Paul Hindemith
Hindemith: Wind sonatas (Warner)
Paul Hindemith’s music is extremely well-made, intelligent, civilised, and moderately witty — so why has it all but vanished?
Britten, Hindemith, RVW, Martinu (Claves)
The 1934 suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams demands a sympathy for the rolling contours of the English countryside
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Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie