Franz Welser-Möst, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Barbara Hendricks - Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Symphony in F sharp; Einfache Lieder; Mariettas Lied (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 247 Mb | Total time: 63:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 7243 5 56169 2 0 | Recorded: 1996
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 247 Mb | Total time: 63:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 7243 5 56169 2 0 | Recorded: 1996
Due to its disastrous Viennese premiere in 1954, Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Symphony in F sharp was quickly dropped from the repertoire. Yet this late masterpiece, along with Korngold's opera Die tote Stadt, found receptive audiences in the 1970s and has become one of his best-known works. The old criticisms against Korngold's traditional tonality, his conservative formal bent, and his professional Hollywood polish no longer matter; nor should his occasionally spicy dissonances, angular melodies, and ambitious orchestration prove an obstacle to appreciation. Korngold's dense and dramatic symphony may be regarded either as a late development of Mahlerian post-Romanticism or as an offshoot of tonal Modernism, as practiced by Shostakovich and Prokofiev.