The Piano Music

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KORNGOLD
The Piano Music
Martin Jones (piano)

[ Nimbus / 4 CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 25 November 2003

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Here the piano works are collected together for the first time, including a number of world premiere recordings.

From precocious child through to acclaimed Hollywood film composer, Korngold's career never ran quite true to form. Although hailed as a true child prodigy by Strauss and Mahler, having had his first opera performed at the age of 13, his true promise as a composer of varied and substantial works was never quite fulfilled. However, from his earliest works, Korngold wrote highly personal and astoundingly virtuosic music for the piano. Here the piano works are collected together for the first time, including a number of world premiere recordings.

Tracks:

Disc One

Sonata no.1 in D minor (1908/9)

Don Quixote - six character pieces after Cervantes (1909)

Der Schneemann - The Snowman
Pantomime in two scenes (1909)

Disc Two

Sonata no.2 Op.2 (1910)

Märchenbilder Op.3 (1910) - Seven fairy tale pictures for piano

Vier kleine fröhliche Waltzer (1911)
Four Waltzes for piano

Vier kleine Karikaturen für Kinder Op.19 (1926)
Four little caricatures for children

Was der Wald erzählt (1909)
What the woods tell me

Disc Three

Zwischenspiel - Intermezzo (Akt III) aus der Oper 'Das Wunder der Heliane' (1927) 8.03


Piano Trio in D major Op.1 (1910)
(with Richard McMahon)

Potpourri aus der Oper 'Der Ring des Polykrates' (1913) (arr. L. Ruffin) 9.42

Aus der Musik zu 'Viel Larmen un Nichts' Op.11 (1918)
'Much Ado About Nothing'

'Schach Brugge!' Burleske Nachtszene am Minnewasser aus der Oper 'Die Tote Stadt', Op.12 (1920) 9.37

Geshichten von Strauss Op.21 (1927) 10.18

Disc Four

Sonata no.3 in C major Op.25 (1931)

Der Schneemann - The Snowman - Four easy pieces

Schauspiel - Overture Op.4 (1911) (arr. F.Rebay) 13.15
(with Richard McMahon)

Große Fantasie aus der Oper 'Die Tote Stadt' Op.12 (1920) (arr. F.Rebay) 18.31