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Schulhoff: Flammen review – vivid operatic colour from 'degenerate' composer | Classical music


Czech-born Erwin Schulhoff died of tuberculosis in a concentration camp in
Bavaria in 1942; he was 48. His only opera, Flammen (Flames), had been composed between 1923 and 1929, and was first performed in Brno in 1932. Schulhoff’s music was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis, and it was not until the 1990s that Flammen was staged again (in Leipzig), and also recorded in Berlin under John Mauceri for Decca’s Entartete Musik series. The Capriccio set comes from a production in Vienna in 2006, which was recorded by Austrian Radio.
Erwin Schulhoff: Flammen album cover. Photograph: Capriccio Records
Although it’s based on the legend of Don Juan, with a libretto by Karel Josef Beneš (and translated from Czech into German by Kafka’s friend and biographer Max Brod), Flammen is a surreal reworking of the story, interwoven with elements of the legend of the wandering Jew. There’s little sense of linear narrative running through the 10 scenes, which ....

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