Le Boeuf sur le Toit: Swinging Paris

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艺人: Alexandre Tharaud
语种: 英语
厂牌: Virgin Classics
发行时间: 2012年10月22日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

专辑介绍

过去法国钢琴家亚历山大·塔霍一向以细腻的钢琴独奏风格吸引乐迷，他的巴洛克音乐弹奏和演奏萨蒂（E.Satie）的作品，都让许多人深深着迷，塔霍对於萨蒂（E.Satie）同时代的法国音乐，有一种很能抓住那个纸醉金迷年代的幽默感，和道地的法国式享乐主义。或许是因为他的灵魂里，和那个年代有某种关联，也或者是因为他的祖父在当时也是很活跃於各种音乐场合的小提琴家，这让从小就听祖父讲述当时故事的塔霍，对当时的音乐和音乐活动感到兴趣。

《亚历山大·塔霍：屋顶上的牛（摇摆巴黎）》的名称是以二零年代开设在巴黎的一间小酒馆为名，这间小酒馆名为「屋顶上的牛 - B·eufsur le t·it」，用的是当时法国作曲家米约（D.Milhaud）的同名作品，这家小酒馆是当时许多艺文界名人常常造访的地方，因为当地有当时巴黎人最风靡的美国爵士音乐，包括诗人考克多（J.C·cteau）丶作曲家拉威尔（M.Ravel）丶画家毕加索（P.Picas·）等人，都经常造访此地，共同浸淫在爵士乐的氛围中。当时，屋顶上的牛有位驻店钢琴家，叫维纳（J.Wiener），毕业於巴黎音乐院的维纳（J. Wiener），是米约（D. Milhaud）的学生，也是萨蒂（E.Satie）的工作夥伴，後来成为经纪人丶作曲家和钢琴家。他和另一位钢琴家特杜塞（C.D·ucet）组成钢琴二重奏，两人经常改编古典音乐旋律融入爵士乐的节奏和趣味，在当时成为一种新的「轻古典」，红遍欧美，他们的录音至今还经常为人搜寻。维纳（J.Wiener）後来在一九四五年停止二重奏演出，专心作曲，塔霍八岁时见过他本人，而且从小就对他的双钢琴录音非常着迷，也就是因为他对维纳音乐的着迷，让他兴起了重现当时屋顶上的牛小酒馆中音乐的念头。

在《亚历山大·塔霍：屋顶上的牛（摇摆巴黎）》中，他特别录了四首他从维纳（J. Wiener）和特杜塞（C.D·ucet）二重奏录音中听写下来的钢琴曲，另外专辑中他也请到多位音乐界友人，有流行乐界也有古典乐界的名家，与他一同演出，包括花腔女高音娜塔莉·德赛（N.Dessay）丶美国歌手玛黛琳·蓓荷（M. Peyr·ux）等都各自在专辑中贡献自己的演唱。

Editorial Reviews

AN ENGAGING EXPLORATION OF 1920s PARISIAN JAZZ AND

THE CABARET VENUE WHERE IT FLOURISHED

Mr. Tharaud played with a subdued sensitivity and delicacy of touch that demanded close attention.

He got it.

-The New York Times, reviewing Tharaud in concert at (le) Poisson Rouge

On October 22nd, French Pianist Alexandre Tharaud will release Swinging Paris Le Boeuf Sur le Toit, a new album of jazz music inspired by the legendary 1920s Parisian cabaret. The album features a kaleidoscopic selection of music from composers ranging from Ravel to Gershwin to W.C. Handy, and includes a diverse group of guest artists including Natalie Dessay, Madeleine Peyroux and more. This new release caps a busy year for Alexandre - he starred in Michael Haneke s film Amour, which took the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival (Tharaud also provided the soundtrack to the album, which will be released on Virgin Classics in January of 2013), and was also featured on the smash hit Fifty Shades of Grey The Classical Album.

Alexandre will perform selections from the album at an intimate evening concert at New York City s (le) Poisson Rouge nightclub on October 23rd at 10PM, featuring several special guest performers. Tharaud will make his Carnegie Hall solo debut on October 24th with a program of Ravel, Chopin and Liszt, as well as several sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti from his acclaimed Scarlatti Sonatas album (one of NPR s 50 Favorite Albums of 2011 - all genres). He will also give a concert on October 26th at the French Embassy in Washington, DC.

Tharaud previewed Swinging Paris Le Boeuf Sur le Toit to a sold-out New York City crowd this past April, with the New York Times reporting: Mr. Tharaud played Chopinata, a clever jazz fantasy on Chopin themes by Clément Doucet, who was the house pianist at Boeuf Sur le Toit during its heyday. It was fun to hear his breezy account of Five O Clock Foxtrot, an arrangement of a dance episode from Ravel s opera L Enfant et les Sortilèges. He ended with a tasteful rendition of The Man I Love, the Gershwin classic.

The cabaret Le Boeuf Sur le Toit (literally The Ox on the Roof ) was a hotspot and melting pot of Parisian and international culture in the 1920s. As Tharaud explains: Every evening you would come across composers like Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie and the members of Les Six...even Stravinsky! There were French popular singers like Maurice Chevalier, Yvonne Georges, Kiki de Montparnasse and then, among the throng, lots of artists, such as Man Ray, Diaghilev, Coco Chanel, Georges Simenon...though they came from different worlds, everybody on the Paris scene came to Le Boeuf Sur le Toit for jazz and new music amidst the excitement of the Roaring Twenties. The cabaret s importance in the history of jazz can be gauged by its immortalization in the French term for having a jam session, faire le boeuf .

To help him faire le boeuf, Tharaud is joined here by a hand-picked group of colleagues. From the world of classical music come soprano Natalie Dessay (making her debut on the mouth trumpet!), pianist Frank Braley ( He is crazy about Gershwin, explains Tharaud); tenor Jean Delescluse and percussionist Florent Jodelet. Joining from the world of jazz and popular music are three singer-songwriters: Madeleine Peyroux (an American of French extraction) and French chansonnier singers Juliette and Bénabar, and guitarist David Chevallier (here on banjo). The actor Guillaume Galliene, a resident of France s most prestigious theatre, the Comédie-Française, takes on a cheeky comic song.

Le Boeuf sur le Toit: Swinging Paris

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