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[Que]

Btw, re: HM - my disc 1 of "Concert Royal de la Nuit" is skipping!  I was worried when I saw it, but shit now! Too much glue in that package.

Yikes!  Skipping discs - my worst nightmare...luckily a relatively rare occurrence.

Q

[Bogey]

Btw, re: HM - my disc 1 of "Concert Royal de la Nuit" is skipping!  I was worried when I saw it, but shit now! Too much glue in that package.

Do you have a local shop where they can polish it out on a machine?  This usually (but not always) fixes my skipping discs.

[Bogey]

Will do, Bill. Good to see you around again.

You know I am a sucker for those cats who made a living with film scores but crossed over into the classical.

[North Star]

You know I am a sucker for those cats who made a living with film scores but crossed over into the classical.

Blasphemy!  0:)

[Bogey]

Blasphemy!  0:)

[Brahmsian]

Do you have a local shop where they can polish it out on a machine?  This usually (but not always) fixes my skipping discs.

Hmm, good to know, Bill.  Thanks!  I will check for this in my area.  I have a few that could use some fixing.

[Mirror Image]

You know I am a sucker for those cats who made a living with film scores but crossed over into the classical.

Well, in Korngold's case, it was quite the opposite: he started off a classical composer, was paid to compose music for film a bit later, became rather disenchanted with the film industry, and returned to classical towards the end of his life.

[Bogey]

Well, in Korngold's case, it was quite the opposite: he started off a classical composer, was paid to compose music for film a bit later, became rather disenchanted with the film industry, and returned to classical towards the end of his life.

The bolded above seems to be a key that his music survived at all or he continued to write.  This short bio is a nice framework, John, but I am sure that you already know this and much more about him than is covered here, as you always go deep when developing a context for your listening.  In any case, his music outside his movie work, IMO, took forever to be embraced and recognized as wonderful.  Ask a person in the 1960's through the 1980's and maybe 90's (including myself) if they had any Korngold on the shelf and they would probably grab their copy of Robin Hood.  That is, if they even knew who he was. 

http://www.korngold-society.org/bio.html

There are a sprinkling of releases of his classical works through the 70's up to the 90's in the classical genre, but not until the 90's do the recordings start to be more numerous.  A shame he did not have the health, or even big money backing him to write more classical pieces and have more recorded while he was alive.

[Mirror Image]

The bolded above seems to be a key that his music survived at all or he continued to write.  This short bio is a nice framework, John, but I am sure that you already know this and much more about him than is covered here, as you always go deep when developing a context for your listening.  In any case, his music outside his movie work, IMO, took forever to be embraced and recognized as wonderful.  Ask a person in the 1960's through the 1980's and maybe 90's (including myself) if they had any Korngold on the shelf and they would probably grab their copy of Robin Hood.  That is, if they even knew who he was. 

http://www.korngold-society.org/bio.html

There are a sprinkling of releases of his classical works through the 70's up to the 90's in the classical genre, but not until the 90's do the recordings start to be more numerous.  A shame he did not have the health, or even big money backing him to write more classical pieces and have more recorded while he was alive.

This is certainly true, Bill, and I really need to get more of his film music (esp. Robin Hood and The Sea Hawk). It's a crying shame Korngold's concert music wasn't recognized until way after his death and even more of a shame that these works weren't really given much of an opportunity to be heard by the public, but, IIRC, his Violin Concerto was hugely popular during it's day and, thanks to the resurgence of interest in the composer, there are now numerous recorded performances of this concerto available. Let's keep hoping his other concert music continues to see the light of day.

You actually inspired me, Bill, and, in doing so, I made these purchases during this conversation:

[Brian]

There is a similar concert music revival underway for Korngold's Hollywood colleague Miklos Rozsa.

[Bogey]

There is a similar concert music revival underway for Korngold's Hollywood colleague Miklos Rozsa.

Nice, John!

Thinking the same thing, Brian.

[The new erato]

Nino Rota next please!

[Mirror Image]

Nino Rota next please!

Yep, he's next. But, I believe I made enough purchases for the day.

[Karl Henning]

You know I am a sucker for those cats who made a living with film scores but crossed over into the classical.

One has one's enthusiasms!   0:)   

[SonicMan46]

You know I am a sucker for those cats who made a living with film scores but crossed over into the classical.

Well, I have just over a half dozen discs of Korngold's 'classical' music and the one below from his film output which contains pieces from a dozen different films - great stuff since those Flynn movies are some of my faves - probably need to explore the film music genre more?  Dave

[Bogey]

Well, I have just over a half dozen discs of Korngold's 'classical' music and the one below from his film output which contains pieces from a dozen different films - great stuff since those Flynn movies are some of my faves - probably need to explore the film music genre more?  Dave

Terrific disc, Dave.  You'll love it!

[Mirror Image]

Unfortunately, those Gerhardt recordings are only selections from the films correct?

[GuybrushThreepwood]

Could not resist going trough the wish list unharmed:

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[asin]B00WXV22XM[/asin]
[asin]B00COU07HK[/asin]
[asin]B002IVRBCE[/asin]

[Mirror Image]

Could not resist going trough the wish list unharmed:


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Pounds the table! Great disc!

[Bogey]

Unfortunately, those Gerhardt recordings are only selections from the films correct?

Correct-a-mundo, John.  It sounds that like you, I also tend to stay away from partial snips of film scores.  However, these were so stinking well done, I made the rare exception and have four on the shelf with more on the to buy list.