The Film Music of Erich Korngold, Volume 2 Choir Orchestral & Concertos Chandos

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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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