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Composer or Director: Ervín Schulhoff
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: Challenge Classics
Magazine Review Date: 02/2017
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 59
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: CC72730

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 |
Ervín Schulhoff, Composer
Andrew Grams, Conductor Daahoud Salim, Piano Ervín Schulhoff, Composer Symphony Orchestra of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam |
Suite No 3 for Left Hand Piano |
Ervín Schulhoff, Composer
Daahoud Salim, Piano Ervín Schulhoff, Composer |
Suite dansante en jazz |
Ervín Schulhoff, Composer
Daahoud Salim, Piano Ervín Schulhoff, Composer |
Ironien |
Ervín Schulhoff, Composer
Ervín Schulhoff, Composer Nadzeda Filippova, Piano |
Author: Rob Cowan
The other ‘accompanied’ composition included is for piano four hands (where Salim is joined by Nadezda Filippova), the Ironies, Op 34 of 1923, its closing movements – Allegro deciso and Tempo de fox – dominated by the brand of ‘theatre jazz’ that was at the hub of Schulhoff’s ‘Roaring Twenties’ phase. The Third Suite for the left hand (1926) is more securely grounded in mainstream 20th-century piano music, the Prelude in Debussy, the third movement unmistakably reflecting Bartók in Hungarian ‘folk dance’ mode, the finale more along the lines of Ravel. But perhaps the most impressive work on the disc is the Suite dansante en jazz of 1931, where jazz is absorbed in a more sophisticated way, Gershwin a prominent influence, the two slow movements – Waltz and Slow – being especially lovely.
Daahoud Salim has obviously taken great pains over all these pieces, though Kathryn Stott also does a pretty impressive job with the Suite. Her programming context is entirely solo (including the Hot Music or ‘Ten Studies in Syncopation’), whereas Salim’s winning account of the concerto, where he’s very alertly supported by the Symphony Orchestra of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam under Andrew Grams, adds plenty of flavour to his programme. An enjoyable disc, very well recorded.
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