The Golden Age of Hollywood: Concert Works for Violin and Piano
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Label: Quartz
Cat No: QTZ2156
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 12th April 2024
Contents
Works
HexapodaPastoral (Twilight)
Much Ado About Nothing, op.11: Suite for violin (or cello) and piano
Recitative and Aria for violin and piano
Sonatina for violin and piano
Variations on a Hungarian Peasant Song, op.4
Scenes (4) from Childhood, for violin and piano
Artists
Patrick Savage (violin)Martin Cousin (piano)
Works
HexapodaPastoral (Twilight)
Much Ado About Nothing, op.11: Suite for violin (or cello) and piano
Recitative and Aria for violin and piano
Sonatina for violin and piano
Variations on a Hungarian Peasant Song, op.4
Scenes (4) from Childhood, for violin and piano
Artists
Patrick Savage (violin)Martin Cousin (piano)
About
The recording features music for violin and piano by Erich Korngold, Franz Waxman, Bernard Herrmann, Miklós Rózsa, Robert Russell Bennett, Jerome Moross and Heinz Roemheld. Much of the music is rarely heard and the album features three world-premiere recordings. Australian-born violinist Patrick Savage researched and compiled the programme during COVID lockdowns and performs the works alongside pianist Martin Cousin.
Each of the composers represented on this album were Academy Award-winners or nominees and made an extraordinary contribution to the art of film scoring during Hollywood’s Golden Age – the heady years of frenetic film production from the 1920s to the 1960s. Between them they composed scores for some of the most famous cinema of the era.
Extraordinary music-makers were drawn to Los Angeles from across the United States and around the world, including those forced to flee the rise of Nazism in Europe. But even the most gifted of composers that made their name in cinema often faced an uphill battle for acceptance in the classical world. Professional jealousy may have been a factor, as well as snobbery: how could a composer for popular entertainment be taken seriously as an artist? This prejudice led to music of great value remaining in obscurity, but despite a resurgence of interest in film composers of those years, the works by Herrmann, Roemheld and Moross are recorded here for the first time.
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