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Korngold - Violin Concerto, String Sextet | Chandos CHAN20135

Korngold - Violin Concerto, String Sextet

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Label: Chandos

Cat No: CHAN20135

Barcode: 0095115213520

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 27th March 2020

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Contents

Artists

Andrew Haveron (violin)
Sinfonia of London Chamber Ensemble
RTE Concert Orchestra

Conductor

John Wilson

Works

Korngold, Erich Wolfgang

String Sextet in D major, op.10
Violin Concerto in D major, op.35

Artists

Andrew Haveron (violin)
Sinfonia of London Chamber Ensemble
RTE Concert Orchestra

Conductor

John Wilson

About

Korngold began work on his Violin Concerto in 1937, following his father’s suggestion that the main theme from his score for the Errol Flynn epic Another Dawn would make a good basis for a concerto. The work remained dormant while Korngold was exiled to Hollywood after the Anschluss. He resumed work on it in 1945, and fully revised it. Premiered by Jascha Heifetz in 1947, the Concerto is widely performed and recorded, and is certainly Korngold’s best-known concert work.

Widely considered the greatest composer-prodigy since Mozart, Korngold composed the String Sextet in 1914, when he was only seventeen years old. It shows his fully developed style and assured idiomatic writing for the ensemble. Andrew Haveron leads the Sinfonia of London Chamber Ensemble in the Sextet, and is joined by John Wilson and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in the Violin Concerto.

Reviews

Andrew Haveron joins very select, indeed mighty company – from Heifetz to Mutter and beyond – in the Korngold Concerto. But his collaboration with John Wilson in the nursing and shaping of string lines from the concertmaster’s chair of Wilson’s orchestra (to say nothing of the Sinfonia of London) is incalculable. There’s a telepathy between them. … Haveron’s impeccable intonation and sweet tone really come into their own in the slow movement, where those rapturously hushed ascents into the stratosphere are like whispered sweet nothings. … The 17-year-old Korngold’s String Sextet is the headiest and most precocious of confections, the effusive love-child of Strauss’s Metamorphosen and Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, and something whose passionate imperative seems hardly credible from one so young.  Edward Seckerson
Gramophone May 2020

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