Erwin Schulhoff: Concerto per pianoforte e piccola orchestra op.43 (1923)

[@mrbrianmccarthy]

WHY is this composer not more well known? Absolute genius. So original and beautiful. Erwin Schulhof. Genius.

[@stueystuey1962]

He captures the mood of a moment, a time and place, but does not anticipate the future. Iotw it is popular music par excellence, thrilling,enjoyable and gorgeous as it is it wears thin upon repeated listenings. Perhaps worthy of listening to once or twice a year. Webern, as just one example, I listen to morning, noon and night, the same works, every day, over and over, with sustained enjoyment, intrigue, and mystical abandon. This wondeful Piano Concerto by Schulhoff is "fun" music but does not have a lasting impact on my soul or psyche, which is of the utmost importance and determines my listening choices. To say it in a rather crude almost blasphemous sense, as tasty as it is it is fast food with little to no enduring nutritional value. Checkout something like Wuroinen's 3rd Piano Concerto - which appears much much later than the Schulhoff but nevertheless sublimates free from jazz, Eastern gemelan sounds, traditional Western style orchestration, but never quite being any of those things, and winding up being much much more than the sum of its parts.

[@fransmeersman2334]

Thank you for this absolute magnificent 20 th century piano concerto. Composer Erwin Schulhoff a name to remember !

[@MegaCirse]

Magnifique! J'écoute ce concerto pour la énième fois, fasciné par les excentricités stylistiques et les changements d'harmonies. C'est une performance merveilleuse , rythmiquement vivante de couleurs et de chaleur........

[@artofmusic303]

Wow - a fascinating piece. This composer should be more well known.

[@finnreyansh5234]

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[@jacobjake482]

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[@nataliagarcia5733]

Una obra maravillosa. Gracias, por siempre, Schulhoff.

[@organopleno2000]

Absolument magnifique !! Tel David Vincent, j'ai découvert ce concerto en écoutant France musique dans ma voiture, alors que je m'étais perdu en lointaine banlieue de Paris... Quelle découverte !!!

[@stephenjablonsky241]

A great deal of music you find on KZbin is much ado about nothing. It is often hard to find masterpieces that are off the beaten path. Well, this is a special find. It may well be one of Schulhoff's best pieces. I predict that, with time, this will become part of the standard repertoire. Someone call Yuja and Lang Lang and tell them about this beauty. It is engaging from start to finish and has magical moments that linger in the memory. It is modern but attractive, luscious and lyrical.

[@grahamlockwood6242]

This is the first time I have heard this. A fantastic piece, so many colours and rhythms. I thought I had heard pieces by most 20th century composers but have never come across Schulhoff's music before. I shall be searching out more of his music and have now bought a recording of this concerto, love it.

[@ihadaralf]

This is superb; a riot of sensory pleasures. The opening's stunning.

[@user-sk1pj2mx5o]

A genius! this music deserves to be more known

[@Protonixum]

Excellent compositeur !!!!!!!!

[@rabuba1]

Danke! ich bin begeistert!

[@infuturum4195]

Ich finde die Musik Schulhoffs auch bemerkenswert. Kannst ja mal auf meinem Kanal vorbei schauen, ich habe dort seine ersten drei Piano-Sonaten hochgeladen. Bin generell ein großer Fan von ihm, werde also definitiv auf der Suche nach mehr sein

[@mirrors1]

Che triste fine che ha fatto l'autore, morire in un campo di concentramento. Un altro genio tolto alla musica precocemente

[@NOSEhow2LIV]

Gorgeous! I'm listening for the third time, fascinote by the stylistic eccentricities and mood changes. Can't get over that expansive romantic opening and the odd noises that follow. A marvellous performance too, rythmically alive with colors and warmth.

[@nostalgicmodernist1399]

What a great piece! So surprising in its episodes -- so deeply narrative! Thanks for posting!

[@bowerdw]

An exceptional work that apparently has gotten lost in a sea of exceptional works now available on KZbin via a host of different contributors.

[@stevebartley8902]

Well. That was a surprise. It's always great to discover someone who has never cropped up over the many years I have spent on this amazing planet. Where should I go next?

[@kassandragauthier5199]

Interessantissimo!!Grazie per postare!

[@Alix777.]

Thank you very much, tremendous work

[@philippecartondetournai5546]

Superbe ! Injustement oublié des salles de concert !

[@ericdevaughn5941]

Exceptional. This Concerto seems so Unique. Iconoclastic !

[@bwv9883]

What a masterpiece, it sounds like this work was used heavily as a template for a lot of early Hollywood film music, there are so many things that sound vaguely familiar. But then what is not a template in arts? I hear echos of Debussy, Ravel, Gershwin, and Rachmaninov.

[@blackbrownbeige55]

CORRECT- it is now very clear that Miklos Rozsa was familiar with this Concerto as it is clearly the inspiration for all of his Oscar winning score for Spellbound{1945} LISTEN to The Spellbound Concerto and you will hear Erwin Schulhoff. IT IS A PITY Schulhoff did not emigrate to Los Angeles as did fellow Jewish composers, Franz Waxman, Max Steiner and Erich Korngold {especially} He would have been TERRIFIC in Hollywood films of the 1930s-50s

[@organopleno2000]

Yesss, somewhere between Ravel and Rachmaninov...

[@blackbrownbeige55]

Gorgeous. THE INSPIRATION for Miklos Rozsa's Spellbound Concerto and the other incidental music Rozsa wrote for the 1945 film Spellbound. Rozsa got the Oscar...Sadly Schulhoff died in a Concentration camp a few years before

[@stephenmitchell367]

This is just such an exciting work, and such an individual voice. Totally brilliant. Somewhat reminiscent of a Martinu re-imagining of the works of Kurt Weil - but original and sparkling full of neo-classical and jazz inspired fizz. Completely intoxicating. Such a shame it is not in the concert halls more often.

[@thelonious76]

Amazing. Thank You.

[@mirrors1]

Più lo ascolto e più mi piace. Davvero geniale

[@JAMESLEVEE]

This is his Piano Concerto No. 2. The movements are: I. Molto sostenuto - Alla marcia maestoso II. Sostenuto - Allegro alla Jazz - Subito sostenuto, ma alla breve III. Alla zingaresca - Tempo 1 (Allegro molto)

[@suanri6014]

How do I find the notes of this piece?

[@jordisod]

This is really quite gorgeous.

[@albertcombrink]

Thank you again!

[@giuseppedimarco8358]

Great!

[@TheWelleszTheatre]

la prima avvenne a Praga nel 1925 diretta dal grande Vaclav Talich

[@TheWelleszTheatre]

concordo, è geniale, senz'altro uno dei concerti per pianoforte più interessanti del novecento. Peccato che la produzione musicale di Schulhoff ebbe uno sbandamento stilistico dopo il 1932, abbandonò per motivi ideologici l'avanguardia, il jazz e il cabaret. Si agganciò a una specie di realismo di marca sovietica, abbastanza pesante e inadatto al suo temperamento. Ascoltati la 2a sinfonia e la 5a sinfonia, entrambe caricate sui nostri canali, e capirai al volo !

[@suanri6014]

please, tell me, where to find the sheet music of this concert?

[@mathieudanielpolak]

Nice piece!

[@kuang-licheng402]

exquisite

[@krbr5934]

géniale

[@blackbrownbeige55]

GORGEOUS! What a tragedy of the silencing of this genius composer by the Nazis

[@stueystuey1962]

Uh-oh I'm in that funny mood again and Schulhoff and a few others are the only guys who can scratch that itch. I'm a plebeian.

[@stueystuey1962]

Fun composer. Compatriot to Gershwin, evoking real world ambience in "serious" music.

[@MichaelConwayBaker]

I agree with Robert Wilks. (See below.)

[@TheWelleszTheatre]

è proprio del 1923...

[@Bohdanovo]

10:39!!

[@mirrors1]

Straordinario. Non può essere del '23, ci dev'essere un errore

[@stellafournodavlou]

Sonata erotica brought me here.

[@CsrlWiener]

Not as tame or correctmoderne as some other things of this period