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发表于 2004-4-15 05:10:59
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施瓦兹科普夫演唱的“最后四首歌”录音不止一次。下面这个EMI参考系列的单声道版本有人注意过吗?碟评里对1965年那个经典录音的看法间接支持老唱片的意见。:p
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Once again EMI has reissued the historic Elisabeth Schwarzkopf 1953 recording of Four Last Songs, sounding better than ever, a well-balanced mono recording , made under the keen ear of her producer-husband, Walter Legge. This music was a specialty of Schwarzkopf and it is fortunate that she recorded it when she was in her prime; her 1965 Berlin recording with George Szell conducting (which is about three minutes longer than the first) retains the insight into the music but her voice isn't as secure -- although from a sonic viewpoint the latter stereo recording is quite superior. The first time Schwarzkopf performed Four Last Songs was in 1951 with Paul Kletzki conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, after which she then sang them often with leading orchestras. In 1964 she sang them with the Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Szell, and I vividly remember a performance with the Baltimore Symphony under Massimo Freccia in November 1957 when she sang the music more expansively than on the 1953 recording, with a seemingly endless breath supply. CD notes refer to a recording of a 1956 London concert with Karajan and the Philharmonia Orchestra; I don't know of this ever being issued on CD—it surely would be fascinating to hear. A later live performance with Karajan/Berlin PO, briefly available on CD, is quite disappointing—an off day for both the soprano and orchestra. The new EMI issue is filled out with the final scene from Capriccio, and almost forty minutes of excerpts from Arabella in which she is joined by Anny Felbermayer (Zdenka), Josef Metternich (Mandryka), Harald Pröghöf (Dominik), Murray Dickie (Elemer) and Walter Berry (Lamoral), a recording made in 1954. Texts are provided for all but the Arabella excerpts which have only a synopsis of each track.
STRAUSS: Four Last Songs. Closing Scene from Capriccio. Excerpts from Arabella.
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano; Anny Felbermayer, soprano; Josef Metternich, Walter Berry and Harald Proglhof, baritones; Murray Dickie, tenor; Philharmonia Orch/Otto Ackermann and Lovro von Matacic (Arabella), cond.
EMI CLASSICS REFERENCES 67495 (M) (ADD) TT: 77:32 |
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