Erwin Schulhoff - Partita (1920)

[Tubatoofpaste]

Thanks for posting this. I'm currently rehearsing the flute sonata.

[PaduaFernandes]

These recordings of Schulhoff's music by the composer himself can be found in the disc Schulhoff: Concerts alla jazz, from Decca.

[merrihew]

Thank you VERY much for this info. Actually, the title is Concertos Alla Jazz. Very hard to find, at least in the US - I had to pay $48.

[PaduaFernandes]

You're welcome. The discs from the series Entartete Musik are now hard to find. I was lucky to buy this cd in Buenos Aires (in Brazil, I could not find it).

[tightlygagged]

I'm assuming that the extremely fine playing is in fact Schulhoff's own?

[merrihew]

yes

[Vladipiano]

Very interesting! His music perfectly reflects the 1920-s atmosphere. Thank you for posting!

[merrihew]

He made quite a few records but they are very difficult to find. Thanks for uploading your playing of his works.

[cleomagoolando]

Have you considered converting this LP to MP3 somehow, if only for posterity's sake?

[merrihew]

I simply have too many records to even think about such an overwhelming project. I'll always have the original and, of course, now its on YT.

[thinking213]

most of the work would have been done while recording this. Converting to mp3 is the quickest part. ;)

[cleomagoolando]

Very nice to be able to hear some of Schulhoff's work. Just like Tansman, Harsanyi, and Mihalovici, this fine composer's music is sadly off the map for most people.

[mesophyte]

What a treasure! I have the complete score for this piece (it has a total of 8 movements)and, after having played through it a number of times, I can't help but wonder if Schulhoff derived many of the Partita's themes from R. Whiting's "The Japanese Sandman." This borrowing, if it isn't merely a figment of my imagination, is most apparent in mvt 2 (not included on this disc), but it's also audible to some extent in all the other jazz-inspired movements. Does anyone else get this impression?

[kspm01]

Fantastic to hear a vintage recording of Schulhoff's music. A very good composer who is not well-remembered today.

[merrihew]

You may be the only Youtuber who has heard of him. A fellow collector has many of his original records and I was quite taken with them. This is the only one I've been able to find and it came from Argentina!

[kspm01]

He is not totally forgotten; for instance Channel Classics issued several interesting cd's of his chamber music, and also in the Czech Republic a few remarkable recordings were made.

[merrihew]

Yes, I know that there are a fair number of recordings of his music but I wish someone would reissue his own '20's piano recordings.

[kspm01]

I'm afraid no record producer has seen this post yet, he would immediately realize the value of those recordings (and not only as a historical document, but also artistically).

[transformingArt]

very fine tune...Thanks for posting!