Sursum Corda / Sinfonietta
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) earned his bread-and-butter money writing for the  movies in Hollywood. But all along he was a serious composer--and got booed a couple of times. This was  the fate ofSursum Corda(1920), with its staunch refusal to stick to the standard sonata format. The  tempo and the meter are constantly changing; the first audience to hear it actually heckled the orchestra.Sinfoniettawas written when (gulp!) the composer was 15 years old. You wouldn't know it, except  for its brightness and playful character. It's actually quite a brilliant work. Familiarize yourself with it.-- Paul Cook