BBC Four - New Generation Artists

[Dave2002]

The Aris Quartett on BBC Four right now are well worth watching - catch them again on iPlayer. For once a reasonably decent evening on the gogglebox!

[ardcarp]

For once a reasonably decent evening on the gogglebox!

My thoughts exactly. An excellent programme. I thought the pianist and the guitarist were pretty hot stuff too. The venue had a good acoustic, and the presentation was not OTT. I really enjoyed the whole thing.

German pianist Elisabeth Brauss plays Chopin’s Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor alongside three keyboard sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti. Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe performs a selection of Scottish lute music and Dowland’s Fantasia. British Soprano Ruby Hughes, who is joined by Indian-American pianist Kunal Lahiry, sings music by Strauss, Purcell and Britten, while the Aris Quartet, formed in Frankfurt, perform a selection of Ervin Schulhoff’s Five Pieces for String Quartet

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001j5zn (The 'Music Played' list seems completely wrong!)

Never heard of Ervin Schulhoff before, but his writing for SQ was most original...and spectacular. And what a performance.

[jayne lee wilson]

Erwin Schulhoff?

Extraordinarily eventful life which moved through several creative and compositional phases.... (but succumbed to Tuberculosis in the prison camps in 1942)...
Best work probably from the 1920s, including these -

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Schulhoff-Concertos-Frank-Immo-Zichner-Capriccio/dp/B00J9SEXKM/ref=sr_1_22?crid=1SRZ9E78W62OP&keywords=schulhoff+cd&qid=1676250902&sprefix=schulhoff%2Caps%2C93&sr=8-22

Great album this, so just dive in...!

Or try the neoclassical (with jazz scherzo) infectiously tuneful Symphony No.2, and the String Sextet....
The Complete String Quartets (Incl. the 5 Pieces) and Sextet, late-Viennese, beautiful, sardonic, satirical, tragic, very concise, variously best heard on the Schoenberg Qt./Koch set, Naxos/Aviv or the Alma Qt. on Gutmann.... very rewarding listening.....

[Dave2002]

My thoughts exactly. An excellent programme. I thought the pianist and the guitarist were pretty hot stuff too. The venue had a good acoustic, and the presentation was not OTT. I really enjoyed the whole thing.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001j5zn (The 'Music Played' list seems completely wrong!)

Pianist Elisabeth Brauss was spectacular - and I loved the Scarlatti. Just a pity that keyboardists have to play these pieces on pianos!

Superb playing nevertheless.

[Andrew Slater]

I suspect we'll have a long wait until the next edition - I see that this is 'episode 2 of 2'. The last one was on 2nd May last year, but is at least still available on iPlayer.

[oddoneout]

The Aris Quartett on BBC Four right now are well worth watching - catch them again on iPlayer. For once a reasonably decent evening on the gogglebox!

Indeed, coming as it did after the Paul Tortelier programme, which I thought an oddly put together programme but provided lengthy footage of the man in action.
The NGA programme was way better than I had expected, which I can't help thinking is rather an indictment of the way music is treated on TV these days. The Schulhoff didn't appeal, but the playing was excellent and I can see that the pieces could do with more exposure.
It was Sean Shibe who really appealed to me; I've heard him on the radio any number of times so it was good to put a face to the name so to speak. The first set, the scottish lute music, was a reminder of a former choir MD who was a great champion of the Scottish early repertoire and which I don't think we hear nearly enough of. The Dowland in the second part was so rhythmically intricate I found myself thinking - oh hang on a minute can I hear that again. As a matter of interest is using the capo now customary for playing lute music on guitar, or a personal preference of Shibe? I haven't seen playing for so long that I've not kept up with how things might have changed.

[Bryn]

Erwin Schulhoff?

Extraordinarily eventful life which moved through several creative and compositional phases.... (but succumbed to Tuberculosis in the prison camps in 1942)...
Best work probably from the 1920s, including these -

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Schulhoff-Concertos-Frank-Immo-Zichner-Capriccio/dp/B00J9SEXKM/ref=sr_1_22?crid=1SRZ9E78W62OP&keywords=schulhoff+cd&qid=1676250902&sprefix=schulhoff%2Caps%2C93&sr=8-22

Great album this, so just dive in...!

Or try the neoclassical (with jazz scherzo) infectiously tuneful Symphony No.2, and the String Sextet....
The Complete String Quartets (Incl. the 5 Pieces) and Sextet, late-Viennese, beautiful, sardonic, satirical, tragic, very concise, variously best heard on the Schoenberg Qt./Koch set, Naxos/Aviv or the Alma Qt. on Gutmann.... very rewarding listening.....

Best known, perhaps, for the Communist Manifesto cantata:

I have it on a Supraphon LP:



and also in a 1962 radio recording, where it was conducted by Karel Ancerl. Additionally, there is this: https://soundcloud.com/harold-thalan...rwin-schulhoff from Glasgow.

[smittims]

That's helped me clarify my info. I had been confusing him with the pianist Otto Schulhof.

[ardcarp]

As a matter of interest is using the capo now customary for playing lute music on guitar, or a personal preference of Shibe? I haven't seen playing for so long that I've not kept up with how things might have changed.

I was quite surprised by he capo. There must have been some reason for its use....but I don't recall eg Julian Bream using one for early music on the guitar. Mind you he'd probably have used he lute itself anyway.....

[Bryn]

Best known, perhaps, for the Communist Manifesto cantata:

I have it on a Supraphon LP:



and also in a 1962 radio recording, where it was conducted by Karel Ancerl. Additionally, there is this: https://soundcloud.com/harold-thalan...rwin-schulhoff from Glasgow.

https://www.academia.edu/44893896/A_brief_overview_of_Erwin_Schulhoffs_The_Communist_Manifesto?email_work_card=title