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Composers of the Week: The Golden Age of Hollywood

BBC Radio 3
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Presented by David Huckvale.
Today, film music by Erich Wolfgang Korngoid , the Viennese opera composer who came to Hollywood in 1934 "to do one film" and stayed to write 18 more. With excerpts from his scores for The Sea Hawk, A
Midsummer Night's Dream, Captain Blood and The
Adventures of Robin Hood and from the cello concerto he arranged from his music for Deception. Plus scores by Bernard Herrmann , including the Concerto
Macabre from Hangover Square, On Dangerous Ground, Beneath the Twelve Mile Reef and the Hitchcock classic Psycho. With Joaquin Achucarro
(piano), Francisco Garbarro (cello), the National
Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles Gerhardt and Bernard
Herrmann and the Utah
Symphony Orchestra conducted by Varujan Kojian. Discs

Contributors

Presented By:
David Huckvale.
Music By:
Erich Wolfgang Korngoid
Unknown:
Robin Hood
Unknown:
Bernard Herrmann
Piano:
Francisco Garbarro
Conducted By:
Charles Gerhardt
Conducted By:
Varujan Kojian.
Source: Radio Times

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