馬勒: 第9號交響曲 / 歐斯莫．凡斯卡 指揮 / 明尼蘇達管弦樂團 (SACD)

馬勒: D大調第9號交響曲 / 歐斯莫.凡斯卡 指揮 / 明尼蘇達管弦樂團 (SACD)
作曲家: Mahler
指揮家: Osmo Vanska
樂團: Minnesota Orchestra

在他們最新一集的馬勒交響曲系列, 在歐斯莫.凡斯卡指揮下的明尼蘇達管弦樂團呈現出許多人認為是這位奧地利作曲家全部作品的巔峰之作 -《第九號交響曲》, 是他最後完成的交響曲。

阿爾班.貝爾格(Alan Berg)稱之為'馬勒所寫過的最輝煌的作品', 在一段出現形式、主題、質感和調性(tonality)令人驚訝的流暢性, 廣泛而且情感強烈的第一樂章之後, 第二樂章帶來歡樂和嬉戲, 並且似乎喚起一種都市般的史特勞斯式世界和民俗音樂文化. 相對於辛辣的諷刺與憤怒的第三樂章, 最後的第四樂章是一段神祕的慢板, 似乎用言語難以表達的溫柔回應著. 第九交響曲無論是規模還是情感範圍, 經常被認為是作曲家巨大的與世告別辭, 也可被解釋為是對她幾年前過世女兒的安魂曲, 對生命的短暫無常的默認, 或是一座維也納的紀念碑, 讓人想起逐漸消失的奧地利和波西米亞景觀, 對正在消失中的歐洲文化世界的一個致敬.

For the latest instalment in their Mahler series, the Minnesota Orchestra under the direction of Osmo Vanska presents what many consider to be the pinnacle of the Austrian composer's entire work, the Ninth Symphony, his last completed symphony.

After a vast and emotionally intense first movement that shows an astonishing fluidity of form, theme, texture and tonality, 'the most glorious thing Mahler has written' according to Alban Berg, the second movement brings joy and playfulness and seems to evoke both an urban Straussian world and folk music cultures. To the bitter irony and anger of the third movement the last movement, a mystical Adagio, seems to respond with ineffable tenderness. Often regarded as the composer's monumental – both in terms of scale and emotional scope – leave-taking of the world, the Ninth Symphony can also be understood as a requiem for his daughter who died a few years before, an acknowledgment of the transience of life, a memorial to Vienna, an evocation of fading Austrian and Bohemian landscapes, a homage to a vanishing European cultural world.

SACD曲目:

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 981'31
01. I. Andante comodo 28'08
02. II. Im Tempo eines gemachlichen Landlers1 6'45
03. III. Rondo-Burleske 12'31
04. IV. Adagio 24'07

Album total 81'32