Korngold was an Austrian wunderkind who took his considerable talents to Hollywood just as war broke. There he wrote film scores of new scope and invention, ‘wordless operas’ as he called them.
The season closes with the lush colours of Korngold and the bristling intensity of Mahler’s fifth symphony.
The season closes with the lush colours of Korngold and the bristling intensity of Mahler’s fifth symphony.