Thanks for posting this particular performance! It's revealing to hear the sonata played with unabashed Romantic subjectivity - takes a bit of getting used to after Gould. Yudina reminds me of the link between Hindemith and Reger and also, being Russian, of how Shostakovich respected and was influenced by Hindemith. These links aren't obvious when H's sonatas are played with the usual lean style Western performers bring to neo-classicism. Here there's a whole new layer of unexpected gravity...
A marvelous creation, so skillfully composed! The performance is skillful and interpreted with great artistry and understanding. Bravo! I performed this sonata in 1963 in Seattle at the University of Washington. I remember it well. Thanks for giving me this precious memory.
There's something so distinctive about Hindemith's sonic landscape. I think much of it has to do with unexpected cadences and, in his melodies, a chromatic alteration from a major or minor mode, such that unexpected phrases of the melody are altered.
I really wish some of these performances could have the audio cleaned up (not your fault---thank you for uploading!). It's just really painful to listen to with high quality components. However, this interpretation really helps make the motifs and point of this piece clear. Hindemith is so great, and I'm glad to see that year after year he becomes less underrated.
always avoided Hindemith... there was no reason, i just never sat down and listened to him. Thanks RUclips for your automatic playing of the next video! :) (Needless to say i loved this song)
It's sort of disappointing that the pianist doesn't observe the written note values at 3:57. Hindemith went to a lot of trouble notating a rhythm that contradicts the prevailing beat, and you lose all sense of it by the third measure, after she turns the initial eighth note into a full dotted quarter.
A beautiful sonata, and it's surprising that I missed Hindemith for so long. But the pianist in this recording is inaccurate with her rhythms in the first movement. She is holding eighth notes on beat one far too long.
A terrific work and a fine performance. Pity Gould's performance of the full sonata is partially blocked. This should never happen with music. One does not 'copyright' a recording...
Yudina is a great pianist - Gould had also registrered the saonatas of Hindemith. But I do not find that these sonatas are the best of Hindemith. Perhaps afterall he needed instrumental colors to highlight his contrapuctal textures.
This is the first time I've heard the piece, and it's great, but I have to say: the rhythm just doesn't work in this recording of the first movement. Even following the score I got confused by the excessive rubatos and unmarked tempo changes. I don't like to complain, but I think the first movement, and perhaps indeed all of the sonata must be played in tempo, and strictly metronomic. The emotions can be defined by tone and dynamics, but the piece falls apart without it being obvious what's even going on.
I agree. Gould's performance, which used to be available on RUclips, was more straightforward, if I remember correctly, and I enjoyed it more than this performance, which loses the pulse of the music, at least in the first movement. Too romantic an interpretation, IMO.
Any score is only a rough approximation of what a sensitive artist can make of a piece of music. When I listen to music, I ALWAYS close my eyes. Why? Then the music can be totally transcendental! (Music is a kind of LSD) This performance "takes you out" as the vernacular might say. She has gone way past "the notes" here. Again, listen to Jazz pianist Bill Evans.
@@johnlindstrom9994 Hindemith was fascinated by rigorous beat and rythm. A bit like machine. That's an influence of his time. Hindemith music is made to be played very strictly. It's like playing Bach with tones of pedal. The music wasn't written for that. This is a very nice interpretation. But I prefer a Gould more strict with the pulse like the piece require. It is like playing Chopin with a strict beat. It sounds like a lack of emotion.
@@etiennedelaunois1737 I don't see why emotion should be drained out of any music. With the potential takeover of Music by Artificial Intelligence, including inane, pounding drum beats, I certainly hope that Human Feeling persists. I predict that American Jazz will become the Classical Music of the twentieth Century, when we look back from 2050 AD. It is already happening! Look what Gidon Kremer did with the Bach "Chaccone." Emotional;Powerful. Did he take excess liberties?
@@johnlindstrom9994 - Emotion can take place in music in more places than tempo and playing something in a strict tempo does not make music emotionless. There are plenty of examples of music that requires an extremely rigid and mechanical tempo that are brimming with emotional content. In fact, for some of them, I would argue that rubato would weaken their effect. Besides, who are you to dictate how composers should write their music? Dictating how a composer must express themselves in the art they create is antithetical to humanity.
What's wrong with rubato? Any moronic drum machine can be metronomic. I think, as AI invades music, the human feeling of rubato will come back. Listen to Bill Evans' jazz works. Actually, Jazz pianists like Lenny Tristano cited Hindemith as a a source of ideas, along with Bach and Bartok.
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A major composer who, with his distinctive melodic and harmonic language enriched 20th c. music. A wonderful composer! This a stunning performance!
Thanks for posting this particular performance! It's revealing to hear the sonata played with unabashed Romantic subjectivity - takes a bit of getting used to after Gould. Yudina reminds me of the link between Hindemith and Reger and also, being Russian, of how Shostakovich respected and was influenced by Hindemith. These links aren't obvious when H's sonatas are played with the usual lean style Western performers bring to neo-classicism. Here there's a whole new layer of unexpected gravity...
A marvelous creation, so skillfully composed! The performance is skillful and interpreted with great artistry and understanding. Bravo! I performed this sonata in 1963 in Seattle at the University of Washington. I remember it well. Thanks for giving me this precious memory.
There's something so distinctive about Hindemith's sonic landscape. I think much of it has to do with unexpected cadences and, in his melodies, a chromatic alteration from a major or minor mode, such that unexpected phrases of the melody are altered.
Hendimith's unique vertical language is always an object of fascination.
Maravilla de un gran compositor como Hindemith. Muchas gracias por compartir desde Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Gould's magnificent performance of the fugue gives one a taste of what his full performance could be like, Mr Ziolo. Such an eloquent piece!
Ah, it's Gould! That explains why, though it sounds odd, it made me think of Bach! I'm new to Hindemith and I can't get enough of this piece!
He did record it in its entirety, in my opinion magnificently
Actually the performer is Maria Yudina.
I really wish some of these performances could have the audio cleaned up (not your fault---thank you for uploading!). It's just really painful to listen to with high quality components. However, this interpretation really helps make the motifs and point of this piece clear. Hindemith is so great, and I'm glad to see that year after year he becomes less underrated.
always avoided Hindemith... there was no reason, i just never sat down and listened to him. Thanks RUclips for your automatic playing of the next video! :)
(Needless to say i loved this song)
Mazzei .-. not a song.
@Ryan Leonard : But not yet. A song is sung. A song has lyrics.
A beautiful, powerful performance
The last movement is a great example of a double fugue!
The interpretation of the fugue is epic
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It's sort of disappointing that the pianist doesn't observe the written note values at 3:57. Hindemith went to a lot of trouble notating a rhythm that contradicts the prevailing beat, and you lose all sense of it by the third measure, after she turns the initial eighth note into a full dotted quarter.
THANK YOU!!!! I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed it.
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Richter had some interesting things to say about Maria Yudina in his book
Gould's version of the fugue is amazing.
The fugue - oh my
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A beautiful sonata, and it's surprising that I missed Hindemith for so long. But the pianist in this recording is inaccurate with her rhythms in the first movement. She is holding eighth notes on beat one far too long.
Is she improvising? Why not, if it sounds better.
A terrific work and a fine performance. Pity Gould's performance of the full sonata is partially blocked. This should never happen with music. One does not 'copyright' a recording...
Of course you do, and rightly so.
Neo-Bach
Yudina is a great pianist - Gould had also registrered the saonatas of Hindemith. But I do not find that these sonatas are the best of Hindemith. Perhaps afterall he needed instrumental colors to highlight his contrapuctal textures.
6:36 trane
The composer who loved flats. lol
I don't get it.
Greensleeves
Ok
This is the first time I've heard the piece, and it's great, but I have to say: the rhythm just doesn't work in this recording of the first movement. Even following the score I got confused by the excessive rubatos and unmarked tempo changes. I don't like to complain, but I think the first movement, and perhaps indeed all of the sonata must be played in tempo, and strictly metronomic. The emotions can be defined by tone and dynamics, but the piece falls apart without it being obvious what's even going on.
I agree. Gould's performance, which used to be available on RUclips, was more straightforward, if I remember correctly, and I enjoyed it more than this performance, which loses the pulse of the music, at least in the first movement. Too romantic an interpretation, IMO.
Any score is only a rough approximation of what a sensitive artist can make of a piece of music. When I listen to music, I ALWAYS close my eyes. Why? Then the music can be totally transcendental! (Music is a kind of LSD) This performance "takes you out" as the vernacular might say. She has gone way past "the notes" here. Again, listen to Jazz pianist Bill Evans.
@@johnlindstrom9994 Hindemith was fascinated by rigorous beat and rythm. A bit like machine. That's an influence of his time. Hindemith music is made to be played very strictly. It's like playing Bach with tones of pedal. The music wasn't written for that.
This is a very nice interpretation. But I prefer a Gould more strict with the pulse like the piece require.
It is like playing Chopin with a strict beat. It sounds like a lack of emotion.
@@etiennedelaunois1737 I don't see why emotion should be drained out of any music. With the potential takeover of Music by Artificial Intelligence, including inane, pounding drum beats, I certainly hope that Human Feeling persists. I predict that American Jazz will become the Classical Music of the twentieth Century, when we look back from 2050 AD. It is already happening! Look what Gidon Kremer did with the Bach "Chaccone." Emotional;Powerful. Did he take excess liberties?
@@johnlindstrom9994 - Emotion can take place in music in more places than tempo and playing something in a strict tempo does not make music emotionless. There are plenty of examples of music that requires an extremely rigid and mechanical tempo that are brimming with emotional content. In fact, for some of them, I would argue that rubato would weaken their effect.
Besides, who are you to dictate how composers should write their music? Dictating how a composer must express themselves in the art they create is antithetical to humanity.
chopin's 2nd ballade
+John Philipps ?
I think he means the ritmic cell
olla-vogala it's incredibly similar in harmony and metre
I agree.
What's wrong with rubato? Any moronic drum machine can be metronomic. I think, as AI invades music, the human feeling of rubato will come back. Listen to Bill Evans' jazz works. Actually, Jazz pianists like Lenny Tristano cited Hindemith as a a source of ideas, along with Bach and Bartok.
Music math
Ppl were prob bored off their azz hearing this at his last concert