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Thu 10 Jan, 2019:
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Mon 10 Dec, 2018:
American Concertos – Bernstein: Serenade, West Side Story: Symphonic Dances; Korngold: Violin Concerto; Rózsa: Violin Concerto
The two programmes of 20th-century American concertos from Baiba Skride coupled together here offer very different listening experiences. Erring on...
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Thu 13 Sep, 2018:
Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35; Nielsen: Violin Concerto, Op 33
On the evidence of this very fine pairing from Orchid Classics Seoul-born Jiyoon Lee – a pupil of Kolja Blacher, joint-winner of the 2016 Carl...
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Mon 09 Oct, 2017:
Schoenberg: String Quartets – No 2, Op 10; No 4, Op 37
The “catchy little theme” (the sleeve-writer’s phrase) that opens Schoenberg’s Fourth Quartet (1936) always reminds me of Korngold’s Much...
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Fri 23 Jun, 2017:
Exiles – Bloch: Schelomo; From Jewish Life; Korngold: Cello Concerto in C major, Op 37; Die tote Stadt, Op 12 (Tanzlied des Pierrot); Prokofiev: Overture on Jewish Themes, Op 34; Alberstein: Sarah Sings a Lullaby to Little Isaac
New recordings of Korngold's Cello Concerto are always welcome. Adapted from his score for the 1946 film Deception (starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid...
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Thu 01 Jun, 2017:
Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35; Adams: Violin Concerto
Listening to Ilya Gringolts and the Copenhagen Phil tackle the spiralling first movement of Adams’s D major Concerto reminds me more than ever of...
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Fri 04 Mar, 2016:
Britten: Violin Concerto, Op 15; Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35
Norwegian virtuoso Vilde Frang cements her reputation as one of the most communicative artists on the current circuit with this superbly stimulating...
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Tue 21 Apr, 2015:
Wagenaar: Sinfonietta; Frühlingsgewalt; Elverhöi; Amphitrion; Le Cid
If the music of Dutchman Johan Wagenaar (1862-1941) doesn’t get much of a look in these days, it deserves better. This second CPO volume of his...
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Thu 06 Nov, 2014:
Escape to Paradise: The Hollywood Album
Although Nicola Benedetti may have stolen his thunder, Daniel Hope makes a decent fist of the Korngold Concerto, the main event on another selection...
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Fri 04 Apr, 2014:
Korngold: Sextet, Op 10; Suite, Op 23
In whatever genre and for whatever instrumental combinations, Korngold always wrote big – big ideas, big tunes, big emotions. His early Op 10 Sextet...
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Tue 30 Jul, 2013:
The Silver Violin – Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35, Die tote Stadt (Tanzlied des Pierrot & Mariettalied); Music by John Williams, Carlos Gardel, Shostakovich, Nigel Hess, Dario Marianelli, Howard Shore & Mahler
The centrepiece of this enjoyable miscellany, and the work beside which the rest feel a little like makeweights, is, of course, Korngold’s exuberant...
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