Hindemith: Complete Music for Cello and Piano Umberto Aleandri & Filippo Farinelli

• Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963): Cello Sonata in E Major:
• 1Hindemith: Cello Sonata in E Major: I. Pastorale07:25
• 2Hindemith: Cello Sonata in E Major: II. Moderately Fast06:43
• 3Hindemith: Cello Sonata in E Major: III. Passacaglia09:42
• Kleine Sonate, Op. 25 No. 2:
• 4Hindemith: Kleine Sonate, Op. 25 No. 2: I. Breit03:02
• 5Hindemith: Kleine Sonate, Op. 25 No. 2: II. Lebhaft02:15
• 6Hindemith: Kleine Sonate, Op. 25 No. 2: III. Langsam04:03
• A Frog He Went A-Courting:
• 7Hindemith: A Frog He Went A-Courting05:48
• Meditation from Nobilissima Visione:
• 8Hindemith: Meditation from Nobilissima Visione04:02
• 3 Leichte Stücke:
• 9Hindemith: 3 Leichte Stücke: I. Mäßig schnell, Munter01:26
• 10Hindemith: 3 Leichte Stücke: II. Langsam02:54
• 11Hindemith: 3 Leichte Stücke: III. Lebhaft02:36
• Sonate, Op. 11 No. 3:
• 12Hindemith: Sonate, Op. 11 No. 3: I. Mäßig schnelle Viertel. Mit Kraft09:38
• 13Hindemith: Sonate, Op. 11 No. 3: II. Langsam -05:33
• 14Hindemith: Sonate, Op. 11 No. 3: Sehr Lebhaft04:15
• 15Hindemith: Sonate, Op. 11 No. 3: I. Lebhaftes Zeitmaß09:54
• 16Hindemith: Sonate, Op. 11 No. 3: II. Langsam; Sehr Lebhaft09:45
• 6. III. Schnelle Viertel, stets kraft- Und Schwungvoll:
• 17Hindemith: 6. III. Schnelle Viertel, stets kraft- Und Schwungvoll11:57
• 3 Stücke, Op. 8:
• 18Hindemith: 3 Stücke, Op. 8: I. Capriccio - Lebhaft02:54
• 19Hindemith: 3 Stücke, Op. 8: II. Phantasiestück - Mäßig Langsam10:02
• 20Hindemith: 3 Stücke, Op. 8: III. Scherzo - Mäßig schnelle Achtel11:23
• Total Runtime02:05:17

Info for Hindemith: Complete Music for Cello and Piano

Within the extensive repertoire of the German composer Paul Hindemith (1895–1963), music for cello and piano occupies a considerable position in terms of both quantity and quality. Hindemith was primarily a violist and conductor, but his wide-ranging interests led him to experiment with a great variety of instruments both as composer and player, making him a de facto multi-instrumentalist. Among his favourite instruments, the cello always occupied a special place in his activities, among other things because of his collaboration with his brother Rudolf, an excellent cellist.

His original compositions for the specific duo of cello and piano are varied and numerous, and they provide a synthetic vision of the different stylistic instances of an author who never got tired of rethinking and redefining his language. This recording brings together and offers the listener this entire wonderful portion of Hindemith’s catalogue.

The Drei Stücke Op.8 (1917) are undoubtedly among the most important pieces of the composer’s youthful phase. The later Sonata Op.11 No.3, a composition of considerable constructive commitment and complex genesis, is recorded here for the first time in both versions: one from 1919 (lost piano parts reconstructed by Fazıl Say), the other from 1921. The delicate and expressive Drei leichte Stücke ‘Cello in first position’, composed in April 1938, are intended for the didactic sphere, without renouncing in the slightest the peculiarities of the harmonic language of the composer. The same can be said of the brief and melancholic Meditation, a transcription of a movement from Hindemith’s orchestral ballet Nobilissima Visione. More complex is A Frog he went a-courting. Despite its brevity, it is one of the finest pieces on this programme. A dozen concise variations, framed by the initial exposition and the concluding return of the traditional English theme, present a wealth of instrumental, timbral, expressive and dynamic solutions in a small, dense, brilliant display of Hindemith’s compositional mastery. Do not be deceived by the title Kleine Sonate (1942), which is small in size but not in terms of compositional complexity. The imposing Cello Sonata (1948) was written for Gregor Piatigorsky and premiered by him in New York in the year it was composed. Comparing this Sonata to the Sonata Op.11 No.3 conveys a sense of the stylistic evolution across some 30 years.

Umberto Aleandri, cello
Filippo Farinelli, piano

Umberto Aleandri
He got a Master in Chamber Music at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and gave concerts in many ensembles in Italy and abroad, participating in various festivals: Mantova Chamber Music Festival, Festival dei 2 Mondi in Spoleto, Euroclassical, Umbria Music Fest, Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Filarmonica Umbra.

Founder of Duo Escher, with which he was awarded in several national competitions.

He has played in the role of cello principal in various orchestras, such as International Opera Theater of Philadelphia, Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana and others; he recently collaborated with I Solisti Aquilani, Orchestra Leonore and Orchestra Filarmonica di Milano.

He recorded a portrait CD on music by Sandro Fuga for Tactus.

Filippo Farinelli
is a pianist and a multifaceted musician, mainly specialized in chamber and vocal chamber music repertoire.

His passion for the French repertoire brought him to realize several monographic recording’s projects with Brilliant Classics, including the complete chamber vocal catalogue by Maurice Ravel and André Jolivet alongside the complete music for Saxophone and Piano by Charles Koechlin together with David Brutti. His engagement on the chamber music repertoire of the last century let him confront with the vocal production of Luigi Dallapiccola as well as with the Entartete Musik. Continuously focused on the contemporary repertoire for solo piano he regularly performs music by Italian composers such as Donatoni, Sciarrino and Momi together with the international repertoire for chamber ensemble including works by (Denisov, Messiaen, Williams). His research on rare and facets repertoire for duo recently led to the co-curatorship of the critical edition of Guido Alberto Fano’s Fantasia Sonata for SEDM.

He has been prize-winner in several international competitions such as Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition 2007 in Amsterdam, 18th Caltanissetta International Competition, 21st International Competition in Trapani and he founded several ensembles: the Duo Disecheis (dedicated to the historical and contemporary repertoire for sax and piano), Duo Komma (characterized by the desire to rediscover and reassess manuscript works that are part of Italy’s 19th- and 20th-century instrumental repertoire) and the Quartetto Rêves (specialized in the French repertoire of the IX and XX century from duo to quartet).

He works with renowned musicians such as Melissa Phelps, Elisabeth Perry, Federico Mondelci, Mario Caroli, Ivo Nilsson, Patrick De Ritis, Jonathan Williams, and singers such as Monica Piccinini, Alda Caiello, Sophie Marilley, Mark Milhofer, Christian Immler and Roberto Abbondanza. Filippo regularly plays in Italian seasons (Amici della Musica in Perugia, Modena, Foggia, Catanzaro, Terni…) and in Festival such as Ljubljana Festival, MusicaRivaFestival, “da Bach a Bartòk” in Imola, Festival delle Nazioni in Città di Castello, Automne Musical in Châtellerault, Sagra Musicale Umbra. He has mainly recorded with Brilliant Classics and Tactus.

He got degrees in piano and chamber music as well as in composition and orchestral conducting, he obtained a Postgraduate at the Music University of Wien in vocal chamber music repertoire and he studied with Charles Spencer, Irwin Gage, Dalton Baldwin, Pier Narciso Masi and Dario De Rosa among others. He currently serves as Professor of Vocal Chamber Music in Italian Conservatories and held masterclasses in Europe.

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