The Hindemith‐year 2013 saw many excellent and valuable new recordings of his works, and this release adds another tribute to this intriguing German composer.

The violin sonatas span the composer’s lifetime, and offer a clear overview of his stylistic development, from the early influences of the German Late Romantics Reger and Richard Strauss to his experiments with jazz, polytonality and atonality, and his own adaptations of Baroque and Classical elements: an eclectic, highly personal style, brimming with energy, passion and wit.

Excellent performances by Jill and Eliot Lawson, a “Wonderful violinist and a very fine young musician” (Lorin Maazel).