Your Two Pristine Classical Chistmas Gifts

 

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Christmas Present no. 2:

Hindemith - Duet for Viola and Cello (Scherzo)

 

Paul Hindemith Emanuel Feuermann

Paul Hindemith, viola
Emanuel Feuermann, cello

Written and recorded in London on 23rd January, 1934
Issued as Columbia DB 1789, part 11 in Columbia History of Music Vol. 5
Duration: 3:18
Transfer and XR remastering by Andrew Rose, September 2008

 

Notes on this recording:

In January 1934 Hindemith had been busy in the studio recording his first Viola Sonata and other works at Abbey Road. But he was also asked to contribute a single side to Columbia's epic History of Music series: thus on the morning of 23rd January he awoke early, composed this short duet for Viola and Cello, and recorded it the same day.

Two days earlier he had been recording his second String Trio with violinist Szymon Goldberg and the cellist, Emanuel Feuermann. It seems Feuermann was still around, and thus able to be called upon to play the cello part in this new, short duet.

Thus we have that rarest of recordings from this era - not just a world première recording, but a world première performance on the day of composition, and with the composer playing viola and one of the world's very finest cellists playing the cello!

 

 

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More recordings by Emanuel Feuermann at Pristine Classical:

 

• Brahms - Cello Sonata No 1 - Feuermann, van der Pas (1934)
  
  
• Chopin - Nocturne in E flat (arr. cello) - Feuermann, Rebner (1936)
  
  
• Dvorak - Cello Concerto - Berlin State Opera House Orch., Taube (rec. 1928-9)
  
  
• Gluck - Melodie (from Orphee, Ballet Music) - Feuermann, van der Pas (1934)
  
  
• Schubert - Arpeggione Sonata (Cello and Piano) - Feuermann, Moore (1937)
  
  
• Strauss, Richard - Don Quixote - NBC Symphony Orchestra, Toscanini (rec. 1938)

 

 

More music by Paul Hindemith at Pristine Classical:

 

• Hindemith - Konzertmusik fur Streichorchester und Blechblaser - Cantelli, NBC SO (1954)
  
  
• Hindemith - Mathis der Maler - Cantelli, NBC SO (1949)

 

 

 

 

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