Killed by the Nazis, revived on the violin
Album Of The WeekFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
Eighty years after his cruel death in a Nazi camp, the Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff is having something of a revival this month, with an opera staged in Prague and two sonatas coming out on record. Coming of age in the Roaring Twenties, Schulhoff soaked up every fleeting trend – jazz, serialism, ragtime, nightclubs – without losing touch with his core purpose….
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En francais ici.
At The Critic
The Pejacevic ‘Sonata Slava’ filler? No. It is a wonderful piece.
Berlin Phil with Kirill Petrenko are performing Erwin Schulhoff’s Symphony Nr. 2 in their current programme – tonight! https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/konzerte/kalender/details/53836/