III (Ninth Season)
To be given before an audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House
A Hindemith Programme
IRENE KOHLER (pianoforte)
THE B.B.C. ORCHESTRA
(Section D)
Led by LAURANCE TURNER
Conducted by PAUL HINDEMITH Concert Music (for Pianoforte, Brass and Harps)
Composed in 1930, this work was commissioned by Mrs. Coolidge and had its first performance at Chicago in August of the same year. Mrs. Elizabeth Coolidge founded an annual Festival in 1918, in which the foremost European, as well as American, artists have taken part year by year ; besides commissioning works, particularly chamber music, for these, Mrs. Coolidge instituted an annual prize of 1,000 dollars for a chamber music work, and that, too, has frequently gone to European composers.
Hindemith's piece, laid out with rigid simplicity, is for pianoforte solo. accompanied by brass instruments (horns, trumpets, trombones, and tuba) and two harps.
Symphonie, Mathis der Maler (Mathias the Painter)
1. Engelkonzert (Concert of Angels); 2. Grablegung (Interment); 3. Versuchung des heiligen Antonius (Temptation of Saint Anthony)