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Alexander Frey responds with sensitivity to the rubato and general ebb and flow of Korngold’s deeply Viennese, waltz-imbued music.
All this music is enchanting – and, astonishingly, was written before the composer turned 15. The child prodigy Korngold’s proficiency is mind-boggling, and to judge from these pieces he must have been quite a pianist as well. All of these short pieces are pictorial, and so evocative and full of fluctuations of mood and image that they almost form a premonition of Korngold’s future success in composing film scores. The Märchenbilder evoke fairy-tales and their characters; Don Quixote depicts six elements of a book that the youthful composer precociously adored; and each of the Four
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Waltzes is named after a different young girl he liked. Pianist Alexander Frey responds with sensitivity to the rubato and general ebb and flow of Korngold’s deeply Viennese, waltz-imbued music; it’s certainly good news that this is just the first disc in what will be a complete set of the composer’s piano music.
-- Jessica Duchen, BBC Music Magazine
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Works on This Recording
1.
Märchenbilder (7) for Piano, Op. 3 by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Performer:
Alexander Frey (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1910
2.
Waltzes (4) for Piano by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Performer:
Alexander Frey (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: Austria
3.
Don Quixote by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Performer:
Alexander Frey (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1908; Austria
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