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The Film Music of Erich Korngold, Volume 2
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD
(1897-1957)
The Sea Hawk
76:57
Suite from the film score
Edited by Rumon Gamba
Part I: 22:04
1.
Main Title
1:59
2.
Spain
3:21
3.
Slaves
1:25
4.
Big Drum
1:15
5.
The Albatross
1:54
6.
Battle
6:12
7.
Duel
0:36
8.
Slaves' Release
5:21
Part II: 15:11
9.
Night Banquet
2:28
10.
Love Scene on the Boat
5:39
11.
Throne Room
2:13
12.
Exit
2:01
13.
Elizabeth and Thorpe
2:48
Part III
14.
Rose Garden
4:12
Part IV: 10:52
15.
Jungle Orchid/Thorpe's Men Hiding
0:44
16.
Gold Caravan
1:36
17.
Attack
0:18
18.
Fight
2:16
19.
In the Jungle
1:27
20.
Ocean/The Hanging Man
4:28
Part V: 15:11
21.
The Galley
2:12
22.
Spanish Boat
2:06
23.
Rebellion/Along the Coast of Cadiz
2:22
24.
The Slaves Liberate Themselves/The Murder
5:11
25.
The Fight with the Guard
1:01
26.
Knife Fight
0:52
27.
Happy Sailing
1:26
Choral: Manchester Chamber Choir (male voices)
Part VI: 9:02
28.
Thorpe Enters into Castle
3:44
29.
Duel/Thorpe Fights/Elizabeth Intervenes
1:49
30.
Finale/End Title
3:28
Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:Rumon Gamba
4 & 5 January 2007
Notes
KORNGOLD: FILM MUSIC, VOL. 2 The conductor Rumon Gamba, who has been a key player in the Chandos Film Music series, has edited a suite in six movements from the complete score of Korngold's music for the film The Sea Hawk. Released in 1940, the film is considered by many to be the finest ever made in the genre. Certainly it was one of Errol Flynn's best films, with a lavish budget and excellent production values. Korngold's superb score is multi-layered and thematically complex, literally sweeping the film along and matching its extraordinary visuals. Gamba comments: 'I believe that hearing Korngold's score as a symphonic sweep will make for a wonderful listening experience, representative of the narrative and in keeping with the spirit of this marvellous picture.' He conducts the BBC Philharmonic on this featured Chandos disc which offers great cover artwork from Cassidy Rayne Creative.
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This 77-minute suite (edited by Gamba) from the score for the 1940 Errol Flynn swashbuckler is a classic and contains some splendid music, excitingly played. It is the variety of the invention that is so impressive, listen to the High Banquet music or the Love Scene. There is also a version for male voices of the film’s main theme. A welcome contribution to commemorating the 50th anniversary of Erich Wolfgang’ Korngold’s death.
Sunday Telegraph
With a Korngold revival imminent on the South Bank Chandos shows shrewd timing with this second volume of the Austro-Hungarian composer’s film music, a stylish adjunct to his output of operas, songs, orchestral and chamber works. Drawn to Hollywood in the 1930s, a Jewish refugee from Hitler’s Europe, Erich Korngold continued a concert career while writing scores for the movies of Errol Flynn, Bette David and others. His reputation was posthumously revived in 1972 by an RCA release of The Sea Hawk, a work played so stylishly here by the BBC Philharmonic under Rumon Gamba.
The Observer
The dynamic conductor Rumon Gamba has made his own performing edition of the score for this rip-roaring swashbuckler, one of Korngold’s finest. From the opening fanfares and big tune – both love theme and depiction of a ship in full sail – there’s never a dull moment: exoticism and evil in the jungle, slaves hauling at giant oars, and perfect musical characterisations of Errol Flynn as the pirate and Flora Robson as Elizabeth I.
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