Schulhoff: Works for Solo Violin and Piano - review

Becker-Bender/Becker(Hyperion)Erwin Schulhoff's works for violin and piano all date from early in his tragically short career and are in some respects more representative of his development than his maturity. They reveal, however, his lifelong fascination with the eclectic and the iconoclastic. The Suite for Violin and Piano (1911) subjects 18th-century form to post-Romantic exaggeration and snide wit, while the First Sonata (1913) betrays the influence of Debussy in its harmonies, though not in...

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