Les Vents FranÇais - Hindemith: Wind Sonatas

Warner Germany

£11.74

Format: CD
ICPN: 0190295044411
Release Date: 2nd April 2021
Genre: Classical

Recording dates and venue: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet & Bassoon Sonatas, Recording: 3rd – 5th April 2016, Bavaria Studio Munich. Althorn Sonata, Recording: 6th January 2017, Munich Bayerische Rundfunk Studio 2

The pieces by Paul Hindemith on this recording, have a special importance in the history of music. They stand at a crossroads, belonging to an era when progressive and post-Romantic tendencies still existed side by side. These five sonatas represent a deliberate return to a classical form, revealing, in Claude Rostand’s words, “a distinctive chromaticism that frees his emerging style from tonal instability and melodious fluidity”. It is the classical structures that he restores, “in so doing rejuvenating his very spirit with the most sovereign and daring freedom of thought”. Once again, these few words by Claude Rostand, who saw the composer “bearing the arms of Bach or Stravinsky”, seem to hit the nail on the head.

TRACKLIST – Hindemith: Wind Sonatas
Sonata for flute & piano
1. I. Heiter bewegt
2. II. Sehr langsam
3. III. Sehr lebhaft – Marsch

Sonata for Oboe & Piano

4. I. Munter
5. II. Sehr langsam - lebhaft - sehr langsam - wieder lebhaft

Sonata for Clarinet & Piano

6. Massig bewegt
7. II. Lebhaft
8. III. Sehr langsam
9. IV. Kleines Rondo, gemachlich

Bassoon Sonata for Bassoon & Piano

10. I. Leicht bewegt
11. II. Langsam - Marsch

Sonata for Althorn & Piano

12. I. Ruhig bewegt
13. II. Lebhaft
14. III. Sehr langsam
15. IV. Das Posthorn (Zwiegespräch)
16. Lebhaft

Artists:

Emmanuel Pahud, Flute
François Leleux, Oboe
Paul Meyer, Clarinet
Gilbert Audin, Bassoon
Radovan Vlatković, Horn

With Eric le Sage, Piano

Luka Vlatković, Josephine Bloéb (12 – 16), Dialogue