1970年代晚期DECCA錄音技術與維也納愛樂的完美結合~史特拉汶斯基與巴爾托克芭蕾音樂

這套2CD是1970年代晚期DECCA所推出的夢幻發燒片.由當時最先進的錄音技術搭配維也納愛樂,錄製了史特拉汶斯基與巴爾托克芭蕾音樂.
 
Stravinsky’s ground-breaking trilogy of Diaghilev-commissions plus a scandalous Bartók ballet, treated to sumptuous late-70s Decca engineering and the Vienna Philharmonic sound.
Christoph von Dohnányi has long been considered one of the most versatile conductors of our time, making a name for himself in particular with the works of Romanticism and the Second Viennese School. From early in his career he established an excellent rapport with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Both in concert and on record he drew from them, playing of unusual transparency and clean attacks, in music from Mendelssohn to Philip Glass.
This generous Eloquence anthology of four complete Decca LPs brings together the Vienna Philharmonic’s only Stravinsky recordings for Decca and finds Dohnányi on home turf with ballets by his countryman Bartók and by Stravinsky that leap from the speakers thanks to both the conductor’s vivid characterisation and to first-class Decca analogue sound. ‘Petrushka’ and ‘The Miraculous Mandarin’ (complete with chorus) were taped in the Sofiensaal in 1977 with ‘The Firebird’ following two years later. In the same 1979 sessions, Dohnányi and the VPO also recorded the pair of Portraits which the young Bartók wrote while in love with the violinist, Stefi Geyer: the solo part here is played with luscious tone by the native-Viennese violinist, Erich Binder then leader of both the VPO and the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra.
The Diaghilev trilogy is completed with Lorin Maazel’s 1974 VPO recording of ‘The Rite of Spring’, done in the grand manner and with the conductor’s typical attention to detail and fine balancing of inner parts.
 
曲目:
CD 1
IGOR STRAVINSKY
L’Oiseau de feu
The Firebird (1910 version)
Wiener Philharmoniker / Christoph von Dohnányi
 
Le Sacre du printemps
The Rite of Spring (1921 version)
Wiener Philharmoniker / Lorin Maazel
 
CD 2
Petrouchka
Petrushka (1947 version)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Horst Göbel, piano
Christoph von Dohnányi
 
BÉLA BARTÓK
Two Portraits, Sz. 37 (Op. 5)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Erich Binder, solo violin
Christoph von Dohnányi
 
The Miraculous Mandarin, Sz. 73 (Op. 19)
Chor der Wiener Staatsoper
Chorus master: Helmut Froschauer
Wiener Philharmoniker / Christoph von Dohnányi