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Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Erwin Schulhoff - Forbidden Music (Daahoud Salim)


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Composer: Erwin Schulhoff
  • (01-05) Suite No. 3 for piano left hand, WV 81
  • (06-11) Suite dansante en jazz, WV 98
  • (12-17) Ironien, Op. 34, WV 55, suite for piano 4 hand
  • (18-20) Concerto for Piano and Small Orchestra, Op. 43, WV 66

Daahoud Salim, piano
Nadezda Filippova, piano (12-17)
Symphony Orchestra of the Conservatory van Amsterdam
Andrew Grams, conductor (18-20)

Date: 2016
Label: Challenge Classics
http://www.challengerecords.com/products/14691058093708

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Review

Erwin Schulhoff’s Second Piano Concerto of 1923 is a strange beast, opening among chiming solo figurations, with woodwinds intoning above them, then by 1'51" (on this recording) slipping into ‘song without end’ mode, complete with a weepy violin accompaniment. Pianist Frank-Immo Zichner (with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Roland Kluttig) seems less at home with this aspect of the piece than does Daahoud Salim, though when it comes to the hard-hitting Allegro alla jazz finale Zichner goes for all-out-aggression, at least initially. It’s an impressive work, with expansive cadenza episodes (solo piano and solo violin again engage unaccompanied for a chunk of the finale) and there’s some very mysterious orchestral writing around the centre of the piece.

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.

-- Rob Cowan, Gramophone

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Erwin Schulhoff (8 June 1894 – 18 August 1942) was a Czech composer and pianist. Schulhoff's teachers teachers included Claude Debussy, Max Reger, Fritz Steinbach, and Willi Thern. Schulhoff's music went through a number of distinct stylistic periods. He was one of the first generation of classical composers to find inspiration in the rhythms of jazz. Schulhoff was one of the figures in the generation of European musicians whose successful careers were prematurely terminated by the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany and whose works have been rarely noted or performed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schulhoff

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A graduate of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Daahoud Salim was born in 1990 in Seville, Spain. He studied jazz and classical piano with Ángel Sanzo, Anne Øland and David Kuyken. He has given concerts in Europe, Africa and Asia, where he has performed in some of the most prestigious halls for both jazz and classical music scenes (Concertgebouw, Muziekgebouw, Tivoli Vredenburg, Bimhuis, etc). Salim has performed for the Radio4 and Dutch Television, and won international prizes. His musical activity is divers: soloist, chamber music, jazz ensembles, performing own compositions.
http://www.challengerecords.com/artists/1462260496

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