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Paul Hindemith: Ludus Tonalis (1/5)

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Uploaded by on Jul 10, 2009

A game of tones, an art of fugue.

John McCabe, piano.

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  • @TheHarpsichordist1

    Nope, it's on a Fazioli piano, not on a harpsichord.

  • The MOST underestimated Modern composer... Schoenberg knew something about all those technique of composing, Hindemith knew far more about MUSIC...

  • @DustBGD89

    Lmao.

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    Fianlly a good youtube recording. who is playing?

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  • @DustBGD89 read: it says John McCabe piano

  • @Bazzito52 it is said about Hindemith that he never wrote a note that he couldn't play himself.

  • Also, as regards the Ludus Tonalis, they were written as a kind of modern well tempered klavier to prove that Hindemith's system of quartal harmony was just as good as the old tertian system. rather than have the (or loose tonal centers) of the pieces progress chromatically (the well tempered clavier) or around the circle of fifths, Hindemith ordered his according to his system of interval classification, starting at c and moving through the lesser and lesser related keys to c all the way to f#

  • as a violist who loves hindemith's music deeply (almost as much as Shoenberg's but definitely not as much as Webern's), having heard his own recording of Der Schwanendreher, he was most definitely not a viola virtuoso :) He was the best player of his time, and a great advocate of the instrument, but in pre-Primrose times, that wasn't saying much. At all. Much better composer than violist. Seriously.

  • @innerpig

    I personally hear hints of Ravel, Debussy and Rachmaninoff as potential inspirations, as well as perhaps someone who played more atonal things like Scriabin.

    It's interesting to guess at it.

  • @skryabyn If i'm not mistaken, Jonh McCabe is playing. Recorded in 1996 on Hyperion.

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