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Jan 11

Korngold Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35

Composed in 1945, Korngold wrote this work after retiring from film scoring. During WWII and, Hitler’s reign, Korngold gave up composing music other than film scores in order to support his family. Post WWII this piece was the first non-film composition that Korngold wrote after some convincing by violinist Bronislaw Huberman.

Although this piece was written following his film scoring career, in my opinion, it contains many film score elements. Full of dramatic action it is much like music for an opera, or an “opera without singing” as Korngold once said when speaking about film scores.

Please enjoy listening to the concerto, the previous three posts contain recordings of all three movements.

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