Hindemith / Howsmon / Hawkins: Convergent Winds / Music of Paul Hindemith - COMPACT DISCS

Hindemith / Howsmon / Hawkins: Convergent Winds / Music of Paul Hindemith - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Convergent Winds Music of Paul Hindemith Artist: Hindemith Howsmon Hawkins Label: Oberlin Music Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 045399107060 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2018 06 15 Number of Discs: 1 An accomplished performer on the viola, piano, and clarinet, Paul Hindemith used to brag that he could play any instrument in the orchestra with a little practice. Over the course of his prolific career, the German composer proved that he could

Title: Convergent Winds / Music of Paul Hindemith
Artist: Hindemith / Howsmon / Hawkins
Label: Oberlin Music
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 045399107060
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2018-06-15
Number of Discs: 1

An accomplished performer on the viola, piano, and clarinet, Paul Hindemith used to brag that he could play any instrument in the orchestra with a little practice. Over the course of his prolific career, the German composer proved that he could write for any instrument as well, and that very notion became something of a mission for him- to ensure that each instrument had it's share of solo repertoire. Convergent Winds, a new recording from Oberlin Music, showcases five sonatas Hindemith wrote for woodwinds. It features performances by a host of esteemed Oberlin Conservatory faculty: clarinetist Richard Hawkins, pianist James Howsmon, flutist Alexa Still, oboist and English hornist Robert Walters, and retired bassoonist George Skakeeny. The works were written between 1936- a time when Hindemith's music was banned from performance in Nazi Germany- to 1942, by which time he has resettled in America. For Howsmon, a longtime professor of instrumental accompanying at Oberlin, the recording pays tribute to an exacting neoclassicist whose music has unfairly fallen out of fashion. "Rather than being a huge innovator, Hindemith took his inspiration from past eras, and yet he had a really wonderful approach to it," Howsmon says. "He took old models and made them look new, and no matter how wild he gets, you can always find where his starting point was, and it was always 150 years before. He's like a master furniture builder- a total craftsman. There have been others who have done that, of course, but to me he is the best of them.

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