PAUL HINDEMITH (1895-1968): String Quartets, Vol. 3 - No. 1, Op. 2 & No. 4, Op. 22.

Description: Two works from only a few years apart show the young Hindemith's rapid stylistic progression from his consolidation of Brahmsian in the big-scale, 41-minute, four-movement First (1914-15) to the stripped-down counterpoint and brusqueness of expression in the Neue Sachlichkeit style of the Fourth of 1921. Amar Quartet.