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Songs of the clown, Op 29
composer
1943
author of text
Twelfth Night
The Op 38 Songs of the Clown are all from Twelfth Night. Reinhardt, Korngold’s closest and longestterm collaborator, set up the Max Reinhardt Workshop in Los Angeles in 1937, a studio to train young actors and directors; he and Korngold continued to work together when possible and these songs were among the composer’s contribution to a studio production called Shakespeare’s Women, Clowns and Songs, though some of the Op 31 numbers had been written back in Vienna and were, naturally, recycled.
from notes by Jessica Duchen © 2008
Recordings
 Korngold: Sonnett für Wien & other songsSIGCD160Download only  Erich Korngold is perhaps best known as the pioneering émigré composer whose grand orchestral scores defined the sound of film during the golden age of Hollywood. Beautifully performed by Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) and William Dazeley (bariton ...» More |
 Sure on this shining nightCDA66920Archive Service  ‘This is a very charming record’ (Gramophone) ‘A delightful, imaginatively wide-ranging anthology. A most enjoyable entertainment as well as a true voyage of discovery’ (Hi-Fi News)» More |
Details
No 1: Come away, death
No 2: O mistress mine
No 3: Adieu, good man devil
I am gone, sir
No 4: Hey Robin
Hey, Robin, jolly Robin
No 5: For the rain, it raineth every day
When that I was and a little tiny boy
