Peter Dixon, Howard Shelley, Matthias Bamert - Korngold: Military March, Cello Concerto, Piano Concerto (2007)
Peter Dixon, Howard Shelley, Matthias Bamert - Korngold: Military March, Cello Concerto, Symphonic Serenade, Piano Concerto (2007)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 75:45 | 335 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos Records | Catalog: CHAN 10433 X
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 75:45 | 335 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos Records | Catalog: CHAN 10433 X
The Korngold revival is gathering fabulous momentum as the composer’s centenary (29 May 1997) approaches. Now Matthias Bamert and the BBC Philharmonic give us the first ever recording of the charming military march written by Korngold for his regiment in the First World War, the best-yet recording of the bizarre Left Hand Piano Concerto and full-blooded accounts of the Cello Concerto and Symphonic Serenade, all delivered with the sensitivity and sensuality that their earlier recording of the Sinfonietta also boasted. My reservation is that sometimes there is a lack of tension and bite here. Korngold may have gone to Hollywood, but he is not all sweetness and light – he’s a composer of extremes. Peter Dixon in the Cello Concerto has a beautifully limpid tone in the lyrical moments, but lacks the equally important acidic, sardonic element. The earlier Piano Concerto (1924), falling between Korngold’s two greatest operas, Die tote Stadt and Das Wunder der Heliane, demands a fever pitch of excitement (tremolando strings, glissandi galore, piercing trumpets) bordering on hysteria that never quite emerges here. Howard Shelley is lucid and accomplished, but a little too nice. The Serenade, also combining languid melodiousness with bristlingly complicated contrapuntal writing, fares better, with a wonderful sense of mystery in the slow movement. Jessica Duchen
Peter Dixon, Howard Shelley, Matthias Bamert - Korngold: Military March, Cello Concerto, Piano Concerto (2007)
Track List:
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)
[1] Military March (1917) 3:55
in B flat major
[2] Cello Concerto, Op. 37 (1946)* 12:47
in C major
[3]-[6] Symphonic Serenade, Op. 39 (1947) 30:48
in B flat major
for string orchestra
[7] Piano Concerto, Op. 17 (1923)† 27:50
in C sharp
for the left hand
Performers:
Peter Dixon cello
Howard Shelley piano
BBC Philharmonic
Matthias Bamert, conductor
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