Erwin Schulhoff - Concertino per flauto, viola e contrabbasso(1925)(with full score)

Mov.I: Andante con moto 00:09
Mov.II: Furiant: Allegro furioso 05:41
Mov.III: Andante 09:21
Mov.IV: Rondino: Allegro gaio 13:29

Fl. Jean-Claude Gérard(Maybe)
Va. Enrique Santiago(Maybe)
Cb. ??
(Ensenble Villa Musica)

Erwin Schulhoff's Concerto for Flute, Viola, and Double Bass (1925) is a complex piece. After opening with a sweet nostalgic melody, it soon mutates into an edgy disturbed dialog between the flute and the bass. Other melodies appear and retreat, varying tempi and intensities. All is not well in Schulhoff's Prague. When the nostalgic melody returns at first movement's end, the coda feels cynical, like a dream betrayed. As contrast, the second and fourth movements are filled with lively Bohemian dance strains that, like the Slavonic dances of fellow countryman Antonin Dvorak, pass right through you with ephemeral sweetness. Sandwiched between them is an uncertain andante that hearkens back to the spirit of lost romanticism. Somehow Schulhoff pulls all of this together into an entertaining and thoughtful piece. (Allmusic)