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"Music is music whether it is for the stage, rostrum or cinema. Form may change, the manner of writing may vary, but the composer needs to make no concessions whatever to what he conceives to be his own musical ideology ....." - Erich Wolfgang Korngold (interviewed in 1946) |
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Forthcoming & New Releases
Alexander Gilman Barber & Korngold Violin Concertos Release date: 24 February 2012 CD details // Oehms Classics website |
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Piano Quintet/ String Sextet Release Date: 31 January 2012 (Europe) Chandos: CHAN 10707 CD details // Chandos website |
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A Time for Us includes "Marian & Robin" from Korngold's score to Release Date: 31 January 2012 CD details // Analekta website |
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Presenting Rachel Patrick Rachel Patrick (violin), Benjamin Boren (piano) Release date: 13 December 2011 Enharmonic Records |
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Korngold: Works for Violin & Piano, Daniel Gaede (violin), Xuesu Liu (piano) Released: 5 December 2011 Phil.harmonie |
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Die stumme Serenade op. 36 Wegener, Radde, Buchwald, Klockow Released: 15 November 2011 CD details // cpo recordings at JPC website |
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Tchaikovsky & Korngold: Concertos Laurent Korcia (violin) Released: 15 November 2011 CD details // Naive website |
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Modern Times Songs By Schreker, Gál, Goldschmidt, Eisler, Korngold, Zemlinksy Released: 14 October 2011 CD details // avi-music website |
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Frankfurt Opera's 2009 production of Released: 16 Sep 2011 - Oehms Classics Klaus Florian Vogt, Michael Nagy, Anna Ryberg, Julian Pregardien, Hans-Jürgen Lazar, Hedwig Fassbender Opern- & Museumsorchester Frankfurt, Sebastian Weigle CD details // Oehms Classics website |
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Pure Diva Released: 19 Sep 2011 - Melba Recordings Cheryl Barker (sop), Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Guillaume Tourniaire (cond), Timothy Young (Piano) includes "Mariettas Lied" from Die tote Stadt CD details // Melba Recordings website |
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A new 3-CD set of highlights from the Martha Argerich Project at the Lugano Festival 2010, celebrating the musical fruits of a project in which young artists join seasoned performers, including Ms. Argerich, to explore wide-ranging chamber music and orchestral repertoire, both well known and rarely heard. Features include, works for two-pianos, Schumann's Violin Sonata #1, Chopin's Piano Concerto #1, and several piano quintets, including Korngold's Piano Quintet in E Major, op. 15. Korngold's Quintet is performed by Alexander Mogilevsky, Alissa Margulis, Lucia Hall, Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg, and Mark Drobinsky. |
Ensemble Caméléon Korngold: Sextet Challenge Classics website Released worldwide 26 April 2011 |
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Cello Concertos Steckel C-Avi Music website Released 20 May 2011 |
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World Premiere Recording on Ondine ! |
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Korngold's Symphony in F sharp coupled with the world premiere recording of Tänzchen im alten Stil Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra released internationally on 26 April 2011 |
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| Tänzchen im alten Stil is an 8-minute piece written by Korngold while in his early twenties during military service in WWI. The work was given its world premiere performance in 2007 in Jyväskylä, Finland, under the direction of John Storgårds, who on this CD conducts the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. | ||
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Kieren MacMillan: |
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Our thanks to Jonathan Swartz for informing us about this new release. A wonderful performance of the opus 23 Suite, coupled with an attractive new work by Kieren MacMillan. |
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Former Releases
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Aron Quartett, Henri Sigfridsson (piano) |
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Korngold's Violin Concerto Hyeyoon Park (violin), Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Lawrence Renes |
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KORNGOLD, E.W.: Violin Concerto Hague Residentie Orchestra, N. Jarvi |
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Horenstein's recording of: "Violanta" Prelude & Carnival now on CD USA/Canada Distributor Worldwide Distributor List |
Feature:
Viel Lärm um Nichts, Op. 11
(Much Ado About Nothing)
Korngold received a commission to compose incidental music to accompany a new production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing being prepared in 1918. He created 14 numbers for the play - including a vocal piece for the page boy Balthazar - for an enhanced chamber orchestra, owing to the lack of musicians caused by World War I. From this collection of music, Korngold created a concert suite, using five of the original pieces in a re-ordered sequence. This suite was in the repertoire of over 100 orchestras prior to 1938. The Strasbourg Philharmonic on the Pentatone label is the latest, and an excellent example of the concert suite. The ASV releases contain world premiere recordings of four additional numbers from the original orchestral score, making them valuable additions to any Korngold collection.
Incidental Music and Concert Suite
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| The latest release of the complete concert suite. | ASV 1131 & ASV 1146 collectively contain numbers 1, 3, 4, 6-9, 12 & 14 from the complete theatrical score. | ||
Instrumental Suite
Scheduling conflicts interrupted the original run of the play's production, making the orchestra unavailable for continued performances. Korngold reworked the score for piano (himself) and solo violin (Rudolf Kolisch) so the prodcution could continue. From this version for duet he prepared a four-movement suite for violin and piano for publication. Several recorded versions are represented below.
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| Historic recording from 1941 with Korngold at the piano. | Gil Shaham and Andre Previn released in 1994. | Live recording from the 2004 Salzburg Music Festival. | A recent recording by Wolfgang David and David Gompper. |
The charm and popularity of this suite - it was played by Heifetz, Kreisler, Elman, Seidl, and others - have prompted other musicians to make versions for their own instruments. The famous violist Lionel Tertis adapted one movement for viola and piano, Michael Schlechtriem prepared a complete suite for cello and piano, and Joel Quarrington has a version of the "Garden Scene" that is undeniably appealing.
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| Lionel Tertis "Complete Columbia Recordings" (OOP) contains his unreleased viola version of the "Hornpipe" number. | Michael Schlechtriem's own version for cello of the complete instrumental suite. | Joel Quarrington with a version of the "Garden Scene" number for double bass and piano. |
Three pieces for solo piano
A further version of the music from "Viel Lärm um Nichts" was prepared by Korngold for solo piano, presumably assembled for mass consumption. (Piano music was the preferred method for the popular enjoyment of music in the home before the era of mass-produced recordings.) For this particular suite Korngold utilized "Maiden in the Bridal Chamber", "Dogberry and Verges (March of the Watch)", and "Masquerade (Honrpipe)". Below are three recordings of this piano suite.
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| Ilona Prunyi on the Marco Polo label with one of the earliest recordings of the piano suite. | Ingrid Jacoby on the Carlton Label includes the premiere recording of Korngold's op. 19 "Caricatures", plus the "Four Waltzes for Piano." | Martin Jones's recording also includes a collection of rare arrangements of Korngold's music for piano two- and four-hands. |
Page last updated December 2011