midsummer nights dream - question

General questions regarding E.W.Korngold

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Re: midsummer nights dream - question

Post by An Anonymous Musician » Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:41 am

bert wrote:What is Korngold's relationship to a Midsummer Nights Dream? Was this the movie scoring of Mendelssohn's music, or is original music written by Korngold involved?
I think most of it is Mendelssohn's material; even a great deal of his music not originally from MND which Korngold had adapted to fit the movie and be consistent with the instrumentation of the rest of the score made it into the final cut of the film. There are some segueing passages that are original though.
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Post by Bernd.O.Rachold » Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:14 pm

Dear Bert, a late tip: read Berndan´s marvellous lines in the booklet for
the recording of MIDSUMMER, cpo 999 449-2, plaid by the German S.O. Berlin, cond. Gerd Albrecht, who, too, conducted EWK`s op. 5 for Varèse
and who is a real Korngoldian. Bernd, Korngold-archive.-
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MSND recording

Post by peter hodgson » Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:41 pm

I'd strongly recommend the cpo recording (well, there's no choice anyway). A weird thing is that having become familiar with Korngold's romanticisation and expansion of the original Mendelssohn score, I now find the original a little bland!
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