I have had a number of enquiries and emails lately asking me about the history and background to the famous radio broadcast of Korngold's score to THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD in May 1938, so I am posting here below a link to an extended essaay I wrote recently for the Library of Congress in Washing...

https://www.europadisc.co.uk/classical/ ... _Vol.2.htm

Volume 2 of this collection is finally released by Naxos on June 25th.

Thirteen musicians present virtual concert of works by Ethel Smyth, Gustav Mahler, Nino Rota and Erich Wolfgang Korngold Recital goes live at 7 p.m. Thursday 29 April Find it on GTMF's FaceBook page and YouTube channel Free of charge GTMF.org See article here: https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/scene/mu...

https://filharmonie-brno.cz/en/events/c ... novak-100/

It will also be broadcast on Czech Radio

Just received the Spielplan from the Saarländische Staatstheater in Saarbrücken and it will stage Korngold's rarely performed Die stumme Serenade from April 27! It will also (given the dire COVID situation in Germany at present) probably be live-streamed on the Internet. https://www.staatstheater.sa...

Exciting news! A few months ago, my contacts in Hollywood that are close to the Warner Bros Archive, advised me that a 4k HD restoration of this famous Korngod film was in the works, and this is now confirmed for a May release on Blu-ray. A clip of the new print is already up on Youtube (link below)...

New York Times, April 1 2021 "At 25, Erich Wolfgang Korngold was inspired by the tragedy of the pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm as a soldier in World War I, to write a teeming, episodic, single-movement Concerto in C-sharp requiring just the left hand. First performed in 1924, ...

Released this week, a new recording of Korngold's Left Hand Piano Concerto:


https://bridgerecords.com/products/9547

The renowned Enescu Festival in Bucharest has just announced its programme and it includes Die tote stadt, which I believe will be its first performance in Romania. Ainars Rubikis conducts Korngold’s “Die Tote Stadt” Sept 10th starring Rolf Romei, Cristina Pasaroiu, Markus Werba, and Cristina Damian...

In the chaos of the pandemic, I somehow missed this new release, which came out at the end of last year: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Kathleen-Solose/dp/B08PTJCDQP The label is somewhat obscure but the release is nevertheless welcome. It is many years since the last recording of Korngold's piano sonat...

This review of the recent chamber music CDs by Spectrum, from Der Tagespiegel - is almost embarrassing in its fulsome praise:

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/spec ... 45908.html

~ BRENDAN CARROLL

Johannes Flesischmann's splendid new CD of Korngold & Zeisl will be officially launched on Jan 22, live from Vienna at 7pm CET. Full details, video introduction & links to the livestream event (on Facebook and Youtube) are available via this weblink: https://www.johannesfleischmann.at/exodus Contrib...

KORNGOLD Violin Sonata/ Schneeglöckchen Opus 9 and "Margit" from Vier Walzer plus the Erich Zeisl Violinsonate "Brandeis-Sonate"

New CD released January 22. Johannes Fleischmann, violin, Magda Amara, piano & Günter Haumer, baritone

https://www.odradek-records.com/album/exodus

The Berlin Philharmonic will perform Korngold's Symphony in F# next year at the Salzburg Festival under Kirill Petrenko, and will also tour the work. (Covid 19, permitting!)

https://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/en/ ... 2-petrenko

Vienna's splendid Exil.arte centre is closed to the public at the moment because of COVID, but an excellent 'virtual tour', in particular of the new Jan Kiepura-Marta Eggerth exhibition that so many of us cannot visit at the moment, has been posted online this week. Link below. The virtual tour has ...