Korngold's "Superman" Symphony!

Sadly, there is no clip of the second movement of Korngold's Symphony on YouTube. Should you purchase this glorious Symphony on CD, you will discover a theme in the second movement that sounds a LOT like a John Williams filmscore we all very much know. Considering that the Symphony(1947-1952) predates anything Mr. Williams' did "compose", it is no wonder that I find him less and very much less ORIGINAL! There are times in the Symphonies of William Alwyn where I expect Luke Skywalker to jump out the speakers! There were days, in the past, when studios had REAL composers writing original filmscores: Miklos Rozsa, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Max Steiner, Malcolm Arnold and so many more. Imagine that the studios in the Soviet Union had Prokofiev and Shostakovitch writing scores. As for today.......well, why bother even bringing that up!

I heartily recommend Korngold's glorious Symphony. The recording on the Chandos label is both out of this world and remarkably inexpensive!