羅密歐與茱麗葉/花之圓舞曲/夜曲 / 柴可夫斯基/葛令卡鋼琴作品改編版 / 蘇德賓 鋼琴
作曲家: Mikhail Glinka / Tchaikovsky
演出者: Yevgeny Sudbin piano / Bella Sudbin primo (tracks 2 & 12)
In his liner notes Yevgeny Sudbin remembers falling in love with Tchaikovsky's music when he was introduced to classical music On this album the pianist presents a collection of piano pieces and arrangements for piano, solo and four hands of orchestral works by the great Russian composer preceding it with a curtain raiser much loved by Tchaikovsky himself Mikhail Glinka's Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila The piano pieces selected by Sudbin spans some twenty years of Tchaikovsky 's career and takes in the ever popular Barcarolle (and Troika ( from The Seasons as well as three pieces from the composer 's last work for piano, the 18 Pieces Op 72 To these are added two waltzes from The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty here performed in four hand piano arrangements with Sudbin's 12 year old daughter Bella playing the 'promo' part.
The piece de resistance of this album, however, is Sudbin's arrangement of the famous overture fantasy Romeo and Juliet in which the composer, according to Sudbin, Sudbin,'lays bare his soul and where some of his most incredible music can be found' To the pianist, the rawness and vulnerability of human emotions' displayed in Tchaikovsky's music is almost unparalleled, something which his own performance here serve to confirm.
曲目:
Mikhail Glinka (1804-57)
1) Ruslan and Ludmila, overture (arr. Sudbin) 5'28
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-93)
2) Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker 6'38
for piano four hands (arr. Sudbin)
3) Dumka. Scene rustique Russe, Op. 59 8'30
4-5) from The Seasons, Op. 37 6'45
November (Troika) · June (Barcarolle)
6-7) Two Pieces, Op. 10 6'42
Nocturne · Humoresque
8) Nocturne, Op. 19 No. 4 3'25
9-11) from 18 Pieces, Op. 72 10'33
Tendres reproches · Valse à cinq temps · Chant elegiaque
12 ) Waltz from The Sleeping Beauty 3'48
for piano four hands (arr. Rachmaninov/Sudbin)
13-16 ) Romeo and Juliet, overture-fantasy 20'27
(arr. Sudbin)
TT: 73'58