R.Strauss
最后四首歌
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★ 7.7 6 ratings
Richard Strauss / Jessye Norman … genre: Classical
release date 1990-10-25 publisher: Polygram Records
Amazon.com essential recording Jessye Norman has what they call in the operatic business an "ample" figure. Judging from this disc, she must be completely hollow inside because she sings the Four Last Songs in what seems like a single breath, and at half the normal speeds. In fact, as sheer sound, this is the most sensual, voluptuous, totally gorgeous vocal record that I have ever heard. Play it for people who think they hate opera singing and they'll be hooked. Words really can't describe the almost decadent richness of Norman's voice, or the way it seems to swell from the speakers and saturate the room with velvety sound. --David Hurwitz Amazon.com Lovers of the Four Last Songs have come to take good recordings of the set for granted. Jessye Norman's early digital account with Kurt Masur and the Leipzigers is one of the best--powerful, sensuous, and very well recorded. Strauss may have conceived the songs with an ideal voice in mind, but he made a point of asking that Kirsten Flagstad give the first performance of the set. Since then, no comparably endowed soprano, in possession of both the tonal richness and the extraordinary amplitude that were Flagstad's, has recorded the Four Last Songs, save for Norman. The tessitura of the cycle is perfect for her--not too high, with almost every phrase lying in the warm, lustrous middle part of the voice--and Norman shapes the words with consummate skill and sensitivity. To hear her soar out over the orchestra, carrying the most demanding phrases with long-breathed splendor, is to enjoy, for a moment, the return of a golden age. --Ted Libbey
Strauss: Four Last Songs/12 Orchestral Songs
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★ 9.8 8 ratings
Richard Strauss / George Szell … genre: Classical
release date 1999-01-12 publisher: EMI Classics
理查·施特劳斯的创作生涯自艺术歌曲始,也至艺术歌曲终。6岁时,施特劳斯写出了第一首圣诞歌曲,到1948年,即他逝世的前一年,理查·施特劳斯又以著名的《最后四首歌》作为他的终笔之作。 施特劳斯一生钟情于艺术歌曲的创作,总共写出了由乐队或钢琴伴奏的歌曲200多首。究其原因,大概一方面是出于他对人声,特写是女高音与大型乐队相配合的喜爱,另一方面或许因为他的夫人就是一位歌唱家的缘故。他的艺术歌曲保有了他在歌剧和一些器乐作品创作中的特点,能非常和谐地把高雅情调与瓦格纳式的丰富多彩结合在一起,通过旋律赋予歌词以生命,从而尽显庄严、平和之色。 四首歌曲创作于作曲家与夫人移居瑞士期间,二战结束后,理查·施特劳斯由于与纳粹的密切关系而离开德国,也许是由于对漂泊生活的失望,他根据艾兴多夫的诗句写成歌曲《黄昏》,歌中明确表达出了告别幸福生活之感,管弦配乐也引用了早期交响诗《死亡与净化》中的旋律,听来令人非常动情。随后,一本新出版的赫尔曼·黑塞诗集激起了作曲家的创作欲望,他为其中三首诗谱曲写成《春天》、《九月》和《入睡》,就此完成了自己一生的创作。由女高音与乐队配合演唱的《最后四首歌》既是施特劳斯毕生辛勤劳动的一个光辉而动人的总结,也是后期浪漫派在音乐艺术风格上的完美体现。
R. Strauss: Don Quixote & Cello Sonata Op. 6
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Maximilian Hornung / Paul Rivinus … genre: Classical
release date 2014-08-18 publisher: Sony Japan
德國大提琴名家霍爾儂向理查史特勞斯150歲冥誕致敬之最新專輯。 世紀指揮大師海汀克指揮巴伐利亞廣播交響樂團,最真摯詮釋的交響詩《唐吉訶德》。 專輯同時收錄理查史特勞斯18歲天才之作----大提琴奏鳴曲,展現霍爾儂精采的演奏實力。 「霍爾儂可能是外星球來的。」德國時報周刊說:「他是一位早熟的天才,結合了老手的冷靜自信,又帶著新秀的年輕叛逆。」今年(2014)才二十八歲的霍爾儂,已經是德國最耀眼的大提琴明星,自從2005年贏得德國音樂協會首獎之後,他旋即展開耀眼的個人演藝事業,也曾與小提琴家慕特來台演出。2011年霍爾儂加入Sony發行個人首張專輯「Jump!」,便獲得當年度德國回聲唱片大獎,隔年再以德弗札克大提琴協奏曲錄音拿下年度最佳協奏曲專輯大獎。 霍爾儂2014年發行的最新錄音,是向今年一百五十歲誕辰的理查史特勞斯致敬之專輯,選錄的《唐吉訶德》是作曲家最受歡迎的交響詩名作之一。這是以變奏曲形式的協奏交響樂曲,大提琴擔任唐吉訶德一角,而中提琴則扮演僕從桑丘。本錄音由世紀大師海汀克指揮巴伐利亞廣播交響樂團,首席中提琴手曼寧豪斯(Hermann Menninghaus)擔任中提琴獨奏,而霍爾儂曾經也是該樂團的大提琴首席,彼此合作默契自然完美無瑕,與指揮家海汀克為這位夢幻騎士注入更多的理解與感動。 另外收錄理查史特勞斯早期的F大調大提琴奏鳴曲(作品6),這是作曲家十八歲就學時代所展現的天才成果,由霍爾儂與德國鋼琴家李雲尼斯(Paul Rivinius)擔綱合作,大提琴與鋼琴交相爭輝的競奏,是何等意興飛揚。這兩首理查史特勞斯的經典,將再次見證霍爾儂成為當今最傑出大提琴家的驚人實力。