Korngold - The Sea Hawk / Deception

During the early 1930’s, film scoring was still in its infancy since the advent of sound was still making a mark as the new definitive way of doing films. To this end, music was one of the most potent new aspects discovered to help make a film more dramatically potent, best exemplified by Max Steiner’s historical score for King Kong back in 1933, a symphonic score underlining the boundaries of a jungle setting. When music in films was recognised as an important element in telling a story, there arose a need for new film composers, and many of the early Hollywood composers indeed migrated from Europe to fill in this need. One of the most illustrious was undoubtedly Erich ...  Read the complete review