Daniel Hope: Escape to Paradise
The Hollywood Album
Daniel Hope (violin), with Maria Todtenhaupt, Jacques Ammon and Sting
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Quintet of the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, Alexander Shelley
Hope's highly-charged and sumptuously expressive account of Korngold's Violin Concerto does the work proud.
Daniel Hope: Escape to Paradise
The Hollywood Album
Daniel Hope (violin), with Maria Todtenhaupt, Jacques Ammon and Sting
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Quintet of the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, Alexander Shelley
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Hope's highly-charged and sumptuously expressive account of Korngold's Violin Concerto does the work proud.
About
In his latest album Daniel Hope shines a new light on Hollywood scores as he takes a widescreen musical journey, seeking out the echoes of exiled European composers, such as Miklos Rózsa, John Waxman, Hanns Eisler, Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The center piece is the famous Violin concerto by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
The album also contains contemporary soundtrack classics such as Schindler´s List, American Beauty and Cinema Paradiso to reflect on the strong musical influence the Exile composer had and still has on contemporary film composers.
Guest artists featuring on this record are no one less than Sting who performs in a new arrangement on “The Secret Marriage” – a Hanns Eisler composition (originally with lyrics of Bertold Brecht, to which Sting wrote his own lyrics back in 1987) – and German singer phenomenon Max Raabe on the famous “Speak Low” by Kurt Weill. Top Arranger Paul Bateman provided brand new orchestral arrangements.
Contents and tracklist
- Daniel Hope (violin)
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Alexander Shelley
- Recorded: 2013-01-10
- Recording Venue: Konserthuset, Stockholm
- Daniel Hope (violin)
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Alexander Shelley
- Recorded: 2013-01-10
- Recording Venue: Konserthuset, Stockholm
- Daniel Hope (violin), Maria Todtenhaupt (harp)
- Recorded: 2013-04-29
- Recording Venue: Teldex Studio, Berlin
- Sting (vocalist), Daniel Hope (violin)
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Alexander Shelley
- Recorded: 2013-01-10
- Recording Venue: Konserthuset, Stockholm
- Daniel Hope (violin)
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Alexander Shelley
- Recorded: 2013-01-10
- Recording Venue: Konserthuset, Stockholm
- Daniel Hope (violin), Jacques Ammon (piano)
- Recorded: 2013-04-29
- Recording Venue: Teldex Studio, Berlin
- Daniel Hope (violin), Jacques Ammon (piano), Asaf Maoz (violin), Juan Lucas Aisemberg (viola), Christiane Starke (cello), Jochen Carls (doublebass)
- Quartett des Deutschen Kammerorchesters Berlin
- Recorded: 2013-04-29
- Recording Venue: Teldex Studio, Berlin
- Daniel Hope (violin), Jacques Ammon (piano), Maria Todtenhaupt (harp), Chie Peters (violin), Asaf Maoz (violin), Juan Lucas Aisemberg (viola), Christiane Starke (cello), Jochen Carls (doublebass)
- Quintett des Deutschen Kammerorchesters Berlin
- Recorded: 2013-04-29
- Recording Venue: Teldex Studio, Berlin
- Alexander Shelley, Max Raabe (vocalist), Daniel Hope (violin)
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Recorded: 2013-01-10
- Recording Venue: Konserthuset, Stockholm
- Daniel Hope (violin)
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Alexander Shelley
- Recorded: 2013-01-10
- Recording Venue: Konserthuset, Stockholm
- Daniel Hope (violin)
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Alexander Shelley
- Recorded: 2013-01-10
- Recording Venue: Konserthuset, Stockholm
- Daniel Hope (violin)
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Alexander Shelley
- Recorded: 2013-01-10
- Recording Venue: Konserthuset, Stockholm
- Daniel Hope (violin)
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Alexander Shelley
- Recorded: 2013-01-10
- Recording Venue: Konserthuset, Stockholm
- Daniel Hope (violin)
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Alexander Shelley
- Recorded: 2013-01-10
- Recording Venue: Konserthuset, Stockholm
- Daniel Hope (violin), Jacques Ammon (piano), Maria Todtenhaupt (harp), Chie Peters (violin), Asaf Maoz (violin), Juan Lucas Aisemberg (viola), Christiane Starke (cello), Jochen Carls (doublebass)
- Quintett des Deutschen Kammerorchesters Berlin
- Recorded: 2013-04-29
- Recording Venue: Teldex Studio, Berlin
- Daniel Hope (violin)
- Recorded: 2013-04-29
- Recording Venue: Teldex Studio, Berlin
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Daniel Hope shines a new light on the Sound of Hollywood. -
Daniel Hope - Escape to Paradise
14th Oct 2014
David talks to the violinist about his new disc of music by composers in exile in the US.
Awards and reviews
November 2014
Hope's highly-charged and sumptuously expressive account of Korngold's Violin Concerto does the work proud.
6th September 2014
Pieces played in new arrangements bask in the luxuriantly romantic world of Korngold, Rósza and their contemporaries.
October 2014
At the heart of this disc is his swashbuckling performance of Korngold's Violin Concerto, where Hope brings off with aplomb the tension between the work's contrasting lyrical ideas and the electric energy of the virtuoso writing. It's as if he had in mind the screen hero Errol Flynn
29th August 2014
the real singing comes from Hope’s violin, soaring through an agreeable selection from the works of European composers who found refuge in California. The highlight is Korngold’s Violin Concerto, luxuriously rendered with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and conductor Alexander Shelley.
