New Music Albums: KORNGOLD & BARBER (Paul Huang, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Jun Märkl)

Artist:
Paul Huang
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Jun Märkl

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
51:28

Record Label:
Naive

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CD, Amazon Music,
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Release Date
July 3, 2026

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Product Description: After two initial chamber music albums recorded with Helen Huang, violinist Paul Huang, recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2015, confirms in the concerto repertoire his strong affinity for the lyrical qualities of his instrument. He chose to record the concertos by Barber and Korngold for their broad, expressive melodies, their sumptuous harmonic language, and their climaxes of great emotional transparency, which echo the spirit of late Romanticism associated with Brahms, Tchaikovsky, or Bruch. Korngold himself said that he had composed his concerto "for a Caruso of the violin rather than for a Paganini." This is sure to appeal to the thirty-something violinist, who was drawn to his instrument at a very young age "because of it's singing tone, a sound that resembles the human voice."These two American concertos, dating from the mid-twentieth century, offer him the stimulating challenge of painting worlds that are both luxuriant and intimate, using the refined palette of a chamber musician. To meet this challenge, he is joined by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Jun Markl, a conductor with whom he frequently collaborates in concert. Korngold, an Austrian composer who fled to America in 1936 under pressure from the rise of Nazism and whom Mahler described as a "musical genius," composed extensively for Hollywood. Here, he notably draws his thematic material from several of his earlier film scores. The American composer Barber, for his part, captures the atmosphere of the United States in the 1930s, while also evoking the vast American landscapes and the industrial dynamism of New York. "A profound vulnerability also emerges from these two works, particularly in their sublime slow movements," the violinist notes. The slow movement of Barber's concerto expresses a deep sense of dismay, uncertainty, and despair characteristic of the Great Depression.The luxuriant Romantic language of old Europe, transformed through Korngold's experience in cinema, and Barber's lyrical voice - marked by great emotional sincerity and deeply rooted in the American soil - represent for Paul Huang two complementary visions of American musical identity. They take on particular meaning for him, a Taiwanese-born musician

TRACK LIST:

1 . Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35: I. Moderato nobile (10:11)

2 . Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35: II. Romance. Andante (08:56)

3 . Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35: III. Finale. Allegro assai vivace (08:02)

4 . Violin Concerto, Op. 14: I. Allegro (10:56)

5 . Violin Concerto, Op. 14: II. Andante (09:29)

6 .Violin Concerto, Op. 14: III. Presto in moto perpetuo (03:59)

Korngold And Barber Paul Huang London Philharmonic Orchestra Jun Markl

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New Music Albums: KORNGOLD & BARBER (Paul Huang, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Jun Märkl)

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