, four strings, and three brass). The concerto principle of the late Classical and Romantic eras is missing: each voice of the music is integrated within a single contrapuntal texture. Mauser thus is usually adding two new threads to the many already in place in the tapestry of sound. If he were to emphasize his...
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