KORNGOLD: Hollywood Songbook

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)
Songs From Films
Give Us This Night (1936)
Sweet Melody of Night
Music in the Night
I Mean to Say I Love You
My Love and I
Escape Me Never (1947)
Love for Love
O Nené
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Old Spanish Song
The Private Lives of Elisabeth and Essex (1939)
Old English Song
The Constant Nymph (1943)
When You Are Gone
Shakespeare Songs op. 29
Twelfth Night: Songs of the Clown
Come Away, Death.
O Mistress Mine
Adieu, Good Man Devil
Hey Robin
For the Rain It Raineth Every Day
Shakespeare Songs op. 31
Othello
Desdemona's Song
As You Like It
When Birds Do Sing
Under The Greenwood Tree
Blow, blow, Thou Winter Wind
Five Songs Op. 38
My Mistress' Eyes
Highlights from The Silent Serenade
Serenade
The Manikin's Song
Till Tonight
Call My Heart Your Own
Song of Joy
Lovely Night

Steven Kimbrough, baritone
Courtenay Budd, soprano
Dalton Baldwin, piano

More than anybody else, Korngold has deserved to be called the Father of Modern Film Music. He rose to be renowned as the most exciting child prodigy of his days in Vienna, and his name evoked the best that melodic, tonal music had to offer in the 1920's and 1930's. He was tempted into the film world in 1935; the music he composed for "Captain Blood," "Robin Hood" or "The Sea Hawk" quickly set the standard for all composers in the future. He won two Academy Awards. Korngold left Hollywood in 1947 and returned to Vienna, but he discovered that he was forgotten by audiences in Europe, and that his tonal music was regarded as hopelessly outdated. Today, there is a new interest in his work. this CD offers some splendid examples of the music he composed in Hollywood.