Schulhoff / Schoenberg - Chamber Works
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHAN10515
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 30th March 2009
Contents
Works
Wind Quintet, op.26 (arr. for flute and piano)Concertino for flute, viola and double bass, WV75
Flute Sonata, op.61
Artists
Fenwick Smith (flute)Randall Hodkinson (piano)
Works
Wind Quintet, op.26 (arr. for flute and piano)Concertino for flute, viola and double bass, WV75
Flute Sonata, op.61
Artists
Fenwick Smith (flute)Randall Hodkinson (piano)
About
The repertoire in this recording features two innovative Jewish composers - Erwin Schulhoff and Arnold Schoenberg - who pursued widely differing musical styles, and who met very different fates. The three pieces performed here were completed by August 1924 and March 1927. They are not particularly Jewish in style, but are rather more reflective of the era in which they were written.
Schulhoff was born in Prague to a wealthy Jewish family. A prodigy, he began piano studies at the Prague Conservatory at the urging of Dvorak. In 1923 he settled in Germany where he was receptive to the musical influences then current – principally jazz, neoclassicism and Dadaism. By the late 1930s, Schulhoff had returned to Prague, which was an increasingly perilous city for Jews. He was deported to the Wulzburg concentration camp in the winter of 1941 where he died of tuberculosis.
Fenwick Smith and Randall Hodkinson here perform Schulhoff’s Flute Sonata and Concertino. The instrumentation of the Concertino is unique: flute doubling piccolo, viola and contrabass, and the result is a fine rustic work, described by Schulhoff as: “Moravian seller of shepherds’ flutes in the streets of Prague.”
These two rarely performed works are coupled with the rarely recorded transcription of Schoenberg’s Sonata for Wind Quintet, Op.26 by Felix Greissle. The Quintet was Schoenberg’s first strict twelve-tone composition. Fenwick Smith corresponded with Greissle when preparing the Sonata for performance and recording.
Both artists make their debut with Chandos with this recording.
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