Schulhoff: Chamber Music
Spectrum Concerts Berlin
This fascinating release demonstrates the breadth of [Schulhoff’s] interests in four strikingly contrasted works…the stellar soloists featured here certainly play the music with great conviction...
Schulhoff: Chamber Music
Spectrum Concerts Berlin
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This fascinating release demonstrates the breadth of [Schulhoff’s] interests in four strikingly contrasted works…the stellar soloists featured here certainly play the music with great conviction...
About
The music of the Prague-born prodigy Erwin Schulhoff has become increasingly popular in recent decades. He moved through successive creative phases and, on this recording, Spectrum Concerts Berlin focuses on music written between 1924 and 1927. The Cinq Études de jazz explore the “rhythmic intoxication” he described in a letter to Alban Berg, while the Duo for violin and cello and the Violin Sonata No.2 offer striking parallels to similar works by Bartók, Kodály, and Debussy. The String Sextet contains violent contrasts and almost Cubist montage and was a key work in Schulhoff’s artistic development.
Contents and tracklist
- Spectrum Concerts Berlin
- Boris Brovtsyn, Eldar Nebolsin
- Valeriy Sokolov, Jens Peter Maintz
- Eldar Nebolsin
Awards and reviews
March 2017
This fascinating release demonstrates the breadth of [Schulhoff’s] interests in four strikingly contrasted works…the stellar soloists featured here certainly play the music with great conviction and the CD offers a good introduction to a prodigiously talented composer
January 2017
No praise is too high for Spectrum Concerts Berlin, who spare no effort in bringing Schulhoff freshly to life. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to find a more winning introduction to his output, which is also beautifully recorded
