Violin Recital: Joseph Lin

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Cat No: 8557067

Release Date: 01 May 2004

Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

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Barcode: 747313206728

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: Violin Recital

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Erich Wolfgang von Korngold (1897-1957)Music for Violin and PianoTogether with Mozart, Mendelssohn, Busoni and Enescu, ErichWolfgang Korngold was a notable prodigy as a composer. Born in Br??nn (now Brno)on 29th May 1897, the second son of the music critic Julius Korngold, heimpressed Mahler with his music when he was only nine, and consolidated thiswith the score for the ballet-pantomime Der Schneemann (The Snowman), firstgiven at the Vienna Court Opera in 1910. A series of orchestral, chamber andoperatic works followed, culminating with the dual premi?¿re in 1920 in Hamburgand Cologne of his opera Die tote Stadt (The Dead City) (Naxos 8.660060-61).The work brought him international fame at the age of 23. The success of hisnext opera Das Wunder der Heliane (The Miracle of Heliane) was blighted,however, by the worsening political situation, while Die Kathrin was not heardin Vienna because of the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany. In 1934 Korngold moved to Hollywood at the invitation of MaxReinhardt. There he embarked on a series of film scores over the next decade,including Captain Blood (1935) (Marco Polo 8.223607), The Adventures of RobinHood (1938) and King's Row (1941), bringing his music to an audience ofmillions. After the Second World War Korngold returned to the concert hall,but, apart from a Violin Concerto (Naxos 8.553579), championed by JaschaHeifetz, his effulgent late-Romantic style found little favour in post-warEurope, and his death on 19th November 1957 attracted little attention. Recentdecades, however, have seen a resurgence of interest in his music, with anumber of performances and recordings marking the centenary of his birth in1997. A pianist by training, Korngold, like his older contemporaryRichard Strauss, clearly identified the violin with the human voice, and theinstrument features prominently in his operas and orchestral works. At theprompting of the violinist Carl Flesch and the pianist Artur Schnabel, in 1912he wrote his Violin Sonata in G major, with the premi?¿re being given by thesemusicians in Berlin the following year. The first movement, Ben moderato, macon passione, opens with a suave melody shared between the instruments. Asecond theme, following at much the same tempo, is more wistful andinward-looking. An interesting feature of the development is the piano's takingover the rhythm of the first theme in the left hand, over which the violin hassnatches of sul ponticello. The recapitulation is mainly allotted to the secondtheme, before the movement tapers off in a gentle coda. The lengthy Scherzo,Allegro molto, con fuoco, opens with cavorting passage-work, followed by acapricious subsidiary theme and much wide-ranging motivic transformation. Thetrio, Moderato cantabile, features an expressive melody taken from the Vierkleinen frohlichen Walzern for piano. Marked 'with deepest feeling', the Adagioinitially has a slightly rhetorical feel, the muted second theme and itslapping piano accompaniment
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