Patrick Savage; Martin Cousin - The Golden Age of Hollywood: Concert Works for Violin and Piano

The recording features music for violin and piano by Erich Korngold, Franz Waxman, Bernard Herrmann, Miklos Rozsa, Robert Russell Bennett, Jerome Moross and Heinz Roemheld. Much of the music is rarely heard and the album features three world premiere recordings. Australian-born violinist Patrick Savage researched and compiled the program during COVID lockdowns and performs the works alongside pianist Martin Cousin. Each of the composers represented on this album were Academy Award-winners or nominees and made an extraordinary contribution to the art of film scoring during Hollywood's Golden Age - the heady years of frenetic film production from the 1920s to the 1960s. Between them they composed scores for some of the most famous cinema of the era.