Adelaide Summer Orchestra - Eric Korngold 'Violin Concerto in D major'

Norwood Concert Hall - January 15th, 2023
Soloist - Andrew Haveron
Conductor - Nicholas Braithwaite
Recording - Justin Pounsett
The Audio Embassy, Adelaide, South Australia
Recorded at the Norwood Concert Hall, Norwood, South Australia.
Korngold made frequent use of his pre-war concert music for his film scores but his violin concerto takes the opposite route, re-using themes from several films on which he had worked, in a symphonic context. The first movement makes use of themes from “Another Dawn” and “Juàrez”, while the slow movement takes its main theme from the score for “Anthony Adverse”. The finale's origins lie in “The Prince and Pauper”. The lush romantic style of the music certainly brings to mind the swashbuckling films for which Korngold wrote but its roots go back further to the turn of the century Viennese modernism from which Korngold first emerged as a child prodigy. This is reflected in the Concerto's dedication to an early champion of his, Mahler's widow, Alma Mahler-Werfel. The violin concerto was premiered by Jascha Heifetz in St. Louis , USA, in 1947.

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