Hindemith: The Complete Viola Music Volume 2: Solo Sonatas

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Power's warmly rounded tone and searching interpretations cast the most favourable possible light on this wonderful if sometimes astringent music...few players can make this music more compelling... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Feb 2010
Catalogue No: CDA67769
Label: Hyperion
Series: Hindemith Viola Music
Length: 64 minutes

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Hindemith: Sonata for solo Viola, Op. 11 No. 5

Work length18:46

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Lawrence Power (viola)

I. Lebhaft, aber nicht geeilt

Track length2:45

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II. Mässig schnell, mit viel Wärme vortragen

Track length4:13

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III. Scherzo: Schnell

Track length2:56

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IV. In Form und Zeitmass einer Passacaglia: Das Thema sehr gehalten

Track length8:52

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Hindemith: Sonata for Solo Viola, Op. 25 No. 1

Work length15:15

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Lawrence Power (viola)

I. Breit Viertel

Track length1:46

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II. Sehr frisch und straff

Track length1:32

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III. Sehr langsam

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IV. Rasendes Zeitmass: Wild: Tonschönheit ist Nebensache

Track length1:33

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V. Langsam, mit viel Ausdruck

Track length4:44

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Hindemith: Sonata for solo viola, Op. 31 No. 4

Work length16:50

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Lawrence Power (viola)

I. Äusserst lebhaft

Track length3:05

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II. Lied: Ruhig, mit wenig Ausdruck: Langsame Viertel

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III. Thema mit Variationen: Schnelle Viertel, ma maestoso

Track length10:15

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Hindemith: Sonata for solo viola (1937)

Work length13:26

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Lawrence Power (viola)

I. Lebhafte Halbe

Track length3:35

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II. Langsame Viertel – Lebhaft – Wieder wie früher

Track length6:19

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III. Mässig schnelle Viertel

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Lawrence Power, Britain’s acknowledged greatest living viola player, continues his fascinating and acclaimed series of Hindemith’s complete viola music. This second disc features Hindemith’s solo viola sonatas. These works were all written for Hindemith himself to perform, and are thus are of special significance—as near to a personal testament, an intimate soliloquy, as exists in his multifarious and genre-spanning output.

The shadow of Bach lies over any composer writing a solo string sonata, and this is clear in the Passacaglia Op 11 No 5 Sonata, where Hindemith’s ultimate model is unmistakably the famous D minor Chaconne from Bach’s second violin partita—but viewed through a post-Brahmsian sense of sonority and architecture that produces a truly contemporary result. This ardent (and arduous) movement, a most impressive compositional feat, is the first example of a form which was to be one of Hindemith’s trademarks throughout his career, and it makes the Sonata something of a personal manifesto of artistic ambition. In later sonatas the severity of Hindemith’s mature style becomes evident—but harnessed, here, to the extraordinary virtuosity of the composer-performer, it gives rise to the most exhilarating and eloquent music.

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May 2010

Power's warmly rounded tone and searching interpretations cast the most favourable possible light on this wonderful if sometimes astringent music...few players can make this music more compelling than does Power.

May 2010

His prodigious technical ability - ideally suited to this repertoire - [is] allied to real musicianship in pieces which, for all their complexities, should sound grateful to play and hear...Power's firm line and clear tone, aided by Hyperion's superb recording, are splendid

Power’s performances – characterised by his trademark tonal richness and easy, almost nonchalant technical brilliance – leave no doubt about the weighty seriousness of the music, and its significance for Hindemith

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