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Conductor José María Moreno
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Lord of the seven seas (Suite), Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Concerto No.1 for piano and orchestra in E flat major, S.124, Franz Liszt
Juan Floristán piano
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Symphony No.1 in A flat major, Op.55, Edward Elgar
1.40 h (w/intermission)
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photo ©Noah Saye
Program notes José Antonio Cantón
It took Erich Korngold only seven weeks to complete the 96-minute score for Michael Curtiz's film The Sea Hawk. Many critics consider it his best soundtrack. The 1940 adventure film starred Errol Flynn as a swashbuckling privateer in the service of Queen Elizabeth I of England. The Lord of the seven seas suite, which Korngold prepared from the film's music, was reconstructed in 2003 by arranger Patrick Russ.
The genesis of Franz Liszt’s Piano concerto No.1 in E-flat Major S.124 goes back to 1830, when he outlined the main theme in a booklet, not going back to work on it until the decade of the 40s. As a novice in the art of orchestration, Liszt was assisted by his student Josef Joachim Raff to give the piece an instrumental sense. He completed the concerto in 1849, but made several revisions over the following years. The final version of the work dates from 1856.
In 1898 Edward Elgar had considered beginning to compose a symphony based on the life of the British hero General Charles George Gordon, a plan that never materialised, although this did not prevent him from pursuing the idea of composing in this musical form. In 1904 he accepted a commission from the Leeds Festival Committee to write a symphony, which he approached with intense dedication given the scale he wanted to give the resulting work, his Symphony No.1 in A-flat Major, Op. 55.
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