I just heard this on KUSC (Southern California classical music radio station). Drenched in romanticism and bearing the unique Korngold stamp, I loved every minute of it. And the tenor is DeHaan.
I was acquainted with Die tote Stadt, and as soon as Decca came out with the series Entartete Kunst I heard for the frist time Das Wunder der Heliane and immediately it pinced me in the heart ... and it still does. This music moves me even more than Puccini, Wagner or Richard Strauss. Thank you for sharing this.
I cannot but totally agree. Marvelous music, technically perfect, but more than all, simply moving. And regarding to the old critic's claim, "that this is Kitsch" - well, for me, at least, this is the opposite to that
@bulansabriel1 The old snobbish critique of Korngold was "Korngold sounds like movie music!" No. Movie music (of the Golden Age) sounds like Korngold!
Sorry, but this is not Gedda! Gedda sang the role of the blind judge in Act 2. The tenor in this excerpt is John David DeHaan. The music is absolutely glorious! I'd love to see it performed live in the opera house!
I just heard this on KUSC (Southern California classical music radio station). Drenched in romanticism and bearing the unique Korngold stamp, I loved every minute of it. And the tenor is DeHaan.
marlyharris 7 months ago
good
13Orcun 8 months ago
gosh...nightmare of beauty is a wonderful way of putting it...so hauntingly gorgeous...
bari2tenor 9 months ago
This, to me, is the ecstatic summit of all opera. It outdoes Wagner. I think the gates must have opened, and Korngold peeped through. Just listen.
Jezetha 1 year ago
I was acquainted with Die tote Stadt, and as soon as Decca came out with the series Entartete Kunst I heard for the frist time Das Wunder der Heliane and immediately it pinced me in the heart ... and it still does. This music moves me even more than Puccini, Wagner or Richard Strauss. Thank you for sharing this.
rayvanangeltjes 1 year ago
Remarkable music: Korngold stands at the helm of composers for the orchestra; he and Wagner and Puccini.
Here, he's pushed the envelope limits of chromatic harmonies and barrelled into atonal.
What a gift he was to the 20th century.
MingnonDunn 2 years ago 2
What power! Glorious music. I have to wipe my eyes.
minacciosa 2 years ago 2
I cannot but totally agree. Marvelous music, technically perfect, but more than all, simply moving. And regarding to the old critic's claim, "that this is Kitsch" - well, for me, at least, this is the opposite to that
bulansabriel1 2 years ago 2
@bulansabriel1 The old snobbish critique of Korngold was "Korngold sounds like movie music!" No. Movie music (of the Golden Age) sounds like Korngold!
Cramnella 1 year ago
@Cramnella I agree. And the same could be said of Wagner.: There would be NO movie music without him.
MingnonDunn 1 year ago
@bulansabriel1
"...this is the opposite to that"
you are so very right!
(sorry for the time passing, inbetween...:))
Severolus 1 year ago
There is something about Korngold's music. Like a nightmare of beauty.
Ear4Beauty 2 years ago 2
nightmare of beauty...nice.
he was born too late.
Severolus 2 years ago
This is an extraordinary opera and its music is too long left in the shadows. Korngold has proven his genius with this work.
jgesselberty 2 years ago 4
Fantastic!!!! Thanks for this such a wonderfull work, more people should know, one of the most amaizing operas of 20th century!!!
HORACIOPINIONES 2 years ago 2
Sorry, but this is not Gedda! Gedda sang the role of the blind judge in Act 2. The tenor in this excerpt is John David DeHaan. The music is absolutely glorious! I'd love to see it performed live in the opera house!
easywes 2 years ago 3
There is life outside!
Indeed, this is not Gedda...but i like Gedda...and i'm not willing to "redraw" this "video"...
The music is still extraordinary, right?
Severolus 2 years ago 2
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Herur22 2 years ago 4