Presenter Tom Service features Korngold in BBC Radio 3's flagship magazine programme today at 12.15. Includes interviews with biographer and apostle Brendan Carroll, Academic Erik Levi (who is joining Brendan, me and Ben Wallfisch for the South Bank round-table discussion next Saturday), Andre Previn, Korngold's daughter-in-law Helen and archive material from the composer's sons Ernst and George. You can hear it online for 7 days after the broadcast. More info here.
UPDATE, 12.55pm: It was a great feature - with one bad mistake. The date given at the end for the UK premiere of Das Wunder der Heliane is wrong. Tom says '14 November' and it is actually 21 November. But if you turn up on 14th, you can hear Nikolaj Znaider play the Violin Concerto.
Also, I'm not sure that they made it clear that Korngold's sons George and Ernst are not actually alive - their interview extracts were from archive material which I believe was provided by Brendan. AND nobody mentioned the kick-off events in the QEH Korngoldfest on 27 October: 1.30pm, Barrie Gavin's documentary; 3.30pm, the discussion. Nash Ensemble is after that.
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Well actually I did mention Oct 27, but it got cut out, as did quite a lot of other stuff. I wasn't especially happy that Korngold playing the piano was barely audible, particularly with Helen K talking so persuasively about its being so very special. But, they only wanted a 12 minute piece and so everything had to be crowbarred into it somehow. Let is hope IN TUNE takes a more leisurely approach on Friday!
You did a first-class job, Brendan! The announcement after the feature screwed up on the date(s). Fingers firmly crossed for a leisurely In Tune...
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