Composer: Erwin Schulhoff
Performer: Tanja Becker-Bender, Markus Becker
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDA67833
Release: 2011
Size: 313 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Suite for violin and piano, WV18
01. I. Präludium: Stürmisch
02. II. Gavotte: Mäßig
03. III. Menuetto
04. IV. Walzer
05. V. Scherzo: Schnell
Sonata for violin and piano No 1, WV24
06. I. Wuchtig
07. II. Ruhig
08. III. Scherzo: Bewegt
09. IV. Rondo: Nicht zu schnell
Sonata for solo violin, WV83
10. I. Allegro con fuoco
11. II. Andante sostenuto
12. III. Scherzo: Allegretto grazioso
13. IV. Allegro risoluto
Sonata for violin and piano No 2, WV91
14. I. Allegro impetuoso
15. II. Andante
16. III. Burlesca: Allegretto
17. IV. Allegro risoluto
The German violinist Tanja Becker-Bender burst onto the recording scene with a dazzling set of Paganini’s Caprices which thrilled the critics. She appears here in a second disc for Hyperion with her compatriot, Markus Becker, who has made two acclaimed recordings for the label.
Erwin Schulhoff: jazz enthusiast, sometime Dadaist, surrealist and committed communist. These are some of the labels that spring to mind for this extraordinary figure, but Schulhoff was a more complex and wide-ranging musician than any neat tags suggest. This Prague-born prodigy had an intensive training rooted in the Austro-German tradition from before the age of ten, and later studied with Max Reger and Fritz Steinbacher. His music is impossible to pin down stylistically – even at a particular stage of his career. His music for violin is often outrageously virtuosic and never less than fascinating.