KORNGOLD: Violin Concerto, Violin Sonata [CD de audio] Kristóf Baráti and Korngold

Descripción del producto The son of a distinguished music critic, Erich Wolfgang Korngold is chiefly known as one of the greatest composers of Hollywood film scores; a man whose score for the 1938 Swashbuckler film The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn, saved his life. For his first 40 years, however, he wrote music for the concert hall, and even after he had sold his soul to the film studios Korngold continued to write lateRomantic art music, his Violin Concerto marking a significant return to this genre in 1945. The music is wholly characteristic of the composers mature style: expansive, opulent and memorably melodic. The orchestration, too, is abundantly colourful and sensitive, with the virtuosity of the violin part coming to the fore particularly in the last movement. In the programme for the works premiere, Korngold wrote: [the work] was contemplated rather for a Caruso of the violin than for a Paganini how delighted I am to have my concerto performed by Caruso and P