Korngold: Abschiedslieder; Symphony in F sharp minor

Erich Korngold is better known as one of leading Hollywood film composers before and just after the Second World War, and also one of a number of distinguished artists who fled to America from Nazi persecution. His Hollywood successes have detracted from his reputation as a classical composer to the extent that the Symphony, composed at the height of his movie successes, was dismissed at the time. It was not until the early 1980s that its musical ...
...new generation of listeners were able to hear it for the first time. Admittedly Korngold the film composer is not far away: the swagger of the outer movements could have come only from one responsible for the scores of The Sea Hawk and Captain Blood. But the best movement, the elegiac Adagio that forms the heart of this work, harks back to the earlier, pre-Hollywood Korngold, the wunderkind who encapsulated the late romantic styles of Mahler and ...

chivhu 14.01.2009 · Read full review
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