Rachmaninov: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 / The Isle of the Dead / Symphonic Dances / Vocalise / Aleko

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共18首歌曲

艺人: André Previn
语种: 其他
厂牌: EMI Classics
发行时间: 1993年04月13日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

专辑介绍

Sir Andre and the 1970s LSO had a unique, symbiotic relationship. Together with their Decca Rachmaninov Piano Concertos & Paganini Rhapsody (with Vladimir Ashkenazy), this cycle of the Symphonies (and the other major orchestral pieces) just may be their greatest work ever. The fantastic LSO strings, admittedly lacking the famous post-war Ormandy/Philly gloss, make it easier to take these works more seriously than before. (Granted, R's symphonies are not the Brahms FOURTH, or the Bruckner EIGHTH, but they deserve better than "pops-concert" condescension.) Everything runs deeper.

First off, a respectful nod to all the other reviewers here and a small, salient fact: RACHMANINOV COMPOSED MORE THAN THE SECOND SYMPHONY !!! (And yes, this SECOND is stupendous in its breadth and commitment.)

This FIRST SYMPHONY is pungent, exotic, at times even barbaric...The VOCALISE is bittersweet, not merely sweet. And Sir Andre actually takes the repeat !... The ALEKO fragments are tantalizing. The ISLE OF THE DEAD is no-holds barred and heady...But the real glories of this set are the THIRD and the SYMPHONIC DANCES...They pick up where Ormandy left off, great as Ormandy undoubtedly was with these works (after all, he DID prepare the THIRD's premiere for Stokowski, and conducted the premiere of the DANCES himself- and both under R's supervision).

Throughout the THIRD, you get a whiff of both the Russian countyside AND the American plains, with a Deliusian "sensuous heartbreak." Play the beginning of the THIRD's second movement and be instructed by its ontological sadness; marvel at the sly, compassionate humor of R's sticking a scherzo within an adagio and how this humor plays out at the end of the movement; be uplifted by the gamut of moods which Sir Andre holds together so beautifully in the last movement.

The SYMPHONIC DANCES were originally titled FANTASTIC DANCES- which is a better description of this music...It was to have been a three-movement ballet depicting Noon, Twilight and Midnight. The Noon of the first movement is restless and adolescent in mood (culminating with a regretful quote from the FIRST SYMPHONY, whose undeservedly failed premiere scarred R for life). The second movement (described in several places as a "haunted ballroom") is elfin & ghostly. The final movement of the DANCES is frighteningly deep and modern (in parts of this movement you'll think of Bartok !). By its very end, the DIES IRAE motiv (ever present in R's music) morphs into a kind of phrygian-mode, death-tinged "flamenco-gone-nuts"...But not before all kinds of ethereal encounters with lost youth, regret & sensuality (some faint, swaying echoes of the THE BELLS' 2nd movement: the "golden bells of happiness"), and adoration of God (a pentultimate, jazzed-up quote from R's VESPERS: "Blagosloven Yesi, Gospodi" - "Blessed Art Thou, O Lord").

Sir Andre & his band plunge into all this with a shattering, "total immersion" which will show you why R called the DANCES "my last spark."

Rachmaninov: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 / The Isle of the Dead / Symphonic Dances / Vocalise / Aleko　拉赫马尼诺夫：交响曲全集、死岛、无词歌、“阿列科”选曲、交响舞曲

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Rachmaninov: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 / The Isle of the Dead / Symphonic Dances / Vocalise / Aleko 拉赫马尼诺夫：交响曲全集、死岛、无词歌、“阿列科”选曲、交响舞曲

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最新简评（共22条）

Rachmaninov: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 / The Isle of the Dead / Symphonic Dances / Vocalise / Aleko　拉赫马尼诺夫：交响曲全集、死岛、无词歌、“阿列科”选曲、交响舞曲