The very opening of Erich Korngold’s violin concerto demonstrates why he was the premier film composer of the silver screen’s Golden Age. The solo violin’s upward-arcing first phrase climaxes, and ...

Seattle Symphony The very opening of Erich Korngold’s violin concerto demonstrates why he was the premier film composer of the silver screen’s Golden Age. The solo violin’s upward-arcing first phrase ...

The lone symphony by a composer whose film music helped define the Hollywood sound is now the star of a landmark recording. The Korngold Symphony (Supertrain Records) showcases two historically ...

Ronald reagan considered “Kings Row” (1942) his best work as an actor. Beyond its presidential cast, the small-town melodrama has another claim to fame. Moviegoers may find its lavish soundtrack ...

When Erich Wolfgang Korngold died in 1957, six months after his 60th birthday, he left a legacy of fine music, although to purists it must have seemed that his career had followed a sad trajectory. It ...

83 years ago, Erich Wolfgang Korngold wrote a film soundtrack that changed Hollywood. The year was 1938, and it was supposed to be a quick trip to Hollywood for the Viennese composer as he took a ...

Erich Wolfgang Korngold may just be the greatest composer you've never heard of. This year marks the 50th anniversary of his death. And the South Bank Centre is staging the biggest celebration of his ...

A revived Erich Korngold opera reminds us that he was more than a composer of stirring film scores. By Ivan Hewett It's been a good month for sightings of long-lost, semi-mythical big beasts of ...