André Previn conducts Gil Shaham and the LSO playing Korngold

Shaham’s account of the Concerto is still one of the finest around and Previn and the LSO make the Symphony bitter and sorrowful. The film score suites, though, miss a vital edge of swashbuckling elan. 

Jessica Duchen

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Jessica Duchen

Published: March 14, 2017 at 12:23 pm

COMPOSERS: Korngold
LABELS: Eloquence
ALBUM TITLE: Korngold
WORKS: Symphony in F sharp major; Violin Concerto; The Sea Hawk; The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, etc
PERFORMER: Gil Shaham (violin); LSO/André Previn
CATALOGUE NO: ELQ 4823438 (1994-2002)

Shaham’s account of the Concerto is still one of the finest around and Previn and the LSO make the Symphony bitter and sorrowful. The film score suites, though, miss a vital edge of swashbuckling elan.

Jessica Duchen

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Jessica Duchen

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Jessica Duchen studied music at Cambridge University and was the classical music correspondent for The Independent from 2004 to 2016. She has also written for The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Times, BBC Music Magazine and the JC, among others. Jessica Duchen has written librettos include numerous choral works and operas for the composer Roxanna Panufnik, including Silver Birch, commissioned by Garsington Opera and shortlisted for an International Opera Award in 2018. Two more works based on stories by Oscar Wilde were commissioned for Garsington’s Youth Company, The Happy Princess with composer Paul Fincham (2019) and The Selfish Giant with John Barber, which fell victim to lockdown, this has been postponed to 2021.
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