Building a Library is broadcast on Radio 3 at 9.30am each Saturday as part of Record Review. A highlights podcast is available on BBC Sounds.
The work
For a brief period, Paul Hindemith appeared to have the musical world at his feet. Internationally acclaimed during the early 1930s as a pedagogue and outstanding viola player, his position as the leading German composer of the younger generation seemed unassailable after securing prestigious commissions for new orchestral works from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonicmodifying his creative outlook to embrace a more accessible style.
