Korngold - Film Music Vol.2: The Sea Hawk
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Label: Chandos - Movies
Cat No: CHAN10438
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 1st October 2007
Contents
Artists
BBC Philharmonic OrchestraConductor
Rumon GambaAbout
One of the most difficult assignments of Korngold’s career, it required a score of extraordinary length and complexity. The music was superbly multi-layered and thematically complex, literally sweeping the film along and matching its extraordinary visuals. Composition began just two days after the filming had been completed: in a special projection room equipped with a piano, Korngold had the reels of film run for him repeatedly while he improvised his music on the piano to the running footage. Later, he would then complete a full, annotated piano score. His training in the late romantic symphonic traditions served him well.
This recording has been very much a personal project for Rumon Gamba who comments, ‘as with the rest of the Chandos Film series I very much wanted to keep the music limited to a single disc, instead of being a dogged reconstruction of the complete score, including every single cue – some being just a quick trumpet figure or drum roll. I felt it was more important to represent the symphonic sweep of the score which is one of this film’s greatest strengths’.
Gamba has created a comprehensive ‘suite’ of six ‘movements’ that follows the action chronologically and only leaves out some insignificant cues and general repetitions. He continues, ‘I believe that hearing Korngold’s score in this manner will make for a wonderful listening experience representative of the narrative and in keeping with the spirit of this marvellous picture’.
The BBC Philharmonic performs the score with a symphonic precision and energy familiar from the first volume of Korngold’s film music, released in 2005.
This is a comprehensive suite from the film score of The Sea Hawk and is presented on a well-filled single disc.
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