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Eusebius Quartet, Alasdair Beatson - Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Chamber Music (2021)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Eusebius Quartet, Alasdair Beatson - Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Chamber Music (2021)

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

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.

Eusebius Quartet & Alasdair Beatson - Korngold: Chamber Works (2021)

Posted By: Fizzpop
Eusebius Quartet & Alasdair Beatson - Korngold: Chamber Works (2021)

Eusebius Quartet & Alasdair Beatson - Korngold: Chamber Works (2021)
WEB FLAC (Tracks +Digital Booklet) 246 MB | Cover | 01:08:29 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 159 MB
Classical | Label: SOMM Recordings

Hailed by musicologist Nicolas Slonimsky as “the very last breath of the romantic spirit of Vienna”, Korngold’s stellar beginnings in Europe’s concert halls and opera houses were later overshadowed by his success in America where his soaring symphonic signature forged the template for the Hollywood soundtrack. But, as Korngold authority Brendan G. Carroll notes in his informative booklet essay, the composer’s “relatively small body of chamber works… is no less impressive and actually offers a succinct distillation of his style and voice, often to considerably profound effect”.