Eusebius Quartet, Alasdair Beatson - Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Chamber Music (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 300 Mb | Total time: 68:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: SOMM Recordings | # SOMMCD 0642 | Recorded: 2018, 2020
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 300 Mb | Total time: 68:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: SOMM Recordings | # SOMMCD 0642 | Recorded: 2018, 2020
Erich Wolfgang Korngold is best known for the scores to Captain Blood and other films he wrote in Hollywood after fleeing Nazism in the mid-1930s, but he was also a composer of concert music earlier (and later) in his career. This music was forgotten under the modernist regime but has been revived to great success. Korngold's chamber music, though, still qualifies as neglected, and this superb recording of the composer's Piano Quintet in E major, Op. 15 and String Quartet No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 26, plus a rediscovered string quartet version of his popular incidental music for Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, has been successful right out of the box.