“The Golden Violin – Music of the 20’s” is a concert experience exploring the fantastic music of the Roaring 20’s with chamber orchestra: the crackly sounds of early Hollywood, including dazzling tunes by Korngold, Chaplin, Gershwin, Rachmaninoff in modern and fresh arrangements.
Super classy and atmospheric, the project implores the glorious days of American and British stage music on the highest level, when classical and film music enriched each other in an inimitable way.
Daniel Röhn, one can say, stands alone in his ability to re-create the ‘black and white’, luscious violin playing of this time, unmistakably heard in his past recordings and recognised unanimously my major press publications.
The accompanying CD will be recorded with Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn and Case Scaglione and be released in January 2019 on EDEL / Berlin Classics
| Sergei Rachmaninoff
Ivor Novello Cecil Burleigh Artur Honegger Gottfried Huppertz |
Variation 18 from “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43”
The Land of Might-Have-Been Moto Perpetuo Three pieces from ‘Napoleon’ Music from “Metropolis” Maria mit Kindern Der Maschinemensch Freder und Maria |
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| George Gershwin | An American in Paris | |
| Joseph Suk | Song of Love (Chant d’amour) | |
| Darius Milhaud
~ Intermission ~ Ernst Bloch Kurt Weill Dmitri Schostakovich Charlie Chaplin |
Brazileira
Prelude Mack the Knife What Good would the Moon be Polka With You Dear in Bombay Theme from “Limelight” La Violetera from “City lights” |
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| Erich Wolfgang Korngold
John Crowther Gerald Finzi George Gershwin |
March of the Watch
Gweedore Brae (Irish Traditional) Romanze Op.11 It Ain’t Necessarily So Tempo di Blues ----------------------------------------------- addition: Londonderry Air (Irish Traditional) |
2:00’
3:30’ 8:00’ 3:00’ 3:00’ |
Like Heifetz and Stern before him, Röhn is so mesmerisingly in control
The Strad
Absolutely phenomenal – from the first to the last note. His sonority is often reminiscent of Heifetz, his flawless technique evokes to Szeryng
Diapason