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22 February 2024 Odense (Denmark)
Korngold and Bleuse
Odense Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pierre Bleuse - Carl Nielsen Salen, Odense Koncerthus
Program Info: Erich Wolfgang Korngold - The Adventures of Robin Hood Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, the concerto has themes from the scores for the movies ANOTHER DAWN (1937), ANTHONY ADVERSE (1936) & THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER (1937) Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Symphony in F# Opus 40, the Symphony in F# Opus 40 uses themes from ELIZABETH & ESSEX and CAPTAIN BLOOD in its slow movement and a theme from KINGS ROW in the finale.
Erroll Flynn jumps, fences, shoots with a bow and arrow and speed-talks his way through the classic Warner Bros. film The Adventures of Robin Hood from 1938. He does this opposite Basil Rathbone as Sir Guy of Gisbourne and Olivia de Havilland as Lady Marian. Not an eye is dry. But the real protagonist of the film is Korngold's incomparable music, which also won an Oscar. Poignant, sweeping, eerie and romantic are the tones that play such a significant role in The Adventures of Robin Hood from 1938. It is the music from this film that opens the concert. And who is this unrivaled film composer who has written all the music for tonight's programme? Erich Wolfgang Korngold was a child prodigy. He wrote operas in his teenage years, had a piano sonata premiered by Arthur Schnabel himself when he was 12-13 years old, and Gustav Mahler, Giacomo Puccini and Richard Strauss hailed him as a genius. He fled to the United States during Nazism and promised that he would not compose music for the concert hall as long as Hitler was in power. During that period, he established his name as the film composer above them all. When World War II ended, the first major work he composed was a violin concerto. And in the same way that you can hear that Korngold makes use of his background in the concert hall when he composes film scores, he also makes use of his immortal film themes in this violin concerto. He actually does the same in his symphony from 1952, albeit a little more discreetly. Both the violin concerto and the symphony are romantic and full of emotion, like Korngold's film scores, but there is room for greater reflection, and the slow movements in both works have a poignant mixture of fervor and seriousness in contrast to the bravura of some of the faster movements. Both ends of the spectrum are familiar to our chief conductor Pierre Bleuse, and with him on stage is the young violinist Alexandra Conunova.
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