‘ fervent, committed, technically dazzling interpretation never has appeared on CD, and it deserves reissue. Pianists who can solve Hindemith’s formidable demands have always had a great deal of fun playing Ludus tonalis, and a really distinguished performance of it can provide much enjoyment for the listener.’ - High Fidelity, May 1966 ‘Its technical and scholarly attributes are happily partnered by humour, charm and a great deal of fertile imagination. However, she made comparatively few recordings: this account of Ludus tonalis is her major legacy, but it has never been made available on CD.
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Her television debut on the BBC had led to a series of programs back in Stockholm where she lived with her husband at the time, the film director Ingmar Bergman. Having studied with Edwin Fischer, Laretei had performed throughout Europe for the past two decades, becoming something of a celebrity. lpludus-tonalispaul-hindemith-kbi-laretei0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s24jnz91651 Lineage Technics SL1200MK5 Turntable + Audio-Technica AT95e cartridge > Radio Design Labs EZ-PH1 phono preamp > Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-rc2-1-gf788 Ocrdetectedlang en Ocrdetectedlangconf 1.0000 Ocrdetectedscript Greek Ocrdetected. Edward Aldwell adresses it a powerful reading, sparkling vision, transcendence, and eloquent expressiveness all the way through. She recorded Ludus tonalis in a New York studio a few days after presenting it at Carnegie Hall, where she had won over the audience not only with her performance but also a question-and-answer session after the concert. Ludus Tonalis is a major work that well deserves a close knowledge for many hard music lovers. Having been coached by the composer in the cycle a decade earlier, she incorporated his performance suggestions and amendments to the score into her performance. There is a unique authority to this recording made in October 1965 for the Philips label by the Estonian-Swedish pianist Kabi Laretei. It’s a monument of modern keyboard literature whose forbidding reputation is belied by the approachable and highly varied nature of Hindemith’s writing.
(Another is Shostakovich’s Twenty-four Preludes and Fugues, which I also review on this site.) An article comparing the Bach and Hindemith. Comprises prelude, 12 fugues with 11 interludes, and postlude (inverted version of prelude). Hindemith, Ludus Tonalis (1942) Ludus tonalis, which contains interludes and fugues in all 24 keys, is one of the twentieth century’s principal responses to Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. The hour-long piano cycle itself finds refuge from conflict in the reassertion of the time-honoured value of counterpoint, comprising twelve fugues and interludes framed by a prelude and its mirror image as a postlude. studies in counterpoint, tonal organization, and pf. Hindemith wrote Ludus tonalis in 1942 while staying the US as a refugee from Nazi Germany. $ Ī 20th-century counterpart to The Well-Tempered Clavier in a landmark recording, long unavailable, newly remastered and transferred to CD from the original tapes for the very first time.