Tomáš Víšek – Schulhoff: Sonáty a suity pro klavír

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Part of a broadly conceived creative profile of the Prague-based Jewish composer Erwin Schulhoff (1894 - 1942) encompassing 13 CDs, here is a title containing his first two symphonies, offering an insight into Schulhoff's often painful yet always thoroughly honest and well-founded development of a style ranging from early fascination by Beethoven, through Neo-classical reminiscences, to an original, exciting idiom identifying with the avant-garde movement in music between the two world wars. Himself a prominent Czechoslovak piano virtuoso, Schulhoff felt a constant affinity for the instrument: he even took an active part, together with fellow pianist Václav Štěpán, in a curious experiment in the 1920s, during which the two appeared in a synchronized double performance broadcast simultaneously from studios in Prague and Ostrava. He was at his best in his output of small-scale pieces inspired by jazz which he compiled in the form of cycles. Schulhoff's ambition on the plane of form was…