Hindemith: 4 Sonatas for Viola Solo

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Release Date: 16th Nov 2018
Catalogue No: 95413
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 69 minutes

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

Work length17:33

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Luca Ranieri (viola)
Recorded: 21 April / 30 December 2017
Recording Venue: Museum of Santa Croce, Umbertide (PG), Italy

I. Ausserst lebhaft

Track length3:35

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

Track length3:06

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III. Thema mit Variationen

Track length10:52

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Hindemith: Sonata for solo viola (1937)

Work length15:49

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Luca Ranieri (viola)
Recorded: 21 April / 30 December 2017
Recording Venue: Museum of Santa Croce, Umbertide (PG), Italy

I. Lebhaft Halbe

Track length4:25

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II. Langsame Viertel - Lebhaft. Pizzikato - Wieder wie fruher

Track length7:05

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III. Massig schnelle Viertel

Track length4:19

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

Work length20:51

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Luca Ranieri (viola)
Recorded: 21 April / 30 December 2017
Recording Venue: Museum of Santa Croce, Umbertide (PG), Italy

I. Lebhaft, aber nicht geeilt

Track length3:06

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II. Massig schnell, mit viel Warme vortragen

Track length4:28

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III. Scherzo: Schnell

Track length3:39

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

Track length9:38

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

Work length15:03

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Luca Ranieri (viola)
Recorded: 21 April / 30 December 2017
Recording Venue: Museum of Santa Croce, Umbertide (PG), Italy

I. Breit viertel - II. Sehr frisch und straff

Track length4:00

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III. Sehr langsam

Track length5:01

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IV. Rasendes Zeitmass - Wild - Tonschonheit ist Nebensache

Track length1:38

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V. Langsam, aber mit viel Ausdruck

Track length4:24

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Hindemith was not only a composer but also a hugely talented viola player who wrote a number of remarkable, innovative works for his instrument. The piano-accompanied sonatas are relatively wellknown, so too the Trauermusik composed in a single evening to mark the death of King George V. The solo viola works have had less attention: Hindemith referred to them as Gebrauchsmusik, by which he meant compositions with simple, linear structures, often intended for amateur players: music that responded to a particular need or use.

Their language owes something to the solo viola music by Max Reger, with which Hindemith was certainly familiar. However, Hindemith could draw on both greater individuality as a melodist as well as his own considerable skills as a violist to inform his idiomatic writing for the instrument. Op.11 no.5 (1919) has a Classical structure in four movements, concluding with a noble passacaglia: the work of a gifted 24-year-old who is still establishing his own path within the wider context of musical tradition. Op.25 no.1 belongs to Hindemith’s Neoclassical period: spiky and witty with a whirlwind finale. Composed in 1923, the Sonata op.31 no.4 evolves in more traditional fashion, from a perpetuum mobile opening movement to a grave but not melancholy song, followed by a theme-and-variation finale. The 1937 Sonata is much more searching and chromatic, doubtless reflecting its troubled times, and notably exploiting contrasts of sound and silence.

Luca Ranieri is among Italy’s most distinguished violists, having been conducted as a soloist by the likes of Mehta, Giulini and Sinopoli. His many recordings include the Cello Suites of Bach arranged for viola: ‘Ranieri plays with elegance and clean articulation, and his tone is clear’ (AllMusic review).

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