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Media Announcements in Brief
We've updated the organization of our website and its material to make it more accessible to visitors. A major change is the relocation of our announcements. Media-related announcements (CDs, DVDs, etc.) will be made below, and general posts will be on our Announcements page. New CD announcements are at the bottom of this page, and on our CDs page.
Three important recent releases!
Das Wunder der Heliane receives its first complete recording for the first time since John Mauceri's 1993 recording for Decca's Entartete Musik series. The new release is on the Naxos label, recorded partially in concert.
Korngold had made several versions of his incidental music to Much Ado About Nothing, including orchestral, violin and piano duet, and solo piano arrangements. A version arranged for string quartet was unknown until it surfaced in 2012. The premiere recording of this arrangement is released on Centaur, performed by the Amernet String Quartet.
Finally, Rondeau Produktions has released the premiere recording of Korngold's operetta Das Lied der Liebe. A revision of Strauss, Jr's operetta Das Spitzentuch der Königen, previously only select songs were ever recorded.
posted 1 Dec 2018
Das Wunder der Heliane on DVD
We are told that Naxos is producing the first DVD of Korngold's opera Das Wunder der Heliane. Release date is unspecified, but is anticipated to be sometime after February 2019.
posted 1 Dec 2018
Korngold in the Netherlands
The music historian Caspar Wintermans has just published a survey of Erich Wolfgang Korngold and the reception of his music in the Netherlands, available in February. Een jongen van brutale zwier : Erich Wolfgang Korngold in Nederland 1910-1958 promises to be an exhaustive study with much rare documentary material, especially covering the close relationship between the young Korngold and legendary conductor, Willem Mengelberg.
posted February 2016
Korngold's String Quartet #2 Re-released on CD
The double CD "New World Composers From the Old World", originally released on LP in 1978 and re-released on VOX BOX CDs in 1993, is being re-released again. Details here.
posted February 2016
The Complete Songs on Capriccio
Korngold's complete lieder have been assembled for a 2-CD set on the Capriccio label, which is set for release in Europe at the end of October 2015. Includes world-premiere recordings, and liner notes by Korngold biographer, Brendan G. Carroll. North American release dates are not yet known. See our CD Releases page for more details.
posted October 2015
Waldbühne 2015
This past summer, Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic presented a concert of film music, including a suite from Korngold's score to The Adventures of Robin Hood. We believe this is the first time Sir Rattle conducted Korngold's film music. See our DVD page for more details.
posted October 2015
Kreisler plays "Pierrot's Tanzlied"
Kreisler recorded a version of "Pierrot’s Tanzlied " from Korngold's Die tote Stadt for violin & piano, with pianist Carl Lamson. Recorded acoustically during his 1924-25 recording sessions in Camden, New Jersey, this sole Korngold recording by Kreisler is available on Naxos CD.
posted October 2015
Anthony Adverse on DVD
The 1936 winner of Academy Awards for Best Score, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, and Best Film Editing, Anthony Adverse is finally available on DVD for the first time. See our DVD page for more details.
posted June 2015
The World of Benjamin Schmid
A 90-minute documentary made by Tony Palmer in 2004 is finally receiving its long-overdue release. The film provides the background to Austrian violinist Benjamin Schmid's discovery of Korngold's Violin Concerto, and his eventual performance of the work at the opening concert of the 2004 Salzburg Festival, with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa. The film is due for release in Europe in October 2014, and in the USA in February 2015.
posted October 2014
Escape to Paradise
Daniel Hope's latest album shines a new light on Hollywood scores as he takes a widescreen musical journey, seeking out the echoes of exiled European composers, such as Miklos Rózsa, John Waxman, Hanns Eisler, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold, whose Violin Concerto is the centerpiece of the album. Escape to Paradise is both a historical and musical concept, curated by Daniel Hope, based on a theme with which he has personal associations: his maternal grandparents fled Hitler's Germany for South Africa, and his parents then fled the apartheid regime for England. Guest artists include Sting and Max Raabe.
See our CD Releases page for more details.
posted September 2014
Guilty Pleasures
Renée Fleming's latest CD, "Guilty Pleasures," contains the first recording of any music from Korngold's original version of Walzer aus Wien ("Waltzes from Vienna"). See our write-up here. See our CD page.
In addition, Ms. Fleming's recent DVD release, A Recital with Renée Fleming, includes not only "Frag mich oft" from Walzer aus Wien, but five more Korngold songs and arias. See our DVD page for more details.
posted July 2014 - Updated December 2014
* Another Dawn *
The extremely rare 1937 film Another Dawn is available to the general public for the first time! Premiered in June 1937, with a handful of US TV broadcasts in the late 1950s and 1960s, about the only way to view the film since its apparently last US TV broadcast in 1967 was through copies in private collections. The Warner Bros Archive Collection has recently transferred the film to DVD, now available to US customers. Also now available, Escape Me Never (1947), one of Korngold's last film assignments. See our DVD page for more details.
posted July 2014
New York Piano Quartet's CD Review
Gramophone Magazine May 2013
Donald Rosenberg gives the New York Piano Quartet's recording of Korngold's Suite Op. 23 a sensational review in the May 2013 edition of Gramophone Magazine. Click here to read.
Our exclusive interview with the Quartet is here.
posted Sep 2013
Finnish Opera's production of Die tote Stadt on DVD
Recorded live at Finnish Opera, Helsinki, November 2010
Release date: 30 Sep 2013 / Opus Arte
posted Sep 2013
Magic Fire / Frauen um Richard Wagner
The 1955 Republic Pictures film directed by William Dieterle with music arrangements and adaptations by Erich Wolfgang Korngold is released on DVD for the Wagner anniversary year.
details at filmjuwelen.de
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posted July 2013
New CD Releases
- Korngold's ever-popular Violin Concerto has two new releases due out in January 2015: Renaud Capuçon and Kristof Barati
- Previous 2014 releases of the Violin Concerto include Nigel Armstrong (Yarlung label) and Glenn Dicterow (NY Philharmonic release)
- Editions Hortus releases a new recording of Korngold's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, Op.17 performed by Nicolas Stavy
- The Capriccio label has released a new recording of Korngold's Piano Trio, Op. 1, performed by the Pacific Trio. Zemlinsky and Bloch trios round out the disc.
- Jonas Kaufmann includes "Glück, das mir verlieb" from Die tote Stadt on his latest album You Mean the World to Me (Sony Classical)
Click here for details.
updated January 2015
Page last updated December 2018