🇩🇪Paul Hindemith ： Ludus Tonalis Interlude Very Broad

One of the interludes in Hindemith’s Ludus Tonalis, this piece is strongly characterized by the spacious sense of time suggested by the marking “Very Broad.” Rather than placing rapid virtuosity in the foreground, it carefully highlights the intervals between notes and the changing resonance, while its overlapping voices make the piano sound polyphonically, as if it were more than a single instrument. The phrases should be shaped on a broad scale, avoiding an overly mechanical regularity of the beat and clarifying the progress and breathing of each voice. Use the pedal only so far as it does not cloud the resonance, and remain aware of the beginnings and endings of notes within the broad tempo; this brings out the quiet tension and weighty after-resonance.