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Stathis Karapanos

The Complete Works for Flute of Paul Hindemith

Release Date: July 12, 2024

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1 Concerto for 5 Soloists Mov 1  
2 Concerto for 5 Soloists Mov 2  
3 Concerto for 5 Soloists Mov 3  
4 8 Pieces for Solo Flute No 1  
5 8 Pieces for Solo Flute No 2  
6 8 Pieces for Solo Flute No 3  
7 8 Pieces for Solo Flute No 4  
8 8 Pieces for Solo Flute No 5  
9 8 Pieces for Solo Flute No 6  
10 8 Pieces for Solo Flute No 7  
11 8 Pieces for Solo Flute No 8  
12 Sonata for Flute and Piano 1st mov  
13 Sonata for Flute and Piano 2nd mov  
14 Sonata for Flute and Piano 3rd mov  
15 Canonic Sonatina for Two Flutes 1st mov  
16 Canonic Sonatina for Two Flutes 2nd mov  
17 Canonic Sonatina for Two Flutes 3rd mov  
18 Echo for Flute and Piano  
19 Enthusiasm (World Premiere) for Flute and Viola  
20 Abendkonzert for Flute and Strings  
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Paul Hindemith had studied violin in Frankfurt am Main, was hired as the concertmaster of the Frankfurt Opera House Orchestra already at the age of nineteen, and performed as a violist and viola d’amore instrumentalist with renowned soloists and orchestras in Germany and foreign countries for many years prior to devoting the last years of his career to conducting. He composed many of his works for his own use during his many years of concert activity.

At the same time, however, from Hindemith’s earliest years onward his interest in composition ranged over a considerably broader spectrum. He wrote a sonata for almost every instrument of the orchestra as well as solo concertos for some of them. Here he succeeded in optimally exploiting the qualities typical of each instrument both in sound and technique because he himself had a command of almost all of them – and of some of them a command on a considerable level. Along with his professional concert activity and the education of future composers, throughout his life Hindemith dedicated himself to an often-neglected area of music culture: the performance of music by amateurs. Even in his last lecture he stated of this: “Conquering the world with sensations is not all that difficult. It is much more difficult to write music for children, for amateur players, for amateur choirs, in short, to produce music for people who can do little or almost nothing musically.”

Accordingly, along with compositions for professional flutists, Hindemith also wrote works for children and adult amateurs in which the flute assumes a leading role. A composition for this instrument sketched on the blackboard is extant from his composition classes.

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    Posted At: September 20, 2024 12:00 AM
    Stathis Karapanos writes……Born in Athens, Greece in September of 1996, son to a ballet dancer, a banker and future brother to a then unborn sister, at the age of 5, I declared my love for the flute, practiced and performed in all the places I have lived and in the airplane in between.   When I realised my love for music and after a long year of trying to persuade both of my parents, I enrolled at the N...
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  • Stathis Karapanos new album brings fresh attention to Hindemith's flute music legacy / EarRelevant
    Posted At: July 29, 2024 12:00 AM
    EarRelevant's Giorgio Koukl writes….Dedicating an entire album to flute music of the German composer Paul Hindemith is certainly a laudable purpose for which we can be grateful to the Greek flutist Stathis Karapanos. The inevitable fact that there are not enough pieces to fill an entire CD is elegantly solved by including some orchestral music, where the flute is one of the soloists, or inserting extracts o...
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  • Stathis Karapanos releases 'The Complete Works for Flute of Paul Hindemith'
    Posted At: July 26, 2024 12:00 AM
    Paul Hindemith had studied violin in Frankfurt am Main, was hired as the concertmaster of the Frankfurt Opera House Orchestra already at the age of nineteen, and performed as a violist and viola d’amore instrumentalist with renowned soloists and orchestras in Germany and foreign countries for many years prior to devoting the last years of his career to conducting. He composed many of his works for his own u...
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