![]() ![]() Sign on to the blogfeed: Visit the website: www.normanlebrecht. Hindemith: Ludus Tonalis LP Kbi Laretei (Artist) Format: Vinyl 17 ratings 999 See all 3 formats and editions Streaming Unlimited MP3 12.49 Listen with our Free App Audio CD 12.99 2 Used from 16.99 9 New from 11.80 Vinyl 9.99 5 Used from 9.99 1 New from 262. Una Masterclass di Pianoforte e Musica da Camera (29-30 Aprile 2023). 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. I’ve had her Ludus in the background all week and, while I can’t pretend to love the work, I can’t help but admire Hindemith’s morning exercises, his oh-so-German devotion to the precise placement of nuts and bolts and Laretei’s unflinching turn of the family screwdriver. Il programma delle Masterclass prevede un graditissimo ritorno, la pianista Maria Perrotta, definita da Enrico Regazzoni (Venerdì di Repubblica) un genio acclamato. Hindemith wrote ‘Ludus tonalis’ in 1942 while staying in the US as a refugee from Nazi Germany. Laretei treats Hindemith with appropriate austerity, no flirty smiles, no lapses of concentration (dinner at the Bergmans must have been fun). She has technique to spare and a feel for mood that few piano players can replicate. Why she is not better known I cannot figure. The pianist in this rare recording, reissued from 1965, is the Estonian refugee Käbi Laretei who, in Sweden, became the first wife of the film drector Ingmar Bergman. ![]() Like a rattler, you know it’s there but you don’t dare look. The 1943 Ludus Tonalis set for solo piano, premiered by Artur Schnabel in Chicago that year, is Hindemith’s attempt at a Goldberg Variations, contrapuntal as a dyspeptic snake, turning this way and that, striking without warning. ![]()
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