From Hindemith’s jazz-age energy to Schoenberg’s existential angst, and Kurt Weill’s biting satire to Korngold’s neo-Romanticism, this lively recording is a perfect example of the kind of music the ...

It was thanks to Hindemith that Gould received his only Grammy Award – and not for his piano playing. He won for the Best Liner Notes of 1973 with an essay accompanying his recording of the three ...

There is lots to admire as the quintet and pianist capture Paul Hindemith’s best known sonatas to reveal their hidden depths As well as being one of the 20th century’s leading neoclassical composers, ...

Jed Distler introduces a 20th-century cyclic celebration of pianistic polyphony Two years after becoming Professor of Composition at Yale University in 1940, Paul Hindemith began writing a series of ...

Neoclassical composer Paul Hindemith thought composers can simultaneously inspire performers and move an audience. Hindemith described this selflessness as reaching a higher spiritual plane. This hour ...

Eighty years is a long time for a major work by a major composer to wait for its premiere. But these things happen -- especially when a cranky commissioner is involved. Hindemith's "Piano Music with ...

And Hindemith knows and uses this to give Der Schwanendreher a fully-realized range and body. Der Schwanendreher translates to literally to “the swan turner,” a phrase that, in medieval times, ...

If, as Shakespeare famously wrote, every man in his time plays many parts, it should come as no surprise that various observers will see him differently over time. The time span needn’t even be a ...

Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Weber Christoph Eschenbach, Conductor North German Radio Symphony Orchestra Paul Hindemith, Composer Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Christoph Eschenbach, ...

Stephen Johnson explores the relationship between Paul Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis and the themes by Carl Maria von Weber on which it is loosely based. Show more Stephen Johnson explores the ...