Korngold created such an intricate, beautiful piece with The Adventures of Robin Hood soundtrack, and John Wilson & his orchestra performing it for us - a modern audience - 70ish years later was absolutely magical. What a wonderful world we live in.
This brings a tear to an old mans eye. There was once a time when people could compose such magnificent music and make such wonderful movies, but it all seems so long ago now and just like Camelot it all vanished.
There are still young folk out there (myself among them) who very much enjoy and intend on passing down to their own children this wonderful time in film and music. It only ends when it's been completely forgotten. Thanks to people like yourself and my father, the golden age of hollywood will continue to live on.
I so much wish I had been present in the Albert Hall in 2013. John Wilson is a National Treasure as is his wonderful orchestra. Long may they flourish!
Horribly I have just discovered this group. I have been a working musician for over 50 years. So MUCH nostalgia for me and they have captured the essence of it perfectly.
Can see Flynn and DeHavilland gaze into each others' eyes with the love theme."Because I love you, Robin, I'd come. Even the danger would mean nothing if you were with me."Best film music written.
This theme definitely captures the imagination when I think of the movie, The Adventures of Robin Hood starring Errol Flynn. I consider this version the BEST adaptation ever!
I agree with this version of the Robin Hood saga is the standard, IMHO all others pale to this 1939 production. Some things just can't be improved, Korngold is the winner!
This suite has been one of my favourite pieces for years but hearing it live at the Royal Albert Hall was something else. The main theme of course is wonderful, but it is the love theme that really transcends the realms of film music. Those soaring strings and everything else just conjure images of Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland in their prime. Korngold was a genius; Wilson and his orchestra performed his work majestically. Absolutely stunning. I will remember this performance always.
This marvelous score is one of the big reasons the 1938 movie it was composed for NEVER GETS OLD. I didn't see that movie until 1967-68--I forget which year, but I've never forgotten how it entranced me from beginning to end because it moved with this score! Now, I know Korngold composed the score after the movie was filmed, but he made the movie sound as though it was filmed in time to the score. And of course, no one involved with the making of that movie was going to mess with this score, so there it is in all its glory when you see the movie!
Almost all of the time in Hollywood, the composer doesn't start to write the score until after the film is finished. There are occasions where the composer will do research ahead of writing the score. Two times I can think of involve Alfred Newman and Miklos Rozsa. Newman was writing the score for "The Diary of Anne Frank," so in advance, he flew to Amsterdam before filming ever started on the Fox lot to interview Otto Frank about Anne. He wanted to get to "know" Anne. Otto told Newman of Anne's love of Hollywood. So, the next time you watch the film, look for the scene when Anne gets her diary and pictures of her film stars. Newman's music willhave a slight hint of "Someday My Prince Will Come," from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." In the case of Rozsa, he was hired to write the score fro "Ben-Hur." So, he tried to get himself in the mood by sitting in the Roman Colleseum. He sat there humming imagenary Roman marches and keeping time with his pencil on a notepad. He said kids lin the arena saw him and thought he was nuts!
@@williamsnyder5616 Thanks for the back story, but with the exception of the cinematography and Shelley Winters' performance, I found everything about Anne Frank, which I saw a few weeks ago for the first time, disappointing. "The story is king," but its script was fatally weak, and the Super Chief (George Stevens) should have cut it by an hour. Al Newman's score was also limited. I see Stevens' taking on of this project as a sign of his artistic decline. He had been on a masterpiece run (A Place in the Sun, 1951; Shane, in 1953; and Giant, in 1956), but then went for message movies, which are virtually impossible to make masterpieces of, no matter how much talent one has in one's cast and crew.
@@nstix2009xitsn George Stevens and Alfred Newman worked together again on *The Greatest Story Ever Told,* and while it's a good movie overall, the score I think was weak. *King of Kings* had just come out a few years earlier with a powerful Miklos Rosza soundtrack, and Newman's music for *Greatest Story* was too somber and sedate by comparison. Stevens was already giving the movie a moody, ethereal tone in the writing and acting, so the music didn't need to be tamped down. One could argue that *King of Kings* was a much more energetic and lively film (and there would be some truth to that), but I don't think *Greatest Story* should have had a soundtrack so...for lack of a better word, bland.
John Wilson and his orchestra are superb. Fantastic performances of 40s film scores, 50s light music, Gershwin, Tom & Jerry! So awesome to be able to see an orchestra perform these pieces live and hear them in 21st century recorded clarity. As much as I love the charm of period recordings. Hats off to them - superb!
In my opinion, Erich Wolfgang Korngold was the true father of film music. His beautiful score for Robin Hood is a landmark in film history and the performance of John Wilson is simply superb and majesty. Great Orchestra and Great Conductor.
I wonder if anyone composed a film score to cover the movie as early as Max Steiner did for KING KONG (1933). Early sound movies didn't have much in the way of film scores--music with the opening credits and the end credits, but not much else! But Max Steiner was an energetic composer, and I can just imagine him rubbing his hands in glee at the prospect of scoring KING KONG! Now, Erich Wolfgang Korngold brought his own music genius to the movies, but after Max Steiner showed composers how to do it! And I'm so glad the early movies had such composers brightening the movies!
@@kirsteni.russell5903 with all due respect there is Erich Wolfgang korngold and then there is everyone else. then and now Erich Wolfgang korngold is considered the single greatest composer in the history of motion pictures.
@@josephneola6244 You might be correct, but Steiner has a larger body of work and so did Alfred Newman and John Williams might have something to say about it well. I think Korngold deserves to be on the “mount rushmore” of film composers.
ALL VIEWERS NOTE: if you haven't got it already (and why not?) buy the extended version DVD of the film and choose 'film playback without dialogue' option. With just Korngold's fantastic score and no dialogue/sound effects...a great experience - highly recommended.
What's always impressed me is how the music almost *makes* the movie, at least in a sense. Invite a friend over who hasn't see TAoRH, choose any 'fight scene," run that without the music, then run it *with* the music. Incredible difference.
The love theme at 4:13 is so beautiful I can't think of any romantic theme other than this and Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture which gives me chills and even tears to my eyes.
A glorious live version. The film has always been my favourite version of Robin Hood, and I have seen over 10. I think maybe John Williams is the only contemporary movie score composer who can come close to Korngold. As one commentator on the Robin Hood DVD said (paraphrasing): You would never imagine the scene in Sherwood where Robin and Marian and discussing the politics of the Norman rule to be a love scene, but Korngold's music makes it so and develops their relationship.
Starting at 8:18 and then running a little more than two minutes, may be some of the most beautiful music ever written. It is further highlighted if you know the scene from which it comes in the movie-Robin and Marion on the balcony, the possibility that they may never see each other again, their true love hanging in the balance of things yet to come. Sumptuous and achingly beautiful, a masterpiece.
BRAVO! This great classic allows you can see Robin impudently swinging by vine to a huge boulder after his men have waylaid Sir Guy, Maid Marian and the treasure;The "Romeo and Juliet" sequence where Robin pays Marian a nightly call and lastly the duel to the death between Robin and Sir Guy that takes in the great staircase, the shadows on the walls, the dramatic use of the furniture til the final fatal thrust...Movie music in the grand manner BRILLIANT AND LUSH interpretation
I agree with you on all of your post. But add two scenes; meeting King Richard in the woods and the end scene. Robin and Marion running to that huge door. "May I obey all your commands with equal pleasure Sire". Then they cloose the doors as they run away. WHAT an ending!
The most entertaining film ever made has, by no accident, the finest score ever written for a film. And this is a simply stunning rendition of it. Outstanding! And thanks for posting it. Korngold's film music deserves far wider appreciation and no one hearing this cannot not want to hear more.
One of the only films I watch just to listen to the soundtrack! When Marion's theme/the Love theme begin, I am mesmerized and awestruck every time I hear it. Superb live version here, perfectly performed, recorded, and videotaped!
Starts off a teeny-tad-timid... -- and finishes in complete triumph! A masterfully conducted, competently performed, wholly exuberant realization of Korngold's inspiring piece. Can't "Like" this enough...
The power of this music is unmistakable. having seen this movie many times you are able to visualize the film and the actors performance. thank you Mr. Korngold for a truly wonderful score.
These fantastic scores is what made the swashbuckling Techicolor epics so exciting and memorable... fitting music for the man who put the "swash" in "buckle," the great Errol Flynn. Damned difficult piece, beautifully executed. BRAVO!!!
Ever since I got to play this piece last year, I keep coming back to hear and see this video. What gorgeous music, that is played with so much enthusiasm and power. Great job!
The dynamic and precision of this orchestra is quite unique in modern times,i have listened to a lot of world orchestras in London during the last 45 years or so and i think you have to go all the way back to the fifties to find these qualities.
Well, that is simply your opinion, which you are entitled to. Others, however, will consider other scores [say, "The Best Years of Our Lives" or "Spartacus" or "Vertigo"] as being 'the greatest of them all'.
My children are grown now and in their late 20's but this is their absolute favourite version of Robin Hood! I introduced them to the classic films as a treat when they were little . The music is by far the best! Korngold's violin concerto is absolutely beautiful. He never received the praise due him because his reputation as a classical composer was sullied by compsing for the film industry, but I think he brought the essence of classical music to the masses .
still fabulous best film score overture suite I've ever heard and let's dedicate it to Olivia dehavilland who has turned 101 this month and become a dame.
So beautiful, especially the ending, starting at 13:36! Gives me goosebumps. I always liked the ending of the film when they are throwing their sword down. Great music to go with it!
Bravura performance. Very true to the pace and tempo of the original movie, along with much superior sound and a view of the orchestra. Korngold doesn't get played very often, but, when he does, even the musicians exhibit verve and panache.
What's interesting about this score was that Korngold originally didn't want to do it; he thought the movie was too fast and frantic for him to score properly. It wasn't until Hitler invaded his native Austria and Korngold had to evacuate his family that he reconsidered and took the job. Afterward Korngold described THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD as the movie that saved his life.
@@Pepe_Silvia How about you shut up with your ignorant, rude, and downright stupid comments? Korngold himself outright stated that Hitler's invasion of Austria and his having to get his family out of there were the reasons he did ROBIN HOOD In the first place. He was famously quoted as saying "My life was saved by ROBIN HOOD." Not only are you being an ass, but you're also disrespecting Korngold himself.
My three favorite scores of all time: 1. "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (Korngold, 1938); 2. "Star Wars" (Williams, 1977); 3. The Captain From Castille" (Newman, 1947).
Powerful, Passionate, Electrifying, Magnificent! I can only imagine what this wonderful orchestra would do with Max Steiners Gone With The Wind and Erich Wolfgang Korngolds The Private Lives Of Elizabeth and Essex with Bette Davis and Errol Flynn!
Monroe Smile...your comments are spot on.The robin and marion theme is magical and I have loved it since the early seventies when I bought a vinyl record of Errol's movies themes.
Emozionante, travolgente, arrangiamenti e direzione eccelse, sembra di ascoltare un' Orchestra mittel europea. E come essere parte viva del film. Wort-Ton-Drama, bravo John Willson, Sursum Corda.
Jack Warner was a true genius to put all these elements of music, production value, Michael Curtiz all around this young 27 actor who was so passionate about his craft and together they created a classic for us to live with us forever.
Korngold is one of the greats which include Dimitri Tiomkin and the late Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004). Jerry Goldsmith's son also had perfect pitch and was a great composer for tv and motion pictures. Goldsmith's son sadly passed away just after doing the music for "Stargate SG1" (TV) and "Stargate Atlantis". John Williams (composer of "Starwars" theme et al) said Korngold had been his inspiration. Korngold's first composition at age 11 ,"Der Schneemann" (the snowman) was the talk of Vienna. It is true that only a last minute plea from director Max Reinhardt saved Korngold from the Nazi's take over of Austria. Korngold went on to score 16 films and won numerous awards. He sadly died at age 60 in 1957 just after his Symphony in F# major was completed. He truly was "Das Lichte Wunderkind" (The last prodigy).
I always thought that Korngold was able to capture the soaring sound of violins better than Herrmann, the quickness of frantic riding better than Newman and the sound of the epic nearly as well as Rosza. What a genius.
I so agree Korngold set the bar for melodic sweeping symphonic scores I so love his Sea hawk, Elizabeth and Essex, Captain blood Robin Hood takes some beating though!
Peter martin No one can beat them, the difference between a pro and someone that just goes through the motions excessively and relies on a large Orchestra of good musicians to make up for it.
Michael Royer Yes, time pressure forced Korngold to re-use that as the main theme. It's amazing then that (with only 3 weeks) he was able to compose 100 minutes of 'The Sea Hawk' to the standard that he did. I didn't mind the fact that Robin's theme wasn't original, because it seemed to suit him and the film very well.
+Michael Royer Listen to this interview with John Wilson about this concert, it is on UA-cam. "John Wilson Interview at Hollywood Rhapsody Prom 2013" There is also the Orchestra playing Big Country.
Ranked in the company of the five or so greatest film scores ever composed. I don't care for the breaks, however. There should be a way to link the sections and turn it from a suite into one symphonic tone poem. Then we'd have something that just might rival Strauss' "Don Juan".
Fantastic music for a fantastic film. For those that may not know it ... Check out Korngold's theme to The Sea Hawk, a film also staring Errol Flynn. Again, a masterly score that suits that film so well.
John has been ‘given’ to us so this music will never die. Ok, the orchestra has much to with it, but can you imagine how much THESE scores will be worth- ESPECIALLY since many of the Hollywood originals have since been LOST?!!
The story behind Korngold's score is interesting...and tragic. He had written three great scores for Warner Bros. ("A Midsummer's Nights Dream," "Captain Blood" and "Anthony Adverse") and then had returned to his native Austria. Jack Warner called him long distance and begged Korngold to do the "Robin Hood" score, but Korngold nixed the idea. He had returned to Vienna to writre symphonic music. However, once it appeared that the Anchluss was happening, Korngold left Austria for Hollywood where he reconsidered Warner's pleas.
Rudolph G Kopp was a contemporary and fellow countryman [both were born in the Hungarian-Austrian Empire] of Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Both worked in Hollywood at roughly the same time. Kopp was composing the music for Cecil B DeMille's "Cleopatra" at Paramount Pictures in 1934 when Korngold arrived in Hollywood to begin his long association with Warner Bros Pictures.
Beyond astounding. I scroll down to read the comments and I think I'm hearing the movie. These people should have been the ones that made the CD soundtrack. Much much better than the William Stromberg one.
My favorite line of all time from film(s):
Sheriff (to Robin) "You speak treason!".
Robin: "Fluently".
@INTERNETWORK Oops...thanks for the correction.
"SIR GUY: You've come to Nottingham once too often!
ROBIN: "When this is over my friend, there'll be no need for me to come again!"
I love good writing, its like a diamonds light in the mind.
There have been several Robin Hood movies but NONE can match the Errol Flynn version.
VERY TRUE!
You are absolutely right!👍
AMEN!!
Depends on what you want to match. Flynn's Robin Hood is pure panto, as is the Costner (to some degree).
Have you seen the Disney one from 1973 or the Kevin Costner one?
John Wilson and an Orchestra are a National Treasure
Agreed - where is the Knighthood?
Korngold created such an intricate, beautiful piece with The Adventures of Robin Hood soundtrack, and John Wilson & his orchestra performing it for us - a modern audience - 70ish years later was absolutely magical. What a wonderful world we live in.
Korngold was an incredible composer and an absolute treasure to the United States.
This brings a tear to an old mans eye. There was once a time when people could compose such magnificent music and make such wonderful movies, but it all seems so long ago now and just like Camelot it all vanished.
There are still young folk out there (myself among them) who very much enjoy and intend on passing down to their own children this wonderful time in film and music. It only ends when it's been completely forgotten. Thanks to people like yourself and my father, the golden age of hollywood will continue to live on.
Ever hear of John Williams? He's squarely in the Korngold mold.
@@michaelfrench7295 what a beautiful respectful reply from you ,your father has done very very well
@@isaacsegal2844 definitely , well spotted Issac
One of the finest scores ever written. This is the gold standard, by which all others must be measured....
Korngold was a musical genius. Incredible composer who shared his talents with the world.
Korngold, along with Max Steiner, were musical solid gold. Warner Bros was fortunate to have both of them.
I so much wish I had been present in the Albert Hall in 2013. John Wilson is a National Treasure as is his wonderful orchestra. Long may they flourish!
Horribly I have just discovered this group. I have been a working musician for over 50 years. So MUCH nostalgia for me and they have captured the essence of it perfectly.
I have listened to this so many times over the past few years and it still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand tall. Just wonderful.
Can see Flynn and DeHavilland gaze into each others' eyes with the love theme."Because I love you, Robin, I'd come. Even the danger would mean nothing if you were with me."Best film music written.
There were many re-makes but the Errol Flynn Robin Hood movie was, and still is, the best. Claude Rains as evil Prince John was perfectly cast.
And Basil, Olivia, Eugene, and Alan.
King john
Thank God we have John Wilson. He continues the legacy of Erich Kunzel, Charles Gerhardt.
This theme definitely captures the imagination when I think of the movie, The Adventures of Robin Hood starring Errol Flynn. I consider this version the BEST adaptation ever!
I totally agree with you. Hollywood TODAY could NEVER hmake a version this good.
I agree with this version of the Robin Hood saga is the standard, IMHO all others pale to this 1939 production. Some things just can't be improved, Korngold is the winner!
July 1, 2019 , Olivia de Havilland turned 103! God Bless you Maid Marion.
This suite has been one of my favourite pieces for years but hearing it live at the Royal Albert Hall was something else. The main theme of course is wonderful, but it is the love theme that really transcends the realms of film music. Those soaring strings and everything else just conjure images of Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland in their prime. Korngold was a genius; Wilson and his orchestra performed his work majestically. Absolutely stunning. I will remember this performance always.
This marvelous score is one of the big reasons the 1938 movie it was composed for NEVER GETS OLD. I didn't see that movie until 1967-68--I forget which year, but I've never forgotten how it entranced me from beginning to end because it moved with this score! Now, I know Korngold composed the score after the movie was filmed, but he made the movie sound as though it was filmed in time to the score. And of course, no one involved with the making of that movie was going to mess with this score, so there it is in all its glory when you see the movie!
Almost all of the time in Hollywood, the composer doesn't start to write the score until after the film is finished. There are occasions where the composer will do research ahead of writing the score. Two times I can think of involve Alfred Newman and Miklos Rozsa. Newman was writing the score for "The Diary of Anne Frank," so in advance, he flew to Amsterdam before filming ever started on the Fox lot to interview Otto Frank about Anne. He wanted to get to "know" Anne. Otto told Newman of Anne's love of Hollywood. So, the next time you watch the film, look for the scene when Anne gets her diary and pictures of her film stars. Newman's music willhave a slight hint of "Someday My Prince Will Come," from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." In the case of Rozsa, he was hired to write the score fro "Ben-Hur." So, he tried to get himself in the mood by sitting in the Roman Colleseum. He sat there humming imagenary Roman marches and keeping time with his pencil on a notepad. He said kids lin the arena saw him and thought he was nuts!
@@williamsnyder5616 Thanks for the back story, but with the exception of the cinematography and Shelley Winters' performance, I found everything about Anne Frank, which I saw a few weeks ago for the first time, disappointing. "The story is king," but its script was fatally weak, and the Super Chief (George Stevens) should have cut it by an hour. Al Newman's score was also limited.
I see Stevens' taking on of this project as a sign of his artistic decline. He had been on a masterpiece run (A Place in the Sun, 1951; Shane, in 1953; and Giant, in 1956), but then went for message movies, which are virtually impossible to make masterpieces of, no matter how much talent one has in one's cast and crew.
@@nstix2009xitsn George Stevens and Alfred Newman worked together again on *The Greatest Story Ever Told,* and while it's a good movie overall, the score I think was weak. *King of Kings* had just come out a few years earlier with a powerful Miklos Rosza soundtrack, and Newman's music for *Greatest Story* was too somber and sedate by comparison. Stevens was already giving the movie a moody, ethereal tone in the writing and acting, so the music didn't need to be tamped down. One could argue that *King of Kings* was a much more energetic and lively film (and there would be some truth to that), but I don't think *Greatest Story* should have had a soundtrack so...for lack of a better word, bland.
John Wilson and his orchestra are superb.
Fantastic performances of 40s film scores, 50s light music, Gershwin, Tom & Jerry!
So awesome to be able to see an orchestra perform these pieces live and hear them in 21st century recorded clarity. As much as I love the charm of period recordings.
Hats off to them - superb!
In my opinion, Erich Wolfgang Korngold was the true father of film music. His beautiful score for Robin Hood is a landmark in film history and the performance of John Wilson is simply superb and majesty. Great Orchestra and Great Conductor.
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true. although steiner and rosza also share the same historic and stylistic position
I wonder if anyone composed a film score to cover the movie as early as Max Steiner did for KING KONG (1933). Early sound movies didn't have much in the way of film scores--music with the opening credits and the end credits, but not much else! But Max Steiner was an energetic composer, and I can just imagine him rubbing his hands in glee at the prospect of scoring KING KONG! Now, Erich Wolfgang Korngold brought his own music genius to the movies, but after Max Steiner showed composers how to do it! And I'm so glad the early movies had such composers brightening the movies!
@@kirsteni.russell5903 with all due respect there is Erich Wolfgang korngold and then there is everyone else. then and now Erich Wolfgang korngold is considered the single greatest composer in the history of motion pictures.
@@josephneola6244 You might be correct, but Steiner has a larger body of work and so did Alfred Newman and John Williams might have something to say about it well. I think Korngold deserves to be on the “mount rushmore” of film composers.
I am listening to it now for the 100th plus time. Seen the movie the same amount. Nothing better than this. Loooove it !!
Marvellous in every way, John Wilson is also one of the most elegant conductors to watch.
+raoul2u Except he has pretty poor baton technique.
you mean unique!
....this music touches my heart, lovely beyond comprehensible
ALL VIEWERS NOTE: if you haven't got it already (and why not?) buy the extended version DVD of the film and choose 'film playback without dialogue' option. With just Korngold's fantastic score and no dialogue/sound effects...a great experience - highly recommended.
What's always impressed me is how the music almost *makes* the movie, at least in a sense. Invite a friend over who hasn't see TAoRH, choose any 'fight scene," run that without the music, then run it *with* the music. Incredible difference.
CSteele. There's an option to remove the talking along with noise effects, but there is no option to remove the music.
@@louisborselio8608 i think you just watch it with no sound.
The love theme at 4:13 is so beautiful I can't think of any romantic theme other than this and Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture which gives me chills and even tears to my eyes.
A glorious live version. The film has always been my favourite version of Robin Hood, and I have seen over 10. I think maybe John Williams is the only contemporary movie score composer who can come close to Korngold. As one commentator on the Robin Hood DVD said (paraphrasing): You would never imagine the scene in Sherwood where Robin and Marian and discussing the politics of the Norman rule to be a love scene, but Korngold's music makes it so and develops their relationship.
It is injustice I hate, not the Normans.
@@Laceykat66 One of those people was a Norman. .
Starting at 8:18 and then running a little more than two minutes, may be some of the most beautiful music ever written. It is further highlighted if you know the scene from which it comes in the movie-Robin and Marion on the balcony, the possibility that they may never see each other again, their true love hanging in the balance of things yet to come. Sumptuous and achingly beautiful, a masterpiece.
You're not the only one...at 9:26 you can just tell the conductor was feeling it too.
@@evepeabody4738 Olivia actually disclosed how many kisses she gave him…. Naughty Olivia!
John Wilson is simply the best!
BRAVO! This great classic allows you can see Robin impudently swinging by vine to a huge boulder after his men have waylaid Sir Guy, Maid Marian and the treasure;The "Romeo and Juliet" sequence where Robin pays Marian a nightly call and lastly the duel to the death between Robin and Sir Guy that takes in the great staircase, the shadows on the walls, the dramatic use of the furniture til the final fatal thrust...Movie music in the grand manner BRILLIANT AND LUSH interpretation
I love the pictures movie before it
I agree with you on all of your post. But add two scenes; meeting King Richard in the woods and the end scene. Robin and Marion running to that huge door. "May I obey all your commands with equal pleasure Sire". Then they cloose the doors as they run away. WHAT an ending!
Wonderful, Korngold was the master such color and emotion the movement breathtaking
The most entertaining film ever made has, by no accident, the finest score ever written for a film. And this is a simply stunning rendition of it. Outstanding! And thanks for posting it. Korngold's film music deserves far wider appreciation and no one hearing this cannot not want to hear more.
May I Enjoy All your Film Scores with Equal Pleasure Mr. Korngold !!!
Amongst the dozen or so greatest film scores from Hollywood's Golden Age.
Nobody does Korngold better than Wilson
Oh ny God, one of my favorite Korngold scores!
You have GOT to love the harpist! What a 'stache!
He's probably a cricket fan, who was thinking of the great Aussie legend, Merv Hughes, when he grew it.
@@jsrlasher4711 No doubt!
There have been many movie versions of Robin Hood but the best by FAR, is the Errol Flynn one.
Credit also due to the orchestrators, Hugo Friedhofer and Milan Roder. One can imagine their score paper was virtually black for the fight scene!
In my opinion,Errol Flynn was the Greatest Robin Hood of all time..!
It takes a legend to play a legend!!!
Korngold composed the music standard for the movie industry to follow every since. Bravo Maestro! Bravo!
One of the only films I watch just to listen to the soundtrack! When Marion's theme/the Love theme begin, I am mesmerized and awestruck every time I hear it. Superb live version here, perfectly performed, recorded, and videotaped!
the movie wasn't that bad but the score was far too good for it to be fair wonderful score!!
Starts off a teeny-tad-timid... -- and finishes in complete triumph! A masterfully conducted, competently performed, wholly exuberant realization of Korngold's inspiring piece. Can't "Like" this enough...
The power of this music is unmistakable. having seen this movie many times you are able to visualize the film and the actors performance. thank you Mr. Korngold for a truly wonderful score.
These fantastic scores is what made the swashbuckling Techicolor epics so exciting and memorable... fitting music for the man who put the "swash" in "buckle," the great Errol Flynn. Damned difficult piece, beautifully executed. BRAVO!!!
,john wilson discs
Ever since I got to play this piece last year, I keep coming back to hear and see this video. What gorgeous music, that is played with so much enthusiasm and power. Great job!
The dynamic and precision of this orchestra is quite unique in modern times,i have listened to a lot of world orchestras in London during the last 45 years or so and i think you have to go all the way back to the fifties to find these qualities.
peter feltham Absolute nonsense.
Night Of the Demon
This is absolutely gorgeous and Marion's theme was so touching, really beautiful.
superb score deserved a better movie?
@@petermartin3394 You can't seperate the score and the movie.
A gorgeous performance of a splendid movie score, one of the best ever composed!
Simply put, the greatest film score them all, IMHO
Well, that is simply your opinion, which you are entitled to. Others, however, will consider other scores [say, "The Best Years of Our Lives" or "Spartacus" or "Vertigo"] as being 'the greatest of them all'.
Your opinion only. Not everyone will agree with you.
@INTERNETWORK Do you now? We choose 'The Best Years of Our Lives', 'Spartacus' and 'Vertigo' as the top three best film scores.
absolutely brilliiant can live the movie through the music, one of the very best film music composers
My children are grown now and in their late 20's but this is their absolute favourite version of Robin Hood! I introduced them to the classic films as a treat when they were little . The music is by far the best! Korngold's violin concerto is absolutely beautiful. He never received the praise due him because his reputation as a classical composer was sullied by compsing for the film industry, but I think he brought the essence of classical music to the masses .
I'm in my late 20s and I adore this film. My dad is a huge Errol Flynn fan
Absolutely first class. My favourite movie.
Can we give a like to Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn 😊 RIP Olivia de Havilland
This and The Sea Hawk were my favorite scores by Korngold!
Great concert and superb version of this Korngold classic
RIP Olivia de Havilland...
She passed away, 26/07/2020, at the age of 104...
still fabulous best film score overture suite I've ever heard and let's dedicate it to Olivia dehavilland who has turned 101 this month and become a dame.
So beautiful, especially the ending, starting at 13:36! Gives me goosebumps. I always liked the ending of the film when they are throwing their sword down. Great music to go with it!
The only disappointment is that I can't add another like every time I listen to it.
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I've just made it for you (but music also)!
Bravura performance. Very true to the pace and tempo of the original movie, along with much superior sound and a view of the orchestra. Korngold doesn't get played very often, but, when he does, even the musicians exhibit verve and panache.
What's interesting about this score was that Korngold originally didn't want to do it; he thought the movie was too fast and frantic for him to score properly. It wasn't until Hitler invaded his native Austria and Korngold had to evacuate his family that he reconsidered and took the job. Afterward Korngold described THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD as the movie that saved his life.
Reid Mason That film takes on a new meaning when you consider the historical context of its production.
That was really touching! What a beautiful meaning of this piece for Korngold and his family!
shut the fuck up with hitler, this is just the best music of all times
@@Pepe_Silvia How about you shut up with your ignorant, rude, and downright stupid comments? Korngold himself outright stated that Hitler's invasion of Austria and his having to get his family out of there were the reasons he did ROBIN HOOD In the first place. He was famously quoted as saying "My life was saved by ROBIN HOOD." Not only are you being an ass, but you're also disrespecting Korngold himself.
Well, Korngold could have secretly thanked Robin of loxley.( Robin Hoods real name.) for if it wasnt for his story. well you know.
My three favorite scores of all time: 1. "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (Korngold, 1938); 2. "Star Wars" (Williams, 1977); 3. The Captain From Castille" (Newman, 1947).
This Robin Hood movie is the best, and the music is outstanding!
Powerful, Passionate, Electrifying, Magnificent! I can only imagine what this wonderful orchestra would do with Max Steiners Gone With The Wind and Erich Wolfgang Korngolds The Private Lives Of Elizabeth and Essex with Bette Davis and Errol Flynn!
Monroe Smile...your comments are spot on.The robin and marion theme is magical and I have loved it since the early seventies when I bought a vinyl record of Errol's movies themes.
Emozionante, travolgente, arrangiamenti e direzione eccelse, sembra di ascoltare un' Orchestra mittel europea. E come essere parte viva del film. Wort-Ton-Drama, bravo John Willson, Sursum Corda.
Jack Warner was a true genius to put all these elements of music, production value, Michael Curtiz all around this young 27 actor who was so passionate about his craft and together they created a classic for us to live with us forever.
The most beautiful thing I've heard in a long time. Cannot stop listening to it. Thanks.
Korngold is one of the greats which include Dimitri Tiomkin and the late Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004). Jerry Goldsmith's son also had perfect pitch and was a great composer for tv and motion pictures. Goldsmith's son sadly passed away just after doing the music for "Stargate SG1" (TV) and "Stargate Atlantis". John Williams (composer of "Starwars" theme et al) said Korngold had been his inspiration. Korngold's first composition at age 11 ,"Der Schneemann" (the snowman) was the talk of Vienna. It is true that only a last minute plea from director Max Reinhardt saved Korngold from the Nazi's take over of Austria. Korngold went on to score 16 films and won numerous awards. He sadly died at age 60 in 1957 just after his Symphony in F# major was completed. He truly was "Das Lichte Wunderkind" (The last prodigy).
Ken Mahood PhD EdD Alma Deutscher; Emily Bear
I always thought that Korngold was able to capture the soaring sound of violins better than Herrmann, the quickness of frantic riding better than Newman and the sound of the epic nearly as well as Rosza. What a genius.
I so agree Korngold set the bar for melodic sweeping symphonic scores I so love his Sea hawk, Elizabeth and Essex, Captain blood Robin Hood takes some beating though!
Peter martin No one can beat them, the difference between a pro and someone that just goes through the motions excessively and relies on a large Orchestra of good musicians to make up for it.
Hermann was the most Versitile .... Citizen Kane ... Vertigo ... The Day the Earth Stood Still .... Taxi Driver!
@@jamesalexander5623 Yes, indeed. But, let's not forget Elmer Bernstein.
i read somewhere that members of a professional orchestra said that this was the hardest piece they ever had to play.
That cant be true. Look at things like Stravinsky's rite of spring or bartok's concerto for orchestra - they are definitely much more challenging.
cbi1991 See commentary at the end of this piece.
beautiful, masterful, powerful,,, written like a tender feather help up by the breath of God
Korngold really puts the instrumentalists through the wringer! What a work out. Yet it seems even a bit slower than the original.
***** They really are digging in aren't they?
The only Robin Hood film, totally swashbuckling adventure. (maybe a little light on fact) but who cares just a brilliant film and score.
Absolutely 100%
Still a helluva fun film.
And starring Errol Flynn…say no more!!! 😉😎
What most people don't know is that the major themes of Korngold's ROBIN score are reworkings of an opera score he composed in the late 1920s.
Michael Royer Yes, time pressure forced Korngold to re-use that as the main theme. It's amazing then that (with only 3 weeks) he was able to compose 100 minutes of 'The Sea Hawk' to the standard that he did. I didn't mind the fact that Robin's theme wasn't original, because it seemed to suit him and the film very well.
+Michael Royer Listen to this interview with John Wilson about this concert, it is on UA-cam. "John Wilson Interview at Hollywood Rhapsody Prom 2013" There is also the Orchestra playing Big Country.
Ranked in the company of the five or so greatest film scores ever composed. I don't care for the breaks, however. There should be a way to link the sections and turn it from a suite into one symphonic tone poem. Then we'd have something that just might rival Strauss' "Don Juan".
Fantastic music for a fantastic film. For those that may not know it ...
Check out Korngold's theme to The Sea Hawk, a film also staring Errol Flynn. Again, a masterly score that suits that film so well.
I can picture dueling Flynn and Rathbone exchanging insults through gritted teeth.
John has been ‘given’ to us so this music will never die. Ok, the orchestra has much to with it, but can you imagine how much THESE scores will be worth- ESPECIALLY since many of the Hollywood originals have since been LOST?!!
The story behind Korngold's score is interesting...and tragic. He had written three great scores for Warner Bros. ("A Midsummer's Nights Dream," "Captain Blood" and "Anthony Adverse") and then had returned to his native Austria. Jack Warner called him long distance and begged Korngold to do the "Robin Hood" score, but Korngold nixed the idea. He had returned to Vienna to writre symphonic music. However, once it appeared that the Anchluss was happening, Korngold left Austria for Hollywood where he reconsidered Warner's pleas.
Fantastic music and splendid performance - wonderful!!
Rudolph G Kopp was a contemporary and fellow countryman [both were born in the Hungarian-Austrian Empire] of Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Both worked in Hollywood at roughly the same time. Kopp was composing the music for Cecil B DeMille's "Cleopatra" at Paramount Pictures in 1934 when Korngold arrived in Hollywood to begin his long association with Warner Bros Pictures.
WELL DONE! THANK YOU!
Erich Wolfgang Korngold , composed a timelss iconic classic score !
just beautiful
This is so well done. Bravo!
from 4:00 to 11: 00--where does music so sweet come from ? the brain or the heart? so beautiful!
“Your sword, Gisborne.”
Absolutely glorious.
Always enjoyed Michael Curtiz's shadow effect for sword fights and Korngold's music to set that off.
Outstanding!
#2 on my Top 10 Movies of all time..
If only the volume was a little higher. I've got every thing on max and I practically have to put my ear near the speaker to fully enjoy this.
4:00: "Welcome to Sherwood, milday!"
suitie from 1938 movie the adventures of robin hood by composer erich wolfgong korngold my bother in law love sing
Superb !
Beyond astounding. I scroll down to read the comments and I think I'm hearing the movie. These people should have been the ones that made the CD soundtrack. Much much better than the William Stromberg one.
Wonderful
EXTRAORDINAIRE!!!