Erich Wolfgang Korngold
String Quartets Nos. 1-3

LABEL Naxos 8.574428
Performers : Tippett Quartet

Release Date March 9 2023

The inexorable march of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's magnificent opera Die tote Stadt into the worldwide repertory continues this coming July in Auckland, New Zealand!

https://www.aucklandlive.co.nz/show/die-tote-stadt

On 26th, the inauguration ceremony of the Austrian Federal President Dr. Alexander van der Bellen for his second term of office took place and Exilarte Vienna was asked to provide suggestions for the music of this celebratory event in the newly renovated parliament. The entire parliament was present...

As the season of Advent begins, I have uploaded a new video at Youtube of a rare and charming recording of Korngold conducting his own superb arrangement of the famous Christmas Carol 'Good King Wenceslaus' from a rare soundtrack acetate from the film 'Of Human Bondage' (1944). Full details on the b...

Erich Wolfgang Korngold's 2 act ballet Der Schneemann, (composed at the age of 11!) will be given 3 complete performances at the Leipzig Gewandhaus ( 11am, 4pm and 7pm, Dec 22)  It's the perfect Christmas musical gift and rarely done with dancers. This is a new salon orchestra arrangement of the sco...

I had to rub my eyes several times reading this extended, glowingly positive review of the Berlin Philharmonic's performance of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Symphony in F# in Boston a few days ago, especially as I recalled the first reviews accorded its premiere recording almost 50 years ago by the Mun...

Erich Wolfgang Korngold's last stage work "Die stumme Serenade" will receive its Austrian stage premiere next year on June 5.

(10 performances at the Wiener Kammeroper, Fleischmarkt 24, Vienna)

https://events.wien.info/en/15fe/die-st ... -serenade/

https://www.staatstheater-meiningen.de/ ... stadt.html

Opening October. Meiningen Staatstheater

Back in 2001, I had the great pleasure to collaborate with esteemed director Barrie Gavin in making a 100 minute TV documentary about Korngold for German TV. It has vanished from circulation now but I was delighted to find that it has just been uploaded to Youtube (link below). If you haven't seen i...

May 19-28 2022. Just in time for Korngold's 125th birthday!

https://news.euro-24.com/news/amp/259430

Korngold's final stage work will receive its first stage production in Austria, at the legendary Theater an der Wien, June 2023 - a theatre where Korngold conducted his famous adaptation of Eine Nacht in Venedig with Richard Tauber, 100 years ago. https://www.theater-wien.at/en/events/94/Die-stumme-...

The Landestheater in Linz announced its new season yesterday and it will open with Die tote Stadt on September 24! The press announcement states: " Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s late-Romantic masterpiece “Die tote Stadt” (from September 24) will kick off (the season). Bruckner Orchestra Chief Conductor ...

For the first time in English and the first original (not imported) stage production in the UK

March 25-April 8 2023

https://www.eno.org/whats-on/the-dead-c ... _id=115394

There's a rare chance to hear the exquisite Lieder des Abschieds by Erich Wolfgang Korngold at this year's Prague Spring Festival. The performance will take place at the beautiful art-nouveau Smetana Hall, on May 29 2022 ~ which just happens to be Korngold's 125th birthday! https://www.prague.eu/en/...

http://www.globeathay.org/whats-on/even ... ut-nothing

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http://www.musicweb-international.com/c ... 573355.htm

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https://www.classical-music.com/reviews ... tal-music/