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In Reply to: RE: Great works that you just don't know like you should posted by TGR on January 20, 2016 at 16:40:21
I will catch up with this whole thread later, have to run to a concert now, but TGR I couldn't help but notice that you said you were familiar with Die Tode Stadt but NOT Dosenkavalier. That to me is extraordinary - you might be the only person that that is true of, LOL!
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A few years back I was attending a performance at the opera, struck up a conversation with some folks nearby, who mentioned that they had seen the SF Opera's performance of Die Tote Stadt a few nights before and it to be fabulous. So I attended the next performance, and yes, it was fabulous. I also have the Leinsdorf recording. I have few other recordings of Korngold's music - the symphony with Kempe conducting, the violin concerto with Heifetz, and a few of the movie scores. Pity that the snobbery towards film composers has prevented his work from being more widely known.
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. . . "It's funny how so many of Heifetz's recordings are notorious for being balanced in favor of the soloist, but in this concerto, you can actually hear some orchestral details on the Heifetz (mono!) recording that you can't hear on Mutter's or Shaham's recordings - they're balanced so far forward (although the Mutter recording is better in this respect)."
Full review (in the context of Nicola Benedetti's recording of the Korngold Concerto, and with a run-down of several other recordings of the work):
Oh my God I so did NOT mean to type Dosenkavalier - Der Dosenkavalier!! One of my favorite pieces by Strauss, for sure. The writing for female voices in that opera is perhaps unsurpassed, and equalled only by Mozart, his idol.
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