This incidental music for Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing dates from the heady period in the young composer’s life when Puccini himself characterized Korngold as the “greatest hope for German music.” Written in 1918 for performances at Schönbrunn Castle and Vienna's Burgtheater, World War I precluded its interpretation by a symphony orchestra. Korngold arranged the whole work in a version for violin and piano. Two years later, he chose four pieces from the score and joined them together to form a suite. The first movement, “The Maiden in the Bridal Chamber”, describes the emotions of a young woman whose wedding day approaches, while the second movement’s march presents two slightly tipsy night watchmen. The “Garden Scene” depicts a girl in love, while the concluding “Masquerade” is a musical portrait of a group of happy-go-lucky musicians who strike up music for a hornpipe dance.Jessica Mathaes
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
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Recorded on 11/21/2013, uploaded on 04/26/2013
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This incidental music for Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing dates from the heady period in the young composer’s life when Puccini himself characterized Korngold as the “greatest hope for German music.” Written in 1918 for performances at Schönbrunn Castle and Vienna's Burgtheater, World War I precluded its interpretation by a symphony orchestra. Korngold arranged the whole work in a version for violin and piano. Two years later, he chose four pieces from the score and joined them together to form a suite. The first movement, “The Maiden in the Bridal Chamber”, describes the emotions of a young woman whose wedding day approaches, while the second movement’s march presents two slightly tipsy night watchmen. The “Garden Scene” depicts a girl in love, while the concluding “Masquerade” is a musical portrait of a group of happy-go-lucky musicians who strike up music for a hornpipe dance. Jessica Mathaes
More music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Welt ist stille eingeschlafen
Come Away, Death
Unvergänglichkeit
Four Pieces from Much Ado About Nothing, Op. 11
Was Du mir bist?, from Drei Lieder, Op. 22
Mit Dir zu schweigen, from Drei Lieder, Op. 22
Welt ist stille eingeschlafen, from Drei Lieder, Op. 22
Marietta's Lied, from Die Tote Stadt
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
Ich ging zu ihm, from Das Wunder der Heliane
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Orientale, from Kaleidoscope
Scherzo for Violin and Piano in c minor, WoO posth. 2 (from F.A.E. Sonata)
Staring at The Unremembering Moonlight: Elegy for Violin and Piano
On Passing Texas Churches at Mystic Sunset: Hymn for Solo Violin
Vidui, from Baal Shem
Nigun, from Baal Shem
Sonata for Violin in E-flat Major, Op. 18
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