The very opening of Erich Korngold’s violin concerto demonstrates why he was the premier film composer of the silver screen’s Golden Age. The solo violin’s upward-arcing first phrase climaxes, and ...

Erich Korngold's violin concerto sounds a lot like movie music, but it's every bit as virtuosic as any other standard repertory violin concerto. Violinist Shunsuke (SHOONS-kay) Sato gives it a fine ...

Don Juan Martin Turnovsky, Conductor Brno Philharmonic Orchestra Richard Strauss, Composer Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Composer Martin Turnovsky, Conductor Brno ...

Glenn Dicterow and the New York Philharmonic. Where: Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, 65th Street and Broadway, Manhattan. When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. How much: $29-$99. Call (212) 875-5656 or ...

Well, it was an idea. After presenting Erich Wolfgang Korngold's lushly romantic Die tote Stadt four years ago, the Dallas Opera decided to program the composer's effervescent first opera, the one-act ...

Jeremy Nicholas and Rob Cowan discuss the premiere recording from 1953 Jeremy Nicholas For some reason I have always been fiercely defensive about this work and, despite his less than agreeable ...

Gil Shaham, violin; London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn, conductor and piano (DG). Whereas Samuel Barber’s achingly beautiful Violin Concerto of 1941 has not lacked for distinguished advocates on ...

Erich Wolfgang Korngold was 50 years old at the time of the 1947 debut of his Violin Concerto in D Major, a lyrical and exuberant work begun a decade earlier. The half-century mark can seem ...

From the Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, Stephen Johnson is joined by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Rumon Gamba and soloist Matthew Trusler for an in-depth look at Korngold's colourful ...