NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra - Korngold: Orchestral Works (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 294 MB | Tracks: 8 | 61:51
Style: Classical | Label: CPO
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 294 MB | Tracks: 8 | 61:51
Style: Classical | Label: CPO
Erich Wolfgang Korngold began composing his String Sextet during his vacation in Alt-Aussee in the summer of 1914 and while working on Violanta, his second opera. At the time he was seventeen years old, had already established himself internationally as a composer with an impressive work catalogue, and was regarded as the greatest child prodigy of his time. In the Sextet, heard here in an arrangement for string orchestra by the conductor Hartmut Rohde, Korngold employs the most opulent, most richly colorful style in order to produce a highly romantic work consisting of four complex movements.