Unrivalled Insights
Music by Hindemith
for viola and piano -
heard by
HOWARD SMITH'... among the most fulfilling instrumental CDs I have encountered ...'
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Hindemith Retrospective: Viola Sonatas is among the most fulfilling instrumental CDs I have encountered for some time.
Violist Yuri Gandelsman and pianist Ralph Votapek are hardly household names but their insights in the mid twentieth century music of Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) are unrivalled.
Hindemith side-stepped the Parisian ferment of Nadia Boulanger and the Diaghilev (1872-1929) / Stravinsky -- Ballets Russes.
Russian born and Moscow trained Gandelsman is professor of viola at the Michigan State University College of Music...
Copyright © 1 September 2013
Howard Smith,
Masterton, New Zealand
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