Alma Quartet Amsterdam - Schulhoff Complete String Quartets (2016)

Tracklist

CD1
01. Presto con fuoco
02. Allegretto con moto e con malinconia grotesca
03. Allegro giocosa alla slovacca
04. Andante molto sostenuto
05. Allegro agitato
06. Tema con variazioni. Moderato
07. Allegro gajo
08. Finale. Andante quasi introduzione-Allegro molto
09. Alla Valse Viennese
10. Alla Serenata
11. Alla Czeca
12. Alla Tango Milonga
13. Alla Tarantella
14. Alla Napoletana
15. Alla marcia militaristica in modo europaico 'sketch 1'
16. Alla marcia militaristica in modo europaico 'sketch 2'

CD2
01. Frisch, kräftig
02. Langsam, getragen und ausdrucksvoll
03. Menuett
04. Rondo. Ein weig lebhaft
05. Lebhaft
06. Cavatine. Ruhig fließend
07. Intermezzo. Nicht zu schnell
08. Romanze. Ruhig fließend
09. Rondo. Lebhaft


Of all the composers that fall under the term "Degenerate Music" Erwin Schulhoff the most complex. Unlike several anthologies tell us Schulhoff never been in Theresienstadt. He was not killed in Auschwitz. Hybrid Czech composer who had fit into any box was just unlucky. By him applied for Russian citizenship arrived two days late, making it rather ended up in the Soviet Union in the Wülzburg concentration camp, where he died of tuberculosis in 1942. From his early youth Schulhoff was fascinated by everything that was new. Thank he embraced dada and jazz, had a particular preference for the grotesque. His music had boundaries and genres, sometimes even of a "decency" cross.

No wonder that his music does not allow labeling: alone in the works for string quartet you perceive a huge variety of stijlen.Op his Divertimento op.14 and String Quartet op.25 after, all through the Alma Quartet played works were composed between 1923 and 1925. Both, very rhythmic string quartets betrayed Schulhoffs affinity with jazz, the second a little more than the first - and with the Czech folklore.De dedicated to Darius Milhaud '5 Pieces for String Quartet' sound pretty neoclassical 1923. Each refers to a dance or a country. In 'Alla Valse Viennese' hinted the "waltzes of Ochs 'by and' Alla Tango Milonga" You can only think of Argentina.

Of all hitherto existing recordings of quartets by Schulhoff was that of the Petersen Quartet (Cappricio) my dearest. Their performance I still great, but now they need to recognize their multiple in their Amsterdam counterparts. Grandioos.Enorme plume also Vruchtvlees.com for the design of the cover and the cover of the box. Not only very colorful and cheerful, but also perfectly with the music of Schulhoff appropriate.

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