Korngold's Die stumme Serenade

[brendangcarroll]

Korngold's charming SILENT SERENADE will be played at the Schleswig-Holsteinische Landestheater this coming September!


https://www.sh-landestheater.de/stuecke/die-stumme-serenade/

[Alan Howe]

You can hear the (deleted?) cpo recording here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb0qdWQqVvY
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/Erich-Wolfgang-Korngold-1897-1957-Die-stumme-Serenade-op-36/hnum/7347574

Some glorious stuff here.

[brendangcarroll]

The historic 1951 Radio Vienna premiere, with Korngold himself conducting from the piano, has also been released and is available on various formats. (see links below)

https://www.soundofmusic-shop.de/CD_DIE_STUMME_SERENADE_-_Radio_Cast_Vienna_1951.html

https://www.europadisc.co.uk/classical/115494/Korngold_-_Die_Stumme_Serenade.htm

[eschiss1]

One can also stream the cpo recording over Amazon Music, Apple Music, etc. It's listed by cpo as currently not available, which may not be the same as deleted.

[ewk]

I own the historic recording with Korngold at the Piano, and it has quite a charm to it. The spoken passages are so unmistakably Viennese! The plot is rather silly, of course (if it wasn't in my mother tongue, I could easily just not pay attention to the dialogues and song texts, but as it's German I can't). But given the music and the many earworms, I don't care!
Very nice to hear that it is going to be staged.