Chamber music No. 3

The seven chamber music pieces are among Hindemith's most successful instrumental works of the 1920s and, in addition, of the new music of that time per se. At the world premiere of Chamber Music No. 1, the audience even demanded a repetition of the third and fourth movements. But the title is misleading: The individual pieces actually have concertante soloistic features instead of submitting to chamber music traditions. And so Chamber Music No. 3 is written for violoncello obbligato and 10 solo instruments. The score is based on Vol. VI/1 (PHA 401) of the Hindemith Complete Edition, edited by Giselher Schubert.