Schulhoff & Smit: Les Voix de l’oubli (The Forgotten Voices)

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Schulhoff & Smit: Les Voix de l’oubli (The Forgotten Voices)

Virginie Reibel-Escoffier (flute), David Haroutunian (violin), Romain Descharmes (piano), Valeria Kafelnikov (harpe), Philippe Noharet (contrebasse), Beatrice Reibel-Escoffier (violoncelle), Florent Bremond (alto)

With sympathetic and sensitive performances, and a well-judged church acoustic, this disc presents both composers’ works in highly recommendable fashion. — MusicWeb International, 30th July 2013

Release Date: 2nd Jan 2013
Catalogue No: LVC1128
Label: Saphir Productions
Length: 75 minutes

Schulhoff: Concertino pour flûte, alto et contrebasse

Work length14:34

$4.00

$5.60

Virginie Reibel-Escoffier, Florent Bremond, Philippe Noharet

I. Andante con moto

Track length5:37

$1.00

$1.40

II. Furiant

Track length3:09

$1.00

$1.40

III. Andante

Track length3:45

$1.00

$1.40

IV. Rondino - Allegro gaio

Track length2:03

$1.00

$1.40

Smit: Trio pour flûte, alto et harpe: I. Allegro ma non troppo - II. Scherzando - III. Molto lento

Work length12:14

$2.00

$2.80

Virginie Reibel-Escoffier, Florent Bremond, Valeria Kafelnikov

Schulhoff: Sonate pour flûte et piano

Work length12:22

$4.00

$5.60

Virginie Reibel-Escoffier, Romain Descharmes

I. Allegro moderato

Track length5:25

$1.00

$1.40

II. Scherzo - Allegro giocoso - Aria

Track length1:31

$1.00

$1.40

III. Andante

Track length2:54

$1.00

$1.40

IV. Rondo-finale - Allegro molto gajo

Track length2:32

$1.00

$1.40

Smit: Quintet pour flûte, harpe et trio à cordes

Work length20:42

$4.00

$5.60

Virginie Reibel-Escoffier, Valeria Kafelnikov, David Haroutunian, Florent Bremond, Béatrice Petit

I. Allegro

Track length6:23

$1.00

$1.40

II. Lento

Track length7:17

$1.50

$2.10

III. Allegro vivace

Track length7:02

$1.50

$2.10

Schulhoff: Susi, fox song pour flûte et piano

Work length3:23

$1.00

$1.40

Virginie Reibel-Escoffier, Romain Descharmes

Smit: Sonate pour flûte et piano

Work length11:51

$3.00

$4.20

Virginie Reibel-Escoffier, Romain Descharmes

I. Allegro

Track length2:56

$1.00

$1.40

II. Lento

Track length4:27

$1.00

$1.40

III. Allegro Moderato

Track length4:28

$1.00

$1.40

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The 'regenerated' flute

Cutting a path through the output of two composers little known by the general public, this disc intends to do justice to a repertoire both sadly famous – stigmatised by Nazism – and unjustly forgotten – disdained by the Darmstadt generation. In so doing, this allows for rediscovering what a place of choice the between-the-wars period reserved for the flute, shown to advantage at that time by highly varied instrumental formations.

The Czech Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942) and the Dutchman Leo Smit (1900-1943) were part of that generation of Jewish musicians who died in the concentration camps, like Hans Krása, Viktor Ullmann and Gideon Klein. Held in contempt owing to his Communist involvement and banned from the Berlin stage (where his opera Flammen was to have been premiered), the first figure on the list of artists stigmatised after the 1938 exhibition of 'degenerate' art in Düsseldorf, he was arrested three years later and deported to the Wülzburg concentration camp where he died of tuberculosis on 18 August 1942. As for Smit, he saw his career brutally interrupted by the growing difficulty of Jewish artists to get performed: constrained to go to the Amsterdam Ghetto, he was locked up in the ' Jewish Theatre' then deported to the Sobibor concentration camp, where he was gassed on 30 April 1943.

Beyond this horrifying destiny, Schulhoff and Smit shared a joint French influence. Whereas the former was a multi-facetted creator (between a taste for Czech folklore, progressive inspirations, Dada provocations and a passion for jazz), the latter cultivated a more homogeneous style; but both were marked by Debussy.

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30th July 2013

With sympathetic and sensitive performances, and a well-judged church acoustic, this disc presents both composers’ works in highly recommendable fashion.

Schulhoff & Smit: Les Voix de l’oubli (The Forgotten Voices)

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