DECEPTION (1946) - Performance of Hollenius' Cello Concerto

Here is one of my favorite scenes from DECEPTION (1946), starring Bette Davis, Claude Rains and Paul Henreid and directed by Irving Rapper. For this performance scene of the cello concerto, film composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold lifted some material from two earlier film scores--the ravishing main title music from BETWEEN TWO WORLDS (1944) and a theme from THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX (1939)--into the second subject and Adagio section, respectively.

The concerto's cadenza features a passage impossible to realize on the cello, when the soloist Karel Novak (Paul Henreid) plays rapid consecutive 10ths. It was achieved by having cellist Eleanor Slatkin record a double track in post-production and later, at a Hollywood dinner party, famous cellist Gregor Piatigorsky asked Paul Henreid how he managed to do it!

This concerto was later published in an expanded form as Korngold's Cello Concerto Op. 37.

This clips are only samples. If you wish to watch the whole movie, please be good enough to watch it on television or borrow, rent or buy it on VHS or DVD!

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[celloguy]

Absolutely agree Celloman!

[Celloman4044]

That is the best faking I have ever ever ever seen, He looks like a professional! Eleanor sounds absolutely fantastic!