Korngold: Much Ado about Nothing, Op. 11

Featuring

John Mauceri
Jackie Robinson
Ari Itkin
Daniel Emond
Jessica Richards
Romolo Wilkinson

Christian Daly
Drew Bolander
Chesley Polk
Nik Danger-James
Charles Osborne
Jamar Williams
Emily Ussery
Laura Hall
University of North Carolina School of the Arts Symphony Orchestra
Erich Wolfgang Korngold

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Recording & Production

This album includes some of Shakespeare's dialogue with the music, and also repeats the orchestral sections without dialogue at the end of the disc.

Interpretation

The orchestra on this recording is the same size as the one Korngold used for the 1920 premiere, featuring a string quartet rather than a full string section.

Interpretation

The performers were able to replicate the original bowings and articulations from the 1920 Vienna premiere because they had access to the original parts.

Recording & Production

This recording attempts to reconstruct the complete work of Korngold's Much Ado about Nothing, including some music that has never been published.

Recording & Production

The composer's grandson, Leslie Korngold, provided recordings made by the composer to help determine tempo and portamento for this album.

Recording & Production

The recording used color photocopies of the original orchestral materials and an annotated conductor's score from the Austrian National Library to inform its performance.

Composition History

Erich Wolfgang Korngold, the composer, was only 21 years old when his incidental music for Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing premiered in Vienna in 1920.