Hausmusik: 20th Century Chamber Music for the Home

Track Listings
1. Rondo für drei Gitarren (1925) Paul Hindemith    
2. Für Sopran-Blockflöte und Gitarre (1:05) - Hindemith, Paul    
3. Für zwei Blockflöten und ein drittes Instrument (2:07) - Hindemith, Paul    
4. Für Violine und Gitarre (1:26) - Hindemith, Paul    
5. Für Sopran-Blockflöte und Violine (0:52) - Hindemith, Paul    
6. Für Violine und Klavier (1:29) - Hindemith, Paul    
7. Für Violine, Klavier, Gitarre, und Sopran-Blockflöte - Hindemith, Paul    
8. Sechs Musiken (1963) Hans Erich Apostel    
9. Sechs Musiken (1963) Hans Erich Apostel    
10. Sechs Musiken (1963) Hans Erich Apostel    
11. Sechs Musiken (1963) Hans Erich Apostel    
12. Sechs Musiken (1963) Hans Erich Apostel    
13. Hausmusik (1959) Ernst Krenek    
14. Hausmusik (1959) Ernst Krenek    
15. Hausmusik (1959) Ernst Krenek    
16. Hausmusik (1959) Ernst Krenek    
17. Hausmusik (1959) Ernst Krenek    
18. Hausmusik (1959) Ernst Krenek    
19. Hausmusik (1959) Ernst Krenek    
20. Guitar Variations (1994) William Anderson    
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Editorial Reviews
David Denton, Fanfare
"Anderson’s playing is of a high order of dexterity, virtuosity, and brilliance..."

Leo Kraft, The Music Connoisseur
"William Anderson is one of our finest guitar players."

Album Description
Hausmusik, 20th Century Chamber Music for the Home, takes some examples of hausmusik (also known as gebrauchsmusik) by Paul Hindemith and Ernst Kreneck and builds from there a collection of fantastic, sometimes surreal compositions.

Hausmusik: 20th Century Chamber Music for the Home

Hausmusik: 20th Century Chamber Music for the Home, Music, William Anderson, Hans Erich Apostel, Milton Babbitt, Jonathan Dawe, Olga Gorelli, Paul Hindemith, Ernst Krenek, Robert (composer) Martin, Marc Wolf, Oren Fader, William Anderson, Thomas Zajac, Chamber, Chamber Music, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Classical Collections-Composer Desc., Classical Music, Trio for Three String Instruments
Hausmusik: 20th Century Chamber Music for the Home
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Fine collection of unusual music
  • Great performances but pieces can be uneven
  • Brilliant
  • Wow!
  • Unique and Spectacular Guitar recording
 Hausmusik: 20th Century Chamber Music for the Home

Manufacturer: Furious Artisans
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

TriosTrios | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
All Works by HindemithAll Works by Hindemith | Hindemith, Paul | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
Krenek, ErnstKrenek, Ernst | ( K ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
Chamber MusicChamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
CompilationsCompilations | Classical | Styles | Music
ClassicalClassical | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00004YYO1
Release Date: 2000-09-21

Tracks:

  1. Rondo fi Gitarren (1925) Paul Hindemith
  2. Fran-Blockflund Gitarre (1:05) - Hindemith, Paul
  3. Fi Blockfl und ein drittes Instrument (2:07) - Hindemith, Paul
  4. Fline und Gitarre (1:26) - Hindemith, Paul
  5. Fran-Blockflund Violine (0:52) - Hindemith, Paul
  6. Fline und Klavier (1:29) - Hindemith, Paul
  7. Fline, Klavier, Gitarre, und Sopran-Blockfl- Hindemith, Paul
  8. Sechs Musiken (1963) Hans Erich Apostel
  9. Sechs Musiken (1963) Hans Erich Apostel
  10. Sechs Musiken (1963) Hans Erich Apostel
  11. Sechs Musiken (1963) Hans Erich Apostel
  12. Sechs Musiken (1963) Hans Erich Apostel
  13. Hausmusik (1959) Ernst Krenek
  14. Hausmusik (1959) Ernst Krenek
  15. Hausmusik (1959) Ernst Krenek
  16. Hausmusik (1959) Ernst Krenek
  17. Hausmusik (1959) Ernst Krenek
  18. Hausmusik (1959) Ernst Krenek
  19. Hausmusik (1959) Ernst Krenek
  20. Guitar Variations (1994) William Anderson
  21. Guitar Variations (1994) William Anderson
  22. Guitar Variations (1994) William Anderson
  23. Guitar Variations (1994) William Anderson
  24. Under the Tafelmusik (1998) Jonathan Dawe
  25. Suite for Guitar (1957) Ernst Krenek
  26. Suite for Guitar (1957) Ernst Krenek
  27. Suite for Guitar (1957) Ernst Krenek
  28. Suite for Guitar (1957) Ernst Krenek
  29. Suite for Guitar (1957) Ernst Krenek

Album Description

Hausmusik, 20th Century Chamber Music for the Home, takes some examples of hausmusik (also known as gebrauchsmusik) by Paul Hindemith and Ernst Kreneck and builds from there a collection of fantastic, sometimes surreal compositions.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Fine collection of unusual music.......2007-04-03

While I haven't warmed to every piece of music on this CD just yet (I have only had it a few days), I have to agree with another reviewer that serial music played on a variety of recorders is an unexpected delight. William Anderson's guitar playing is tasteful, and has good tonal variety.

If you like serial or heavily chromatic music, it's definitely one to savor.

3 out of 5 stars Great performances but pieces can be uneven.......2003-05-02

The primary reason I bought this CD was for the recordings of Hindemith's Rondo (he's a favorite of mine) and Krenek's Hausmusik. Hindemith fans who want to hear his writing for guitar will want to give this CD a shot; the Rondo is given a fantastic performance that reminds me of Nikita Koshkin playing his own works (particularly Usher Waltz and the Elves). Hausmusik by Krenek is also well worth buying this CD. I prefer Tilmann Hoppstock's performance of the suite for solo guitar.

The other works didn't make such an impression on me, particularly not the Babbitt (though, to be fair, there's much worse guitar literature out there from the same period). Since I bought this CD entirely for Hausmusik and the Rondo my not being awe-struck by the other works is hardly something I'll count against great performances of the pieces I wanted to hear.

5 out of 5 stars Brilliant.......2002-06-28

The work explores a diversity of motifs. Parts vary from being very rhythmic to somewhat atonal to very ethereal. The diversity makes this a wonderful CD that I liken to a musical journey through space and time. Highly recommended. Another fine work from Furious Artisans.

5 out of 5 stars Wow!.......2000-10-25

This is the best classical guitar recording now on the market. There is no guitarist who can play with such nuance as William Anderson. The music on this disc ranges from fun and splashy (Hindemith, Kreneck and Gorelli) to richly decorative (Anderson, Hindemith) to surprising (Martin and Dawe, Apostel). The idea of doing a compilation of 20th Century chamber music for the home is something that someone should have thought of doing a long time ago. In the case of music of Hindemith, Kreneck and Apostel, these are works from a culture that had exhausted itself in the most spectacular fashion (as described in Thomas Mann's Dr. Faustus or Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities)-- a culture headed over a cliff. The German/Austrian Hausmusik movement addressed the alienation of the middle class musical patrons who were alienated by music's progress. But Anderson slyly switches the scene to America--Kreneck and Hindemith both spent the latter part of their lives here. The American music on this collection is not at all beholden to Europe, but it has whole-heartedly embraced, and even surpassed its European musical predecessors, ultimately achieving that incredible kind of sea-change that is the quintessence of American culture.

5 out of 5 stars Unique and Spectacular Guitar recording.......2000-10-12

Hausmusik features classical guitarist William Anderson with his colleagues from the Cygnus Ensemble in stunning performances of 20th c. solo and chamber music, much of which has never been recorded before. The disc opens with a splashy irresistable rendition of Hindemith's Rondo for Three Guitars (1925). The recording takes its title from a composition by Kreneck call Hausmusik. In this set of 7 short pieces recorders, violin, guitar and piano are used in different combinations. Despite the domestic intent of the music, these are striking pieces. It is fabulous to hear recorders used as vehicles for Kreneck's atonal language. Hans Erich Apostel's Sechs Musiken gets spectacular treatment in Anderson's Hands. These European works are mirrored by American music that is also tied in with the hausmusik idea--Robert Martin's exquisite little piece called Henry's Lullaby was written for Anderson's son Henry. Jon Dawe's Under the Tafelmusik takes the Hausmusik theme into surreal world that time trips from the 17th century Baroque period to Y2K post-serialism. It is a crazy piece with great rhythmic drive. Anderson's Variations combine Baroque brisee writing with almost-tonal harmony. The second variation is Schumannesque. The third is a bubbly faster movement with a pop feel. The theme, Jerome Kern's Long Ago and Far Away is finally heard, not quite intact, in the last variation. None of the American pieces strike one as too European, but they share certain musical values with the European works on the disc--they share a desire to create mulidimensional musical space without getting out of reach of the lay listener. I would say that even about Milton Babbitt's Danci.

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