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One of the finest biographies of Maestro Massenet with introduction to his music,life . Tributes to his memory on the occasion of his 112th death anniversary today.

Wondermous!!! This was just Fabulous......Korngold!!!!

I had the privilege of seeing Joan Sutherland as Esclarmonde, Beverly Sills as Manon, and great tenors as Werther. I taught myself the piano transcription of the Meditation from Thais.

So good!

Can't believe The Sea Hawk was left out! What the hey?! It was one of his top 10 scores

Do you know by accident who produced and presented that documentary? Frankly, I'm on search for a complete bio/docu playlist that I'm in the middle of compiling, so that's the reason I'm asking - do you recommend any more presenters. authors, series?

I don't care! Accordion music played by skilled musicians is superb. Button,piano or whatever,is one of the mos expressive and beautiful sounds you will hear.

Any idea what the song is called at around the 32 minute mark?

Thank You.

Extremely nice to learn more about Massenet narrated by Richard Bonynge and with fascinating comments by Massenet’s great, great grand niece! Thankful that my great aunt Sibyl Sanderson is given respect. She has been forgotten. Massenet composed Esclarmonde and Thaïs for her and she recreated the role of Manon. A shame she made no recordings.

Are there good recordings of La Grande Tante?

How does such a great composer fall from grace and enter the precipitous depths of the realm of lost memories of mankind ? A true tragedy befallen upon all lovers of opera to have such a once renown master be forgotten.

“Seconds” is a unique movie with an excellent performance from Rock Hudson. So why does this video cut out just as he’s in the middle of discussing Hudson?

Where is PIANO accordion...?

Please provide productions data to express the respect to the creators ... THX and pleas upload this in much better quality ... 360p is very pure for that piece of work

Marvellous early footage!

I have a Hohner 72 bass and play by ear, self taught. When I was 20 years of age, I bought this piano accordian, could not play, but learnt by looking in the mirror to see the keys. I am now nearly 76 and I love accordians. Thank you for this opportunity to express myself.

Interesting history.

Wow incredible! What amazing voices! So cool. 🙏 bravo!

Many thanks !

A really nice arrangement (and convenient to play along)! But some more informations about the musicians would be great! Are they a specific music team? Did they played other pieces? Where are they from? --- With curiousity from Poland :-)

Beautiful. Interier... Very.. Nice..bravo.. 😮😮🎉

Very good presentation!

Very nice documentary! Thanks for posting . I never knew much about Massenet. I heard a beautiful piece of his , and decided to record it ... Here is my tribute 🎵🎺🎻 ruclips.net/video/6szkBwLwh_w/видео.htmlsi=-JhncpJ-Kjt_nCDx

I find most of Korngold's music rather bombastic and emotionally pallid. He'd been in Hollyweird far too long. This fine documentary confirmed my dubious feelings about him.

Viva l’accordeon & the musete music

What a lovely, lovely man. Thank you so much for giving us a chance to see this documentary. RIP Terence Davies. I hope they are showing all your favorite musicals wherever you are.

I can recognize the Leinsdorf, but whose recording of Wunder is used in this documentary? And who plays the Sinfonietta? It's so frustrating when movie makers don't include credits.

Wonderful show. One of my favorite composers

La vie est belle sans la guerre cré par des fous!!!!!

A favourite in British Broadcasting for many years.

This is a superb documentary, and let me offer a postscript. Korngold for years lived in the affluent Toluca Lake district a couple blocks from Bob Hope and a mile or so from Korngold's employer Warner Brothers Studios--in my home town of Burbank, California. One of his two sons (whose photos in the documentary I found fascinating)...I believe it was Ernest, not George... made a career as a teacher at John Burroughs Senior High School in Burbank, which I attended during 1964-67. Obviously, he did not enjoy the public success or fame of his father, but he was well liked and respected by his students. As to the documentary, I much appreciate its generous offerings of excerpts from Korngold's musical works, most of them new to me and which tell me I must explore him further beyond his great opera "Die Tote Stadt," which includes the aria (one of the greatest and most melancholy in all opera) "Maria's Lied," which concludes the documentary. It is apparent that Korngold as a composer was in the intermediate phase between traditional classicism/romanticism with its diatonic scale, and the atonal "noise" of Schonberg and his successors. In sum, he was more or less where Richard Strauss ended, and that's as far as I can go in appreciation of classical music. So I want to explore Korngold further.

Could you put the option of subtitles in Portuguese

I was there in the audience at his 75th birthday at the Albert Hall

This is the tune to the Marine Corps Hymn. A bit ironic.

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"Marietta's Lied" is one of the simplest, most sublime arias in all of opera. The problem I have with Korngold is how overwrought and complex his music usually is. If he had struggled even just a little, he would have learned that "ueberkomponieren" may dazzle in the short term but audiences look elsewhere over time. That's why Strauss' operas are performed everywhere in the world today and yet Korngold's operas are only produced now and then as "specialty" items. Strauss may sound incredibly complex, but he goes straight to the heart every time. His characters exhibit real emotions and they connect with the audience.

His symphony is quite something

Don Quix ot suite???? That's how a high school freshman would pronounce it the first time he encountered the book. I love listening to Hillary Hahn play Korngold's violin concerto.

What a wonderful informative documentary about accordion history . Thank you for sharing ❤

5:21 Austrian accordion music absorbed into northern Italy, and Italians brought it to France. This is a common and wonderful theme in accordion history: this country gets it from that country and shares it with yet another! Germans received accordion music from elsewhere, then German immigrants brought diatonic accordions and polka music to south Texas / northern Mexico [also other German immigrants brought accordion to other, northern, USA places such as Minnesota and Wisconsin], and then THAT music takes on a life of its own! It's like accordion wildfire or an accordion virus but in a good way!

A wonderful and generous documentary. An ardent lover of his music for many years, I appreciate getting closer to the person. I wish, though, that the producers had stressed more the fact that Korngold left Europe not because he wanted to, but because (as a Jew) he had to; he would not have survived the rise of fascism. Korngold, along with Wagner, Puccini and Mahler, are my faves. I was struck in this documentary that Korngold really had the capacity to "compose the phonebook", i.e., even without his delicious melodies, Korngold's mastery of orchestra and color would make anything sound marvelous. IMHO, no one was a greater master of the instrument called 'the orchestra'.

I wish Tony Palmer or Christopher Nupen had done a documentary on Korngold. This one is fine but those guys were the kings of classical music documentaries - then again, Palmer was the all-around king of music documentaries. He did a six-parter on popular music. His 2 3/4 hour Stravinsky film is absolutely beyond compare. In the old days, you had to rent it at Blockbuster or Hollywood Video. Nowadays, it's on RUclips for free.

Too bad this guy's life was so short. I know a lot of people ooh and aah over his Violin Concerto, which seems to be about the only thing he's really remembered for nowadays, along with maybe 2-3 other pieces, but I never really liked it. I don't dislike it, but it's like this "film score violin concerto", versus a great work for the instrument. Indeed, it's not really standard repertoire. He was definitely cut out for film scoring. That's what he excelled at. Again though, people know the films. They don't know Korngold, unless they're film buffs.

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Nice songs, I always love Robert Tear and Benjamin Luxon

Beautiful documentary! Thank you so much for sharing

"Das Wunder der Heliane" has some of the most sumptuous, gorgeous, enveloping music and singing in all of opera. It is an underappreciated and terribly underrated work of art.

I think Korngold just became my favorite composer. Just watched Die Tote Stadt for the 2nd time in two days, the performance with Jonas Kaufmann and Marlis Petersen which was a masterpiece, But it’s not just the opera, it’s all his music, so rich, so beautiful! My interest in him actually began with his violin concerto which I play all the time. It is so unbelievably gorgeous, so romantic, so lushly beautiful.

Brian O'Nolan, Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, John Ryan and Tom Joyce (not a writer but a dentist).