Premiered simultaneously in Hamburg and Cologne in 1920, Die tote Stadt certainly justified the lofty praise heaped on Korngold in childhood—Gustav Mahler christened him a genius at age 12; a year ...
Musical expression requires the space between notes and phrases to tell a cohesive story and move the music forward. In their ...
Nelsons’ reading highlighted the music’s play of light and shadow vividly, the quiet spots in the Symphony’s outer movements ...