Korngold Archive
THE YIDDISH CABARET—Jerusalem Quartet—Harmonia mundi
Yiddish cabaret music for string quartet performed with style and refinement.
BERNSTEIN: Trio; KORNGOLD: Trio no. 1; FOOTE: Trio no. 2 – Neave Trio – Chandos
Three early works by soon to be famous composers American Moments = Music by FOOTE/KORNGOLD/BERNSTEIN – Neave Trio – Chandos CD 10924 TT: 68:31 (11/18/16) *** 1/2 Chandos has given us a nice collection of music by the Neave Trio (Anna Williams, violin; Mikhail Veselov, cello; and Eri Nakamura, piano). The disk is called ‘American […]
Jascha Horenstein – RATHAUS: Symphony No. 3; KORNGOLD: Prelude and Carnival Music; SCHREKER: Prelude to a Drama – Royal Philharmonic Orch. (Korngold)/ London Sym. Orch. (Rathaus)/ BBC Sym. Orch. (Schreker)/ Jascha Horenstein – Pristine Audio
Jascha Horenstein pays tribute to his contemporaries of pre-WW I Vienna and Germany in three works.
NIGEL ARMSTRONG, v. — BARTOK, BACH & MOZART: Works for Violin; Nigel Armstrong, violin / Sir Neville Marriner with the Colburn Orch. – Yarlung
Electric performances by wunderkind Nigel Armstrong.
Works of R. STRAUSS-LISZT-KORNGOLD-BUSONI-SCHREKER: (TrackList follows) – Orch. de la Suisse Romande/ Kazuki Yamada – PENTATONE
Buoyant renditions of dance music expertly recorded.
Play it Again – The Classic Sound of Hollywood – Charles Gerhardt /The National Philharmonic and other orch. and conductors – TCM Masterworks (2 CDs)
A two-CD set of some of the great Charles Gerhardt movie scores and a disc of many others from various sources.
KORNGOLD: String Sextet in D; Piano Quintet in E – Camerata Freden – Tacet Pure Audio Blu-ray
A melody-brimming Sextet and a Liszt-styled Quintet from the composer of classic Hollywood film scores.
“Exile – Piano Music by Composers with Roots in Two Continents” = KORNGOLD: Vier Walzer für Klavier; ERICH ZEISL: 8 Klavierstücke: “November”; TOCH: Scherzo in B Minor; Profile No. 3; Der Jongleur, Burleske; SCHOENBERG: Sechs kleine Stücke; CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Cielo di settembre; I Naviganti; Fandango – Eric Le Van, p. – Music & Arts
Attractive music attractively played: a fascinating portrait of European composers in self-exile.
KORNGOLD: Much Ado About Nothing (complete incidental music) – U. of North Carolina School of the Arts Drama Soloists and Sym. Orch./ John Mauceri – Toccata Classics
Even if not perfect, this is an important and entertaining performance molded by veteran man of the theater John Mauceri.
KORNGOLD: Die stumme Serenade (complete operetta) – Sarah Wegener (Silvia Lombardi)/ Birger Radde (Andrea Cocle)/ Young Opera Co./ Holst-Sinfonietta/ Klaus Simon – cpo (2 CDs)
The recorded canon is now complete. But is this a necessary acquisition?
KORNGOLD: Violin Concerto in D Major; CHAUSSON: Poème for Violin and Orch.; BRUCH: Violin Con. No. 1 in G Minor – Arabella Steinbacher, v. /Gulbenkian Orch. Lisbon /Lawrence Foster – PentaTone
An odd program, but it has its points, the most compelling a lovely performance of Chausson’s equally lovely Poème.
Nicola Benedetti: The Silver Violin = WILLIAMS: Schindler’s List Main Theme; KORNGOLD: Tanzlied des Pierrot from Die Tote Stadt; Violin Concerto in D; Marietta’s Lied from Die Tote Stadt; GARDEL: Por una cabeza; SHOSTAKOVICH: Romance; Andante; Prelude; HESS: Ladies in Lavender Main Theme; MARIANELLI: My Edward &I from Jane Eyre; SHORE: Concertino from Eastern Promises; MAHLER: Piano Quartet in A Minor – Nicola Benedetti, violin & ens. & orch. – Decca
Violinist Nicola Benedetti pays homage to the Silver Screen with a host of romantic and passionate film score arrangements, of which those by Erich Korngold provide the original impetus.
“KORNGOLD: Werke für Violine & Klavier” = Schneemann; Caprice Fantastique; Marietta’s Lied; Mädchen im Brautgemach; Holzapfel und Schlehwein; Gartenszene; Mummenschanz; Tanzlied des Pierrot; String Sextet – Daniel Gaede, v./ Xuesu Liu, p./ Philharmonic String Sextet Berlin – Phil. Harmonie
Korngold is not one of my favorites, but his String Sextet is. It receives an atmospheric performance here and is joined by some beautifully played salon music from the young composer.
KORNGOLD: Die tote Stadt (complete opera) (2012)
An opera so much more deserving that what it has gotten so far.
More Hi-Res Music Downloads
Nine more exceptional stereo hi-res music downloads reviewed.
Audio News for June 26, 2012
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KORNGOLD: Piano Quintet in E Major; Sextet – Jennifer Stumm, viola/ Bartholomew La Follette, cello/ Kathryn Stott, p./ Doric String Q. – Chandos
Korngold was a child prodigy and fine operatic composer who became internationally famous for his Hollywood film scores.
“Young Hearts on Fire: Music for Strings by Korngold, Rossini & Mendelssohn” – EnsembleCaméléon – Challenge Classics
Fresh insights into the work of three musical prodigies.
Shadows in Paradise – Hitler’s Exiles in Hollywood (2008)
Many of these expatriate composers, musicians, writers, architects, artists ended up in the Los Angeles area, turning it briefly into a center of world culture.
“Groteske” = Works by KIEREN MACMILLAN; KORNGOLD; JÉRÔME BERNEY; FRANK MARTIN; JEROME BERNEY – Gall
Both these albums feature works of musical fusion. Both have their attractions as well as drawbacks; the recorded sound is an issue for me.
“FRANZ MITTLER: Viennese Wunderkind” = MITTLER: Sonata in G Major; Sonata in D Major – Diana Mittler, p. /André Emelianoff, cello / Alexander Meshibovsky, violin – Con Brio
Worth exploring if you enjoy the music of turn-of-the-century Vienna.
The Hollywood Cello: Concert Works from Film Composers = Music by KORNGOLD, HAGEMAN, SAMINSKY, ACHRON, TOCH, CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, HERBERT, and CHAPLIN – Gregory Hamilton, cello/Kate Hamilton, viola/Robert Hamilton, p. – Soundset
This disc celebrates the various musical expatriates–most European Jews–who gravitated to motion pictures between the “silent” era of Hollywood and the 1960s.
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
Cedille
