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Korngold’s Die Tote Stadt and Violin Concerto On New Releases

Nov. 02, 2011

Korngold’s Die Tote Stadt and Violin Concerto On New Releases

The German label Oehms Classics has recently released a new recording of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's  Die Tote Stadt from a recent production by the Frankfurt Opera.  The new recording features world-renowned soloists Klaus Florian Vogt, Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Michael Nagy, Hedwig Fassbender, Anna Ryberg, Jenny Carlstedt, Julian Prégardien, and Hans-Jürgen Lazar with Sebastian Weigle leading the Frankfurt Opera and Museumorchester and the Chorus and Childrens’ Chorus of Frankfurt Opera. An intense psychological study of a man's obsession with his dead wife, Die Tote Stadt is a harrowing mix of hallucinatory fantasy and painful reality that has been compared to Hitchcock's Vertigo. This emotionally gripping, visually arresting trip into the dark side of a troubled psyche features a voluptuous, colorful score reminiscent of both Puccini and Richard Strauss. Oehms Classics has produced the recording in conjunction with Frankfurt Opera’s Live-CD Series. Purchase your copy at www.amazon.com.

On November 15, Korngold's Violin Concerto sees its newest commercial release on the French label Naïve. The new recording features violinist Laurent Korcia with Jean-Jacques Kantorow conducting the Liège Royal Philharmonic and individual movements from the concerto are available now for download from amazon. Pre-order your copy here.

Visit www.schott-music.com and www.korngold-society.org to learn more on the life and work of Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Violin Concerto, Op. 35 (1937/1939, rev. 1945)
for violin and orchestra
2(2.pic.).2(2.ca).2.bcl.2(2.cbsn)-4.2.1.0-timp. 2perc-hp.cel-str
23'

Die Tote Stadt (1916-1919)
an opera in three acts
for 2S, A, 3T, 2B; SATB Chorus
3(2pic)2 .ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn -4.3.btp in C.3.1-4timp.perc-2hp.cel.pno.harm.mand-str.
on stage: organ.2tp.2cl.perc
145'

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