
As a showcase for a very fine violinist, this disc serves its purpose. It’s also worth having for the fine account of the Ponce Concerto,
Erich Korngold’s first two piano sonatas respectively date from his 11th and 13th years. Their harmonic sophistication and sense of flow are astonishingly assured for
This disc largely duplicates repertoire found most recently on an excellent Chandos disc with Matthias Bamert and the BBC Philharmonic. Caspar Richter and his orchestra
Erich Korngold’s String Sextet, played here in an arrangement for string orchestra, was first performed in Vienna in 1917. As with other works of Korngold’s
This program is the same as the ASV release of Korngold’s complete works for violin and piano, by coincidence issued at very nearly the same
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was the student of Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942) and their music, particularly these two sextets, reflects the spirit of late 19th-century Vienna.
There has been no more important musical project in the past couple of decades than the recovery of our classic film music. This effort has
This intelligently programmed CD makes clear that when it comes to Korngold, Austria’s loss was truly Hollywood’s gain. ASV’s new recording of orchestral music from
Much has been made of Erich Korngold’s astounding teenage mastery of late-19th-century harmony and orchestration. Given such technical assurance, it’s surprising to find the Viennese
Devotion was a bomb of a film that dealt with a subject almost too awful to contemplate: the thrill-packed relationship between the two Brontë sisters