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Article: Korngold: The Sea Hawk; Symphony in F-Sharp. James DePreist, Oregon Symphony Orchestra. Delos DE 3234.(Review)
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- April 1, 1999
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Korngold: The Sea Hawk; Symphony in F-Sharp. James DePreist, Oregon Symphony Orchestra. Delos DE 3234.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold's score for the 1940 film The Sea Hawk has long been yardstick for swashbuckling music, and DePreist's version of it is as swashbuckling as any. Of course, there are a number of good performances of this work already available and you probably have one of them, so the real find is Korngold's Symphony in F-Sharp, of which there are few recordings. Premiered in 1954, this large-scale symphony was a throwback to old-fashioned Romanticism, at the time no longer in vogue, and it was largely dismissed as being out of touch with modern music. ...