Korngold Complete Music for Violin & Piano
ASV has chosen the right performers for these charming works which, though early, feature all this composer’s best-loved traits
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Composer or Director: Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Genre:
Chamber
Label: ASV
Magazine Review Date: 9/2000
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 70
Catalogue Number: CDDCA1080
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Sonata for Violin and Piano |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer
Andrew Ball, Piano Detlef Hahn, Violin Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer |
Much Ado About Nothing, Movement: Dogberry and Verges (March of the Sentinel) |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer
Andrew Ball, Piano Detlef Hahn, Violin Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer |
Much Ado About Nothing, Movement: Intermezzo (Garden Scene) |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer
Andrew Ball, Piano Detlef Hahn, Violin Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer |
Much Ado About Nothing, Movement: Hornpipe |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer
Andrew Ball, Piano Detlef Hahn, Violin Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer |
Much Ado About Nothing, Movement: Bridal Morning |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer
Andrew Ball, Piano Detlef Hahn, Violin Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer |
Sonett für Wien (In Memoriam) |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer
Andrew Ball, Piano Detlef Hahn, Violin Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer |
Märchenbilder, Movement: The gnomes |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer
Andrew Ball, Piano Detlef Hahn, Violin Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer |
(Das) Wunder der Heliane |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer
Andrew Ball, Piano Detlef Hahn, Violin Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer |
(Der) Schneemann, Movement: Serenade |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer
Andrew Ball, Piano Detlef Hahn, Violin Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer |
(Die) tote Stadt, Movement: ~ |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer
Andrew Ball, Piano Detlef Hahn, Violin Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer |
(Die) tote Stadt, Movement: Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen (Pierrotlied) |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer
Andrew Ball, Piano Detlef Hahn, Violin Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer |
Author: Michael Stewart
ASV’s latest addition to its Korngold series is an indispensable disc gathering together the complete works for violin and piano, including no fewer than three world- premiere recordings. In addition, the whole venture is made all the more indispensable for the superb performances throughout by Detlef Hahn and Andrew Ball.
The disc opens with the remarkably early, but technically and emotionally mature, Violin Sonata in D – a ravishing work that certainly ranks among Korngold’s major compositions. It was composed in 1912 at the suggestion of Carl Flesch and Artur Schnabel, and was first performed by them in 1913. The Sonata is lyrical and expansive and has all the characteristics of Korngold’s melodic and harmonic idiom – there’s certainly nothing apprentice about this piece. Hahn and Ball give a beautifully crafted performance indeed and have truly absorbed the essence of this masterly score.
Korngold’s suite of incidental music for Much Ado About Nothing has enjoyed a certain amount of currency in its original orchestral version, but less so in Korngold’s own arrangement for violin and piano heard here. The transition works marvellously, being ideally suited to the intimacy of chamber music. The second movement, ‘Dogberry and Verges’, a grotesque march depicting the two drunken night-watchmen, pays passing homage to Korngold’s childhood idol Gustav Mahler, and elsewhere in the suite (still essentially an early work, written in 1919) there are constant intimations of the film scores of later years.
The remainder of the disc is devoted to smaller arrangements of works, including two extracts from the opera Die tote Stadt and one from Das Wunder der Heliane as well as the gorgeous song setting Sonett fur Wien (In Memoriam), Op 41, the theme of which Korngold also used in the 1946 film Escape Me Never. Hahn and Ball are once again most persuasive; only in the ‘Serenade’ from Der Schneemann did I feel that a certain amount of charm was lost through their slightly impulsive choice of tempo. Excellent sound recording – another highly recommendable issue in ASV’s Korngold series.'
The disc opens with the remarkably early, but technically and emotionally mature, Violin Sonata in D – a ravishing work that certainly ranks among Korngold’s major compositions. It was composed in 1912 at the suggestion of Carl Flesch and Artur Schnabel, and was first performed by them in 1913. The Sonata is lyrical and expansive and has all the characteristics of Korngold’s melodic and harmonic idiom – there’s certainly nothing apprentice about this piece. Hahn and Ball give a beautifully crafted performance indeed and have truly absorbed the essence of this masterly score.
Korngold’s suite of incidental music for Much Ado About Nothing has enjoyed a certain amount of currency in its original orchestral version, but less so in Korngold’s own arrangement for violin and piano heard here. The transition works marvellously, being ideally suited to the intimacy of chamber music. The second movement, ‘Dogberry and Verges’, a grotesque march depicting the two drunken night-watchmen, pays passing homage to Korngold’s childhood idol Gustav Mahler, and elsewhere in the suite (still essentially an early work, written in 1919) there are constant intimations of the film scores of later years.
The remainder of the disc is devoted to smaller arrangements of works, including two extracts from the opera Die tote Stadt and one from Das Wunder der Heliane as well as the gorgeous song setting Sonett fur Wien (In Memoriam), Op 41, the theme of which Korngold also used in the 1946 film Escape Me Never. Hahn and Ball are once again most persuasive; only in the ‘Serenade’ from Der Schneemann did I feel that a certain amount of charm was lost through their slightly impulsive choice of tempo. Excellent sound recording – another highly recommendable issue in ASV’s Korngold series.'
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