As the twenty first century progresses, Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff's posthumous reputation has grown at an impressive rate. Only reintroduced to the public in the 1990s, Schulhoff's music has come conspicuously into vogue, mainly in Europe, but audiences everywhere seem to find him especially interesting. And why not? Schulhoff's music is dry, effervescent, edgy, witty, urbane, sophisticated, and suffused with the energy of the modern age. Phoenix Edition's Erwin Schulhoff: Solo Piano Works, featuring pianist Margarete ...
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As the twenty first century progresses, Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff's posthumous reputation has grown at an impressive rate. Only reintroduced to the public in the 1990s, Schulhoff's music has come conspicuously into vogue, mainly in Europe, but audiences everywhere seem to find him especially interesting. And why not? Schulhoff's music is dry, effervescent, edgy, witty, urbane, sophisticated, and suffused with the energy of the modern age. Phoenix Edition's Erwin Schulhoff: Solo Piano Works, featuring pianist Margarete Babinsky with the assistance of two other pairs of hands in four-hand works -- Maria Lettberg and Andreas Wykydal -- brings together a very appealing program of Schulhoff's piano music, a good deal of it heretofore unknown on recordings. There is considerable concentration on his period of "esques"; suites of pieces that end in the suffix "esque" that date from the end of World War I to about 1920. These are a hodgepodge of different movements that range from rather angular and...
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