The incidental music Erich Wolfgang Korngold composed for Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing has usually appeared on CD as a suite of five-to-seven selected pieces, but it is seldom presented complete with spoken dialogue. John Mauceri's album of the reconstructed work, performed by the University of North Carolina School of the Arts Drama Soloists and Symphony Orchestra, is about as thorough as can be imagined, for not only are the pieces that constitute the published version included, along with spoken parts, but scene ...
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The incidental music Erich Wolfgang Korngold composed for Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing has usually appeared on CD as a suite of five-to-seven selected pieces, but it is seldom presented complete with spoken dialogue. John Mauceri's album of the reconstructed work, performed by the University of North Carolina School of the Arts Drama Soloists and Symphony Orchestra, is about as thorough as can be imagined, for not only are the pieces that constitute the published version included, along with spoken parts, but scene change music and two additional pieces, the War Music and the Judgement Scene, have been restored and recorded for the first time. Stylistically, Korngold's music is typical of Viennese theater music of the 1920s, and it sounds effervescent, warm, and lush, even though the scoring is for a small chamber orchestra. Mauceri and his musicians play the music much as it was first heard, because the reconstituted score was made from facsimiles of the original parts and the conductor's...
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