Trapeze Artists in Blue (1914) by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) Private Collection / Bridgeman Art Library, London CDA68014 Recording details: November 2012 Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin, Germany Produced by Ludger Böckenhoff Engineered by Ludger Böckenhoff Release date: November 2013 Total duration: 56 minutes 59 seconds 'These new performances prove to be everything that one would wish for in these taxing and often elusive works … A valuable release' (International Record Review) Hindemith’s Violin Sonatas fascinatingly mirror the various stages in the development of his musical language from the vocabulary of late Romanticism to the monumental, contrapuntal and revivified Baroque idiom of his maturity. They are performed here by virtuoso German violinist Tanja Becker-Bender who has made a speciality of the music of the early twentieth century.