Paul Hindemith: Complete Works, Vol. II-6: Orchestral Works 1949-51
Edited by Giselher Schubert on commission from the Fondation Hindemith, Mainz: Schott Music, 2015
The latest volume issued by the Hindemith Complete Edition contains the Sinfonietta in E (1949/50) and the Symphonie “Die Harmonie der Welt“ (1951). The rarely performed Sinfonietta in E was composed in response to a commission from the Louisville Orchestra (Kentucky, USA). In the Symphonie “Die Harmonie der Welt“, the stage actions in the opera of the same name about the astronomer Johannes Kepler, completed later, have been condensed into a three-movement orchestral work.
Lieder 1933-1939
For high voice and piano
Edited by Luitgard Schader
Mainz: Schott Music, 2015 (ED 22458)
Between 1933 and 1939 Hindemith composed a series of Lieder with piano accompaniment. Due to the great political pressure in which he found himself during the first years of Nazi rule, these Lieder were not published at that time and also remained unpublished after the end of the Second World War. All 17 Lieder, settings of poems by Clemens Brentano, Matthias Claudius, Agostino da Cruz, Gottfried Keller, Novalis, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Rückert and Angelus Silesius, are now available as a first publication in a separate edition.
Three Early Pieces
For piano
Edited by Bernhard Billeter and Susanne Schaal-GotthardtMainz: Schott Music, 2015 (ED 22239)
The three piano pieces Lied (1921), Berceuse für Klavierpianoforte 1921) and Klavierstück (1929) remained unpublished during Hindemith‘s lifetime and were issued for the first time in 1990 in the Hindemith Complete Edition. They are now available in a compact separate edition as well.