Schulhoff: Die Wolkenpumpe, Baßnachtigall, Divertissement, ...

Ensemble Villa Musica

MDG 304 0617-2

With this publication of six central Works of Erwin Schulhoff a silence is broken, that half a century ago the National Socialist Propaganda, and that until the western music world has not yet mastered ...has. Born in Prague in 1894 Schulhoff in the course of his short life with all of the Avant-garde currents, including in particular the dadaism and Jazz, before he was born in 1942 in the Fortress Wülzburg - as Jew and Communist interned - deceased. Schulhoff's Concertino for flute found great admirers: No less a person than Béla Bartòk learned the folk music inspired work 1925 in Donaueschingen to know and love - on the viola and on the the brothers Hindemith sat at the cello ... It's the bite of satire that makes the music Schulhoff's today is topical and interesting: His Divertissement, completed at the end of 1927, takes place in the Sentence Florida satirically the America longing of the the golden twenties - and one hears on this recording, how he was able to perform the cult dance of his time, the Charleston. Only the bass nightingale for contrabassoon solo is the Possession of this CD already worth. Schulhoff's Dadaist Phase brought several wonderfully absurd compositions from the ground. In the dedication speech he notices with a side blow to the bourgeois expressionistic Pomposity: The divine spark can be like in a liver sausage also in a contrabassoon must be available. - Now also on this CD …

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

MDG

28-08-2013

760623061726