Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Symphonic Addict · July 16, 2025, 10:00:06 AM

Quote from: Der Schattenmann on July 16, 2025, 07:14:14 AMHave you heard the Caspar Richter/Bruckner Orchester Linz recording on Capriccio (originally issued on ASV) yet? I think it's a good one.

No, I haven't, but I am rather content with the CPO recording for now.

Der Schattenmann · July 16, 2025, 11:13:26 AM

Quote from: Symphonic Addict on July 16, 2025, 10:00:06 AMNo, I haven't, but I am rather content with the CPO recording for now.

You content? Since when? Is this some kind of new development that I'm unaware of?

Spotted Horses · July 16, 2025, 11:39:44 AM

Quote from: Symphonic Addict on July 13, 2025, 05:16:52 PMI think I'm posting too much on this part of the forum lately, but I can't help myself.

Just discovered a work of the utmost brilliance and sheer splendour: Schauspiel-Ouvertüre, op. 4 (on the CPO recording below).

Holy smokes... If I said that it's an astonishing work for a 14-year-old composer, it would be a ridiculous understatement. What a portentous piece of music!!! I mean, this knocked my socks off, it's late-Romanticism at its very best, glittering with all the possible intensity, voluptuousness aplenty and filled with masterful orchestration of first order, and that ending is so powerful and imposing. Loved this piece so much, which is in the spirit of his also precocious Sinfonietta. I can't explain myself why I had never heard it before. One of my favorite overtures from now on.

I didn't know this series existed. Will have to put in on my list.

Der Schattenmann · July 16, 2025, 12:50:05 PM

Quote from: Spotted Horses on July 16, 2025, 11:39:44 AMI didn't know this series existed. Will have to put in on my list.

If you're after the CDs, it's been boxed up: