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Music of Weisgall and Hindemith

Martin Perry

Music of Weisgall and Hindemith

Format: CD
Label: Bridge
UPC: 0090404948725
Catnr: BRIDG 9487
Release date: 07 July 2017
1 CD
 
Label
Bridge
UPC
0090404948725
Catalogue number
BRIDG 9487
Release date
07 July 2017
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About the album

Annotator Allan Kozinn writes: "if audiences listened as devotedly to contemporary piano scores as to the great works of the 17th through early 20th centuries, the two works Martin Perry plays here would be regarded as landmarks of the piano’s huge repertory. No doubt one day they will be – Paul Hindemith’s Ludus Tonalis has a constituency among discerning pianists and listeners; for many, Hugo Weisgall’s Sonata for Piano remains an undiscovered gem, something that may change once listeners who think of Weisgall as principally a vocal composer realize that his instrumental music is as just as dazzling." Martin Perry delivers intensely musical, brilliantly realized readings of these two important twentieth century keyboard masterworks.
Martin Perry liefert intensiv musikalische, brillant realisierte Interpretationen zu Kompositionen zweier wichtiger Meisterwerke für Piano im 20. Jahrhundert: Musik von Paul Hindemith und Hugo Weisgall.

Artist(s)

Martin Perry

Martin Perry is an American pianist who, while well-versed in many genres, has established himself as a specialist in modernist music. Raised in Sacramento, California, Perry studied piano with Patricia Taylor Lee, Thomas Schumacher, and Adele Marcus (a pupil of Russian pianist Josef Lhévinne), and attended the University of Maryland and Juilliard. Following a debut recital at Carnegie Hall, Perry toured the United States. He has performed with the Boston Pops, the Portland Symphony Orchestra, the Arkansas Symphony, the Florida Philharmonic, the Baltic Philharmonic, and the Moscow Philharmonic. He has performed chamber music with the Cassatt Quartet and the DaPonte Quartet and is a member of the Nordica Trio. His wide repertoire includes early Romantic works by Mendelssohn, Chopin, and...
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Martin Perry is an American pianist who, while well-versed in many genres, has established himself as a specialist in modernist music. Raised in Sacramento, California, Perry studied piano with Patricia Taylor Lee, Thomas Schumacher, and Adele Marcus (a pupil of Russian pianist Josef Lhévinne), and attended the University of Maryland and Juilliard. Following a debut recital at Carnegie Hall, Perry toured the United States. He has performed with the Boston Pops, the Portland Symphony Orchestra, the Arkansas Symphony, the Florida Philharmonic, the Baltic Philharmonic, and the Moscow Philharmonic. He has performed chamber music with the Cassatt Quartet and the DaPonte Quartet and is a member of the Nordica Trio. His wide repertoire includes early Romantic works by Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Schumann, which he performs on fortepiano, and he devotes much of his time promoting the 20th century works of Charles Ives, Alan Hovhaness, and Charles Tomlinson Griffes. He has recorded solo piano music for Bridge, and writes a blog on music, Con Spirito.

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Composer(s)

Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith studied violin at the Dr Hoch's Konservatorium of Frankfurt and played from 1915 to 1923 in the Frankfurt opera. From 1921 to 1929 he played viola in the Amar Quarter, where he was advocate for contemporary music. Throughout the years, he held multiple positions as teachers, but he remained most popular as a violist. During the Second Worldwar he fleed to the USA and was given the American nationality in 1948, Later, he returned to Europe to teach at the university of Zürich. His use rhythm, called 'Motorik' by himself (a combination of Motor and Musik) is piercing, and at times even tormenting. It echoes the arrival of industralisation and the motor, as Hindemith opposes any form of sentimentality, psychology...
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Paul Hindemith studied violin at the Dr Hoch's Konservatorium of Frankfurt and played from 1915 to 1923 in the Frankfurt opera. From 1921 to 1929 he played viola in the Amar Quarter, where he was advocate for contemporary music. Throughout the years, he held multiple positions as teachers, but he remained most popular as a violist. During the Second Worldwar he fleed to the USA and was given the American nationality in 1948, Later, he returned to Europe to teach at the university of Zürich.
His use rhythm, called "Motorik" by himself (a combination of Motor and Musik) is piercing, and at times even tormenting. It echoes the arrival of industralisation and the motor, as Hindemith opposes any form of sentimentality, psychology or personality. This way, Hinemith created shrill, neoclassicistic music (Gebrauchsmusik, music with a social or political aim). His body of works is quite extensive, with more than 100 compositions in all kinds of genres. Even though he was an advocate of contemporary music, he never felt affiliated with dodecaphony. He wrote several theoretic treatises, among which his Unterweisung im Tonsatz from 1937 in which Hindemith offers several systems in which the tension between intervals, harmony and melody is analysed and elevated into a compositional technique.


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01.
Sonata for Piano: I. Allegro impetuoso
06:33
(Hugo Weisgall) Martin Perry
02.
Sonata for Piano: II. Adagio molto
07:13
(Hugo Weisgall) Martin Perry
03.
Sonata for Piano: III. Rondo quasi presto
04:06
(Hugo Weisgall) Martin Perry
04.
Ludus Tonalis: I. Praeludium
03:29
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
05.
Ludus Tonalis: II. Fuga prima in C Lento
03:03
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
06.
Ludus Tonalis: III. Interludium Moderato, con energia
01:27
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
07.
Ludus Tonalis: IV. Fuga secunda in G Allegro
01:50
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
08.
Ludus Tonalis: V. Interludium Pastorale, moderato
01:10
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
09.
Ludus Tonalis: VI. Fuga tertia in F Andante
02:20
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
10.
Ludus Tonalis: VII. Interludium Scherzando
01:23
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
11.
Ludus Tonalis: VIII. Fuga quarta in A Con energia
02:45
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
12.
Ludus Tonalis: IX. Interludium Vivace
01:16
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
13.
Ludus Tonalis: X. Fuga quinta in E Vivace
01:16
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
14.
Ludus Tonalis: XI. Interludium Moderato
01:12
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
15.
Ludus Tonalis: XII. Fuga sexta in E-flat Tranquillo
02:12
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
16.
Ludus Tonalis: XIII. Interludium Marcia
01:51
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
17.
Ludus Tonalis: XIV. Fuga septima in A-flat Moderato
02:10
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
18.
Ludus Tonalis: XV. Interludium Molto largo
02:46
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
19.
Ludus Tonalis: XVI. Fuga octava in D Con Forza
01:00
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
20.
Ludus Tonalis: XVII. Interludium Allegro molto
01:31
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
21.
Ludus Tonalis: XVIII. Fuga nona in B-flat Moderato, scherzando
02:17
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
22.
Ludus Tonalis: XIX. Interludium - Molto tranquillo
02:15
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
23.
Ludus Tonalis: XX. Fuga decima in D-flat Allegro moderato, grazioso
01:57
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
24.
Ludus Tonalis: XXI. Interludium - Allegro pesante
02:01
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
25.
Ludus Tonalis: XXII. Fuga undecima in B (Canon) - Lento
02:11
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
26.
Ludus Tonalis: XXIII. Interludium - Valse
01:49
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
27.
Ludus Tonalis: XXIV. Fuga duodecima in F# Molto tranquillo
02:49
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
28.
Ludus Tonalis: XXV. Postludium
03:46
(Paul Hindemith) Martin Perry
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