The Colburn School and James Conlon’s recording of Shapeshifter: Music of Erwin Schulhoff got a grand feature in a San Francisco Classical Voice‘s article highlighting The Music of Persecuted 20th-Century Composers:
“Of the Recovered Voices composers who were persecuted, exiled, or in some cases murdered by the Nazis, Erwin Schulhoff (1894–1942) was, for me, the most interesting, the most wide-ranging, and often the most fun… Schulhoff has been very much in the sights of the Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices, the latest outcome of which is a CD entitled Shapeshifter (Delos), a modern term that fits Schulhoff’s ever-shifting musical personality. A combination of orchestral, chamber, and solo piano works, the recording is staffed solely by students and graduates from the Colburn School, with Conlon lending some prestige to the project by energetically leading the RVC (Recovered Voices at Colburn) Ensemble in the Concerto for Piano and Small Orchestra.…
—Richard S. Ginell, San Francisco Classical Voice
