If I Could Choose Only One Work By...KORNGOLD
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- It Would Have To Be...Violin Concerto
...because you get a great sequence of unforgettable film tunes married to a brilliant concert showpiece. What's not to love?
The List So Far...
1. Ravel: Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose Ballet)
2. Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
3. Schubert: String Quintet in C major
4. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4
5. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”
6. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
7. Debussy: Preludes for Piano (Books 1 & 2)
8: Handel: Saul
9. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
10. Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G major
11. Vaughan Williams: Job
12. Bach: Goldberg Variations
13. R. Strauss: Four Last Songs
14. Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust
15. Haydn: “Paris” Symphonies (Nos. 82-87)
16. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
17. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor
18. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
19. Chopin: Preludes
20. Verdi: Rigoletto
21. Roussel: Symphony No. 2
22. Copland: Appalachian Spring (complete original ballet)
23. Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2
24. Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
25. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
26. Rimsky-Korsakov: Opera Suites (Scottish National Orchestra/Järvi) Chandos
27. Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire
28. Smetana: Ma Vlást
29. Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
30. Bizet: Carmen
31. Elgar: In the South
32. Sullivan: The Mikado
33. Dvořák: Symphony No. 8; Cello Concerto (Piatigorsky/Munch/Boston Symphony) RCA
34. Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies
35. Monteverdi: Orfeo
36. Scarlatti: Sonatas
37. Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op. 17
38. Berg: Wozzeck
39. Hermann: Psycho (film score)
40. Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini
41. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
42. Holst: Suites for Military Band
43. Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
44. Respighi: Three Botticelli Pictures
45. Sibelius: Symphony No. 5; Pohjola’s Daughter (Bernstein, New York Philharmonic) Sony
46. Britten: The Turn of the Screw
47. Borodin: String Quartet No. 2
48. Janácek: The Cunning Little Vixen
Absolutely love "Das Wunder der Heliane" and it would be on my desert-island list.
This series is one of the best you did. Never miss an episode. Really enjoyed some of the less known (to me at least..) masterworks you picked. Hopefully someone decides to make this into a (rather large...) series of concerts. One can wish
Upbeat, creative, fun, exciting. I don't know who is best but Hillary Hahn plays the hell out of it. Love the piece. Thanks!
I love the violin concerto but I have to go for Die Tote Stadt which I think is his masterpiece and also has the best tune he ever wrote in or out of Hollywood, Marietta's Lied. Can't do without it. I also suspect that Korngold thought that Hollywood was a sideline while waiting for the Nazis to be wiped out and his real career was and had been in Europe and Vienna writing music on traditional (non click track) forms.
Yeah, Marietta's Lied is right up there with Strauss' Four Last Songs. Gorgeous music.
Die Tote Stadt is his masterpiece. I love the Neblett/ Kollo edition. And yes, violin concerto is exquisite.
Korngold violin concerto played by Gil shaham is my favourite to date. It's like refined gold
Love this work: more Gold than Korn.
For me, it's his magnificent Symphony in F-sharp, which stands as a powerful summation of Korngold's career and is, to my mind, one of the great symphonies of the 20th century. It contains the fin-di-siecle lushness typical of most of his music, but also shows him striking out in more hard-edged, modern directions, especially in the first movement which is startingly angular at times. The scherzo is brilliantly orchestrated and positively thrilling, with a haunting middle section to contrast. Perhaps most wonderful of all is the slow movement, written as an elegy to FDR, which is deeply moving in its poignancy and is devoid of any artifice. And to top it all off, the finale is swashbuckling and tuneful in the vein of "The Adventures of Robin Hood", and satisfyingly contains references to all the previous movements. The work has been very well served on disc - now it's time to see it take hold in concert programs like the Violin Concerto has! Fortunately, I see the Berlin Philharmonic has been programming it quite frequently as of late.
Yes, fully agree. That's one of the most beautiful violin Concertos ever written.
If I hear “Korngold”, my mind starts singing “Glück das mit verliebt” - old EMI References CD featuring Lotte Lehmann. It was the first time I heard anything by the composer. Szell conducted her and Richard Tauber during the Berlin premiere of the work - It perhaps falls into the category of “Concerts I wish I attended”! Thanks for this great series.
I think Korngold was an absolute master of gorgeous melody. The aria you mention is one of my favorites but Pierots Tamzlied is another.
Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic toured with Korngold’s Symphony this season. We saw them on their stop in Boston. What a sprawling and beautiful piece!
In regard to the Violin Concerto, I’ve enjoyed Baiba Skride’s recording with Gothenburg.
I always recommend the early Korngold Sinfonietta, actually a 45-minute work, to those who love the Symphony in F Sharp Minor. Equally brilliant and deserving of a place in the concert hall. Wish I could have seen Petrenko and Berlin do the Symphony, but seeing that tour do Mahler’s 7th in Chicago was quite the thrilling treat.
Gorgeous choice - but let's not forget his superb string quartets - especially #3 in D major! 🥰 Sublime!
I love this concerto; even more so than the big Romantic concertos of Brahms, Mendelssohn, Bruch, Tchaikovsky and the Beethoven. Gil Shaham and Previn is my go to version, but Mathe with Litton in Dallas is awfully good, too.
I'd love you to do a video of the best recordings of Porkofiev 2 violin concertos.
Next: David's 20 fave recordings ever and 30 fave works.
Nope. Been there, done that.
When you eventually get around to Berio, I think the obvious AND appropriate choice is Sinfonia. I haven't been exposed to a lot of his original music; I do like Eindrucke. But Sinfonia must certainly be his signal achievement, and it is fully representative of his style, as it includes his keen interest in revisiting music of the past, as in Folk Songs, Rendering, the Boccherini march, etc. Certainly, the third movement of Sinfonia is the apotheosis of that kind of undertaking.
As usual, I love his V.C. over Bruch, and in fact all other V.C.'s I have in my collection. Film scores are always favorites of mine, and so are his very early, but mature piano works.
I absolutely love the Korngold violin concerto. I first discovered it via the Gil Shaham recording. The symphony and his film music are great too.
But may I make a suggestion for another entry in this series, in a quite different style: I'd like to hear your choice for Einojuhani Rautavaara. I'd put forward his Cantus Arcticus, a concerto for birds and orchestra. I think it's very original and are the same time very approachable, really typical of much of Rautavaara's music. And above all, it's so beautiful!
I have discussed the work several times and made a video about it.
Hello Dave!
I would like to suggest that Bloch's Israel symphony should appear in this series .
Best wishes Fred from Kristianstad.
Your choice is good. Re: Korngold's Opera's (I agree again) - but we need another, new 'Violanta' to sit alongside Marek Janowski's excellent recording.
Agreed. I have Marton's (autographed) recording. Delicious!!
Since today (March 8) is International Women's Day, are there any women you think belong on this list?
I just go by the music. The sex of the composer is irrelevant.
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I understand that. But haven't there been any women who've written great music?
@@edwardcasper5231 That's a different question that has nothing to do with this series. I've talked about composers who are women many times.
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The reason I asked the first question is because I noticed that no music written by women has been included on this list so far, and you had, indeed, mentioned women composers. I probably should have asked if any music by women would be included in this list, not if any women belonged here. That choice is obviously yours to make. I enjoy your channel very much. I also really miss the Schwann Catalogue, which you mentioned in a recent video I saw.
@@edwardcasper5231 Thanks for explaining.
I love the Gil Shaham recording!
yes yes yes......the korngold violin concerto with heifetz and wallenstein......a great moment of music...emotional too
4:45 I believe he was actually 60, not 50, but still it was too soon. I’ve been getting into Korngold lately, a composer I never really knew much about. Opera Colorado just wrapped up a production of Die Tote Stadt which was terrific, and I was just about to look for a recording of the violin concerto for my first listen, so this is quite timely. Thanks Dave.
Yes, you're right. Thanks!
It's such a beautiful concerto! Which recording would you recommend? I personally like the one with Vilde Frang and the Frankfurt radio orchestra
See reviews at Classicstoday.com. There are many good ones now.
Great choice! Try Shaham and Previn. Shaham's phrasing is exquisite and Previn, an erstwhile film composer, was three different violinists' choice for collaborater. Plus, you get a delightful arrangement of some music from Much Ado about Nothing, and a standout Barber Concerto in the deal!
@@stevecook8934 Yes, that's usually my pick too.
I'll go with a short work: "Sursum Corda", Op. 13
I won’t argue, quite, that Korngold’s Violin Concerto is the best VC out there. But it is my personal favorite, or at least my favorite of the 20th-century. Plus, I don’t think I’ve ever heard a bad recording (cue all my fellow commenty people pointing out the lackluster ones).
Wonderful choice, Dave, thanks! Such a lush, tuneful work that deserves its resurrected cachet. The most hair-raising performance I’ve heard so far (despite dodgy sonics) is a live 1947 version by Heifetz accompanied by Kurtz and the NY Phil. For modern readings, I think Ehnes is hard to beat, but as you said there are lots of wonderful versions to choose from, thankfully.
No doubts: the Violin Concerto!