Paul Hindemith – 1930
Concert Music for Strings and Brass, Op. 50 was one of a large group of pieces commissioned for the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra by its music director, Serge Koussevitzky (others include the Piano Concerto in G major by Maurice Ravel, the Symphony of Psalms by Igor Stravinsky, and Aaron Copland’s Symphonic Ode). Koussevitzky conducted the premiere of Hindemith’s work with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on 3 April 1931.
Year: 1930
Duration: ~ 20:00
Publisher: Edition Schott
4 Trumpets (in C)
4 Horns
3 Trombones
Tuba
Strings
Recordings
- 195? – Vienna Symphony Orchestra (Professor Haefner)
- 1954 – Philadelphia Orchestra (Eugene Ormandy)
- 1958 – Philharmonia Orchestra (Paul Hindemith)
- 1960 – Radio Sinfonie Orchester Stuttgart (Paul Hindemith)
- 1964 – New York Philharmonic (Leonard Bernstein)
- 1972 – Boston Symphony (William Steinberg)
- 1979 – Philadelphia Orchestra (Eugene Ormandy)
- 1981 – Philip Jones Ensemble (Elgar Howarth)
- 1991 – Israel Philharmonic (Leonard Bernstein)
- 1991 – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (Werner Andreas Albert)
- 1993 – San Francisco Symphony (Herbert Blomstedt)
- 1996 – Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Jiří Bělohlávek)
- 2001 – BBC Philharmonic (Yan Pascal Tortelier)
- 2013 – BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (Martyn Brabbins)
- 2013 – NDR Sinfonieorchester (Chistoph Eschenbach)
- 2014 – Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Kurt Masur)