PAUL HINDEMITH (1895-1963)

 

Clarinet Quintet

 

Quartet for Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano (1938)

Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1939)

Drei leichte Stücke for Cello and Piano (1938)

Quintet for Clarinet, two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 30 (1955)

 

Spectrum Concerts Berlin:

Annette von Hehn - violin

Elisabeth Glass - violins

Hartmut Rohde - viola

Frank Dodge - cello

Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer - clarinet

Ya-Fei Chuang - piano

 

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.

 

Naxos 8572213