ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD ~ Anthony Adverse (1936)

From acetates (restored and edited in sequence) of the original music tracks, featuring Erich Wolfgang Korngold conducting his Academy Award winning score for the 1936 film ANTHONY ADVERSE. Beginning with the beautiful, noble 'Bonnyfeather' theme, it effortlessly develops and modulates. We hear Anthony's theme (a simple rising scale), the solemn, insistent and strangely dissonant 'No Father, No Mother, No Name' motif, then the lovely theme for Father Xavier, and the gorgeous melody for Angela (as a child) before the marvellous moment where the scene dissolves on the boy Anthony (Billy Mauch), asleep in bed, who transforms into Anthony as a man (Frederic March). Korngold also "dissolves" the scene musically with a superbly thrilling treatment of the Bonnyfeather theme followed by Maria's theme, as a typical Korngold fanafare [sorry about the wow on the solo trumpet - this was inherent in the original recording & I could not correct it]. This important and largely unknown score cries out for a definitive modern recording.