Miklós Rózsa is rightly regarded as one of the giants of Hollywood music – a prolific composer of grand-scale film scores for historical and Biblical epic that fuse the stylistic influences from his pre-years in Hungary and Germany with the grand scale soundtrack music of Korngold and Steiner. Rózsa also composed a substantial body of music for the concert hall, including many appealing large-scale works for orchestra. The best-known of these is his Violin Concerto, originally composed for Jascha Heifetz and played in the present recording by New Zealand, now the concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic. The remaining works are drawn from James Sedares’s landmark survey of Rózsa’s complete symphonic works originally issued on Koch.
Miklós Rózsa: Violin Concerto, Theme and Variations, Vintner’s Daughter, Hungarian Nocturne
