Jazzettes Ursula Schoch & Marcel Worms

• Alexandre Tansman (1897 - 1986): Sonatine transatlantique (Arr. A. Pascal for Violin & Piano):
• 1I. Foxtrot03:22
• 2II. Spiritual & Blues04:09
• 3III. Charleston01:58
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937): Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Major, M. 77:
• 4I. Allegretto08:19
• 5II. Blues05:29
• 6III. Perpetuum mobile04:12
• Wilhelm Grosz (1894 - 1939):
• 7Jazzband07:30
• Louis Gruenberg (1884 - 1964): Jazzettes, Op. 26:
• 8I. Allegretto grazioso02:36
• 9II. Lento sostenuto03:49
• 10III. Allegro ritmico03:16
• Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990): 2 Pieces for Violin & Piano:
• 11No. 2, Ukelele Serenade03:57
• Erwin Schulhoff (1894 - 1942): Violin Sonata No. 2, WV 91:
• 12I. Allegro impetuoso06:28
• 13II. Andante03:35
• 14III. Burlesca02:28
• 15IV. Finale03:45
• George Gershwin (1898 - 1937): 3 Preludes (Arr. J. Heifetz for Violin & Piano):
• 16No. 1 in B-Flat Major. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso01:40
• 17No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor. Andante con moto e poco rubato03:08
• 18No. 3 in E-Flat Minor. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso01:24
• Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974): Scaramouche, Op. 165b:
• 19III. Brasileira (Arr. J. Heifetz for Violin & Piano)02:40
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918):
• 20Le petit nègre, L. 114 (Arr. S. Frenkel for Violin & Piano)01:50
• Total Runtime01:15:35

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Ursula Schoch and Marcel Worms play through jazz-inspired music from the interbellum.

For many composers, the introduction of jazz at the beginning of the twentieth century in Europe did not go unnoticed. The spontaneity of the new music, the new sound possibilities, the vital rhythms, the refined, swinging rubato – and improvisation, inseparably integrated with jazz – they were all features which speak to the imagination.


The influence of jazz became audible in symphonic repertoire as well as in chamber music. Although in jazz itself, the violin had never taken a prominent place, many composers chose the instrument for their jazz-inspired works. Even though an essential element of jazz – improvisation – is missing in their music, other elements justify the term “jazzy”: the lively rhythms, the free and whimsical melody lines and above all a light-hearted kind of energy, which mirrors the innovative and optimistic spirit of the Interbellum years.

Ursula Schoch, violin
Marcel Worms, piano

Ursula Schoch
started studying the violin at the age of four. After completing secondary school, she went on to study violin with Saschko Gawrillof and chamber music with the Alban Berg String Quartet at the Musikhochschule in Cologne.

In 1987, Ursula Schoch won first prize with her trio at Jugend Musiziert, Germany’s national music competition for young people. She won the prize again in 1990, this time as a solo violinist. At the 1992 Deutsche Musikwettbewerb she won first prize. She has since made numerous solo appearances in Europe, Japan, Central Asia, America and Africa.

Ursula Schoch has recorded a number of CDs for the Bayer Records label featuring the violin concertos of Brahms, Barber, Bruch, Mendelssohn and other composers.

From 1998 to 2000, Ursula Schoch was a member of the Berliner Philharmoniker. In 2000, she was appointed assistant principal violinist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Ursula Schoch also gives regular performances in various chamber music groups. She is often heard with Marcel Worms in a concert reading by author Jan Brokken, which in 2014 resulted in the cd Baltic Souls.

Schoch plays a violin built by J.B. Guadagnini.

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