Pizzicato

To hit the right tone in Schulhoff’s music
is no easy thing, striking a balance be-
tween Dadaist provocation, the suggest-
ion of eroticism, and the expressionistic
compositional demands of the music.
However, where others have more or
less failed, Walter Hilgers succeeds in
discreetly communicating the ideas of
the composer; indeed, he is even able
to present Schulhoff as an unequivocally
romantic composer (to quote Josef Bek’s
description of him) with a true sense of