Berlin 1923: Beethoven & Schulhoff Piano Concertos

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this new [recording] is uncommonly effective, well recorded, sharp-edged and witty, with Herbert Schuch a crisp soloist...Schuch has a way of maintaining pulse and energy while finding room for... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 12th Jan 2024
Catalogue No: AVI8553539
Label: Avi Music
Length: 72 minutes

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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15

Work length38:11

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Herbert Schuch (piano)
WDR Sinfonieorchester
Tung-Chieh Chuang
Recorded: 2021-12
Recording Venue: Philharmonie Köln

I. Allegro con brio

Track length17:51

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II. Largo

Track length11:05

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III. Rondo. Allegro

Track length9:15

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Schulhoff: Concerto for Piano & Small Orchestra, Op. 43, WV 66

Work length19:33

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Herbert Schuch (piano)
WDR Sinfonieorchester
Tung-Chieh Chuang
Recorded: 2021-12
Recording Venue: Philharmonie Köln

I. Molto sostenuto

Track length5:52

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II. Sostenuto

Track length7:22

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IIIa. Allegro alla Jazz

Track length2:39

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IIIb. Subito sostenuto ma alla breve. Alla zingaresca

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IIIc. Tempo I (Allegro molto)

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Ludwig van Beethoven, Erwin Schulhoff: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15

Work length15:03

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Herbert Schuch (piano), Erwin Schulhoff (cadenzor)
WDR Sinfonieorchester
Tung-Chieh Chuang
Recorded: 2021-12
Recording Venue: Philharmonie Köln

I. Allegro con brio (Cadenza: Schulhoff)

Track length15:03

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Pianist Herbert Schuch looks at the connections between Beethoven's Piano Concertos and the Concerto for Piano and Small Orchestra by Erwin Schulhoff.

Schuch: "Indeed, it's quite exciting to look at what was going on exactly 100 years ago - perhaps because 1923 doesn't seem all that distant to us. Certain events and circumstances seem to mirror one another a century apart. From a musical point of view, Erwin Schulhoff's piano concerto is a truly interesting work that has not attained the recognition it deserves. . ...

In terms of style, the piano concerto, composed between 11 June and 10 July 1923, is one of those works where Schulhoff radically deals with the dance types of jazz, which had crossed the Atlantic at the end of the First World War and spread out from Paris until taking all of Europe by storm..... No other pair of composers could be more different - on paper - than these two.

Schulhoff always took a decisive stance against traditionalism. Indeed, he may have been something of an iconoclast, but he was also a talented and well-trained pianist - a pianist who wanted to earn success in that very role. Of course, Schulhoff studied the Beethoven concertos, performed them, and ultimately also took the opportunity (like many other composers before him) to put his stamp on these works by writing his own cadenzas......

...It was also in Berlin - in February 1923, to be exact - that Schulhoff conceived and worked out the cadenzas for the first four Beethoven piano concertos ......."(Excerpts from the booklets notes)

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March 2024

this new [recording] is uncommonly effective, well recorded, sharp-edged and witty, with Herbert Schuch a crisp soloist...Schuch has a way of maintaining pulse and energy while finding room for rubato, and his gentle pulling back in some episodes is spine-tingling.

February 2024

I’m happy to report that this Beethoven performance is a delight overall. Schuch comes across as a sparkling raconteur, one who knows how to make his storytelling especially vivid, whether he’s pellucidly articulating a florid passage or sculpting a melody.

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