Tanja Becker-Bender (violin), Markus Becker (piano) Hyperion CDA 67833****

Prague-born Erwin Schulhoff is one of those composers whose posthumous fortune has been lifted by the interest over the past two decades in the entartete musik(degenerate music) that was banned by the Nazis – Schulhoff died, aged 48, in a concentration camp in 1942. This disc includes his official Op 1, a 1911 Suite for violin and piano that blends old forms and new flavours in the manner of Fritz Kreisler, but with much spicier harmonies (Schulhoff's first composition teacher had been Max Reger). The First Violin Sonata (1913) shows him under the spell of Debussy. Schulhoff later had fashionable dalliances with Dadaism and jazz, but Bartók is the influence behind the Second Violin Sonata and the Sonata for solo violin, the latter being the most impressive work on this passionately delivered survey. See url.ie/4qdb