Roman Mints/Kobrin - Paul Hindemith: Complete Works for Violin and Piano

Recorded for the first time on one CD, Hindemith Complete Works for Violin and Piano and the rarely recorded Kleine Sonata for Viola D�amore and Piano. Roman Mints has had a lifelong love of the works of Paul Hindemith, which began when he was a young violinist, studying in Moscow in the 1980s. He says �This music, written not just before I was born but closer to the time of my grandparents� birth, felt completely contemporary, and daringly advanced in its sound � and not just to me, as it turns out: 30 years on, Hindemith is still regarded by concert programmers as too difficult for the wider public. I put Sonata in D on the stand. I was gripped by the first subject, constructed from seconds and sevenths, marked to be played �with stony defiance�. I was never the same again and he became my window into contemporary music.�