Last week I was lucky enough to see Glenn Dicterow perform Erich Korngold’s Violin Concerto. This was a piece I had never heard before, but I was instantly enthused by it. It has three elements I really enjoy: heavy schmaltz, a little dissonance and echoey percussion like that you can find in Charlie Schmid’s original score from the motion picture Body/Antibody. YouTube has many good performances of it you can dig up, like this one.
