Schulhoff Archive
THE YIDDISH CABARET—Jerusalem Quartet—Harmonia mundi
Yiddish cabaret music for string quartet performed with style and refinement.
“Cesko” – Works of SCHULHOFF, & DVORAK – Ragazze Q. – Channel Classics
“Česko” = ERWIN SCHULHOFF: String Quartet No. 1; DVOŘÁK: String Quartet No. 13 in G Major, Op. 106; SCHULHOFF: Esquisses de jazz (arr. Leonard Evers) – Ragazze Quartet – Channel Classics multichannel SACD CCS SA 36815, 65:00 [Distr. Harmonia mundi] (5/15/15) ****: A very attractive program of Bohemian yin and yang. The “young Dutch/British” Ragzze Quartet here presents a program that is obviously dear to their hearts. And if it doesn’t quite seem to mesh as you think about it, both composers are Bohemian (hence the title Česko, the popular Eastern-European nickname for Bohemia), and both tap into the folk traditions of their native land though in very different ways. At the same time, both are cosmopolitan composers whose musical influences came as much from abroad as from their homeland. Erwin Schulhoff was born in Prague of a German-Jewish family. As a child, he met and was encouraged in his musical studies by none other than Dvořák, entering the Prague Conservatory before moving on to Leipzig and Paris, where Schullhoff studied with both Max Reger and Claude Debussy. Quite a musical mix, which certainly influenced his music making. Following service on the Eastern Front during World War I, Schulhoff traveled […]
(Piano for Four Hands) = REGER: Sechs Walzer; SCHULHOFF: Ironien; SHERWOOD: Sonata in Blue; DEBUSSY: Ballade; MENDELSSOHN: Andante und Allegro vivace assai – Mathias Veit & Henning Lucius, piano – Telos Music
The brilliant variety of Romantic and post-Romantic four-hand music has a colorful exposition here from Veit and Lucius.
SCHULHOFF: Suite Dansante en jazz; 11 Inventions; Sonata No. 3; Partita for Clavier – Michal Tal, p. – Centaur
The “Lost Generation” composer Edwin Schulhoff finds conscientious readings of his piano music from Israeli artist Michal Tal.
“Entartete Musik” = BERNHARD HEIDEN: Sonata; PAUL DESSAU: Suite; ERWIN DRESSEL: Bagatellen; ERWIN SCHULHOFF: Hot-Sonate; PAUL HINDEMITH: Sonata; WOLFGANG JACOBI: Sonata; HANS GAL: Suite; ERNST-LOTHAR von KNORR: Sonata – Duo Disecheis – Brilliant Classics (2-CDs)
Mostly interesting collection of some fairly obscure saxophone works.
“Entartete Musik” = BERNHARD HEIDEN: Sonata; PAUL DESSAU: Suite; ERWIN DRESSEL: Bagatellen; ERWIN SCHULHOFF: Hot-Sonate; PAUL HINDEMITH: Sonata; WOLFGANG JACOBI: Sonata; HANS GAL: Suite; ERNST-LOTHAR von KNORR: Sonata – Duo Disecheis – Brilliant Classics (2-CDs)
Mostly interesting collection of some fairly obscure saxophone works.
![SCHULHOFF: Concertos [TrackList follows] – Deutsches Symphonie-Orch. Berlin/ Roland Kluttig – Capriccio](https://www.audaud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/SchulhoffConcerti.jpg)
SCHULHOFF: Concertos [TrackList follows] – Deutsches Symphonie-Orch. Berlin/ Roland Kluttig – Capriccio
It looks like the time for this Dadaist/revolutionary/ jazz enthusiast composer has finally arrived.
SCHULHOFF: Violin Sonatas – Suite for violin and piano; Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano; Sonata for solo violin; Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano – Tanja Becker-Bender, violin/ Markus Becker, piano – Hyperion
Late Romantic and early modern violin sonatas by Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff, sumptuously performed and recorded.
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