Paul Hindemith - Sonata for Trombone and Piano (1941) [Score-Video]

Paul Hindemith - Sonata for Trombone and Piano (1941)
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[@tatsuhelma]

0:05 I. Allegro moderato maestoso 2:56 II. Allegretto grazioso 6:00 III. Swashbuckler's song- lied des raufbolds : Allegro pesante 7:54 IV. Allegro moderato maestoso

[@bartjebartmans]

Thanks for sharing this excellent performance of this fun Sonata!

[@Sujkhgfrwqqnvf]

Sonata for trombone and tendinitis.

[@scottbiggs8894]

Whoa! That piece always kills me.

[@noahbretz2013]

Played this for my senior year of HS. Sad that State Solo and Ensemble was cancelled due to Covid. Fun piece to play.

[@qianglee7722]

beautiful sound!

[@mrmfwettlaufer3785]

Beautiful!

[@brianhutchinson8588]

this is a very fun piece. I'm playing this for my freshman student recital

[@chanceatherton575]

Do you have a copy of your recital? My son played this in high school, I think his senior year. Would love to hear someone of same approximate age play it.

[@chanceatherton575]

I have some videos up from some his concerts on my page. Not all are of him. But many are. (Marching band, all district/state, and a few clinics)

[@JD-qd5zp]

@BrainBlaster - I hope you are going to tip your piano accompanist VERY VERY well. $$$$$$$.$$

[@JD-qd5zp]

You will be secondary to the pianist. Just put the spotlight on the pianist and you should just step into the shadows.

[@sbhallsr]

Credits? (Who’s playing this?)

[@heathlester539]

Who is the trombone player?

[@lukastomes1376]

Typical. Sonata for piano with features of trombone.

[@edcvbnji9186]

0:40 grieg piano concerto

[@ivanstrezh3686]

Very powerful, very tragic! Bravo! Thx! This sonata was written in 1941. In Russia they also play, only in second part there is less staccato.

[@TyLo-di5ih]

2:53 is the end of movement one right?

[@Illapatayta]

Tyler-R .Lindström yes

[@trevorsikorski6040]

6:01

[@erolemmioglu2951]

who are the performers?

[@takigan]

If the content ID is right Trombone - Branimir Slokar Piano - Kalle Randalu

[@ryanmartin9203]

Does this piece have 3 or 4 movements?

[@blacksanta5587]

Ryan Martin 4

[@paulmasgalajian8102]

Who is the soloist here ? The only slight advice I would give would be to slow the tempo down a bit. The listener could then better appreciate the complexity of the sonata's masterful construction.

[@carlharper5846]

Sounds like Thomas Horch - I have his album with the Hindemith on it and I'm 99% sure this is the same recording.

[@carlharper5846]

Actually scratch that, the ending doesn't sound like Horch's recording.

[@maxwellkowal3065]

I must say, that second movement has got to be some of the laziest compositional writing I have seen, only giving the trombone the same exact line every time. The line itself is fine, but it's repeated many times and never varies. As good as the rest of the music is, it's sad that composers never treated the instrument as having any more musical merit than this, and they often infantilize it next to its fellow brass compatriots, let alone the other instruments in the orchestra, just because it has a slide that makes certain passages slightly more difficult than instruments with valves/keys, and it isn't the most difficult thing for trombones in the first place. I hope that composers today can give it better treatment than just a glorified blaster and tonguing machine.

[@fstover5208]

Hindemith, lazy? Never!

[@maxwellkowal3065]

@@fstover5208 The trombone part for mvt 2 is, the rest isn't. Mvt 2 is the outlier in that regard and it's why most people will skip it.

[@scottlalexander510]

There are many wonderful solo pieces for trombone. It's important to keep two things in mind: 1. The early trombones were rather crude instruments and were harsh-sounding and difficult to master. Also, because it was associated with demonic possession, hell and the underworld the trombone fell out of favor as a principle ensemble instrument for more than 100 years beginning in the late 17th century. It wasn't until the early 19th century that the trombone began to slowly become popular again when composer such as Beethoven, Berlioz and Wagner used it more and more prominently in their compositions. Instruments such as the piano, violin, harp and wind instruments have always been popular and appeal more to the human ear than a trombone or other larger brass instrument. This is why we find so many more pieces for the former. 2. As for the Hindemith piece here, and particularly the second movement, we must remember that this is a sonata for trombone AND piano. For this reason Hindemith placed the emphasis on the piano part in the second movement where the trombone plays a more accompanying role.

[@pwoody1958]

I think that it’s a deliberate compositional technique that Hindemith is using in that second movement. The development and variation is in the piano part, while the trombone plays the repeated melodic material. The most interesting example of that kind of writing is the Lyke-Wake Dirge from the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings by Benjamin Britten. There, the tenor sings the same music over and over, in the style of a passacaglia, but without breaks, unlike the Hindemith. The orchestra becomes more and more complex to the point where it almost becomes hallucinatory. Absolutely fantastic piece of music that you should check out if you don’t know it.

[@deltafournumbers]

Wow, that couldn't possibly be a compositional technique, could it? Hindemith must have just been lazy. Same goes for anyone who's ever written a passacaglia or used an ostinato. How lazy to repeat material 🙄 Please google the word "ostinato" and then revisit your critique, thanks

[@schniggs2011]

One of the worst performance of this piece I’ve ever heard. Twice too fast, rushed, too urgent, without one regard as the form and integrity of the piece.

[@jonastaschler]

Try and play it better before talking