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皮爾斯100年獻禮【6CDs】
Peter Pears – Anniversary tribute
皮爾斯, 男高音 / 布烈頓, 鋼琴、指揮
Peter Pears, tenor / Benjamin Britten piano / conductor
Noel Mewton-Wood piano* / Joan Dickson cello
簡介:
皮爾斯無疑是英國二十世紀最偉大的男高音,他不僅激發了同代英國作曲家布烈頓的創作靈感,為他量身訂作出許多經典之作,包括歌劇「彼得格林」、「比利小子」、「魂斷威尼斯」、「法國號、男高音與弦樂團的小夜曲」以及「安魂曲」等,密切的合作,更培養出兩位音樂家間的絕佳默契與情誼。
2010適逢皮爾斯誕生100週年,Decca唱片特別以此輯作為紀念這位偉大演唱家的獻禮,當中收錄其演唱伊麗莎白時期的歌曲、巴洛克時期的巴哈、以至於浪漫時期的舒伯特藝術歌曲、白遼士等,及許多當代的珠機之作,寬廣的曲目讓人為之驚嘆。皮爾斯的聲音表情豐富,音樂詮釋充滿各種難以想像之可能,非常值得樂迷再次深入探討。
在本錄音中最值得一聽的,當然就是布烈頓為其所寫,1944年在布烈頓指揮下,由英國天才法國號演奏家布萊恩吹奏法國號,皮爾斯演唱男高音的「法國號、男高音與弦樂團的小夜曲」,不僅詮釋方向正統,三人的合作也默契十足,然而這個絕無僅有的組合,在布萊恩於1957年因一場車禍而喪生之後亦成為絕響。
皮爾斯所演唱的連篇歌曲如「美麗的磨坊少女」或「冬之旅」,嗓音中特別帶有獨特的詩意,令人回味再三,搭配布烈頓的伴奏,也讓鋼琴家傅聰盛讚,這是他聽過最好的舒伯特冬之旅。
曲目:
CD 1
Benjamin Britten (1950 - 1995)
[1]-[8] Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, op.31
[9]-[15] Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, op.22
The Turn of the Screw, op.54 - Act 1: Variation VII • Scene 8 At Night
[16] Miles!
The Rape of Lucretia, op.37 - Act 1 scene 1
[17] Rome is now ruled by the Etruscan upstart
[18] Canticle II Abraham and Isaac, op.51
Peter Grimes, op.33 - Act 1 scene 2
[19] Now the Great Bear and Pleiades…
[20] Old Joe has gone fishing…
[21] The bridge is down, we half swam over
CD 2
War Requiem, op.66 - Dies irae
[1] Move him into the sun
[2]-[7] Six Hölderlin Fragments, op.61
Billy Budd, op.50 - Act 2 Epilogue
[8] We committed his body to the deep
[9]-[17] The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op.35
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op.64 - Act 1
[18] What now, my love?
Albert Herring, op.39 - Act 2 scene 2
[19] Albert the Good!
Owen Wingrave, op.85 - Act 1 scene 7
[20] May God bless the Queen
[21] Canticle V The Death of St Narcissus, op.89
Osian Ellis harp
Death in Venice, op.88 - Act 1 scene 7
[22] The boy, Tadzio, shall inspire me
CD 3
Folksongs
[1] The foggy, foggy dew
[2] A brisk young widow
[3] O Waly, Waly
[4] Le roi s’en va-t’en chasse
[5] The plough boy
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Acis and Galatea
[6] Lo! Here my love!…
[7] Love in her eyes sits playing
Lute songs
[8] Dowland: I saw my lady weep
[9] Rosseter: What then is love but mourning
[10] Pilkington:Rest, sweet nymphs
[11] Morley: It was a lover and his lass
[12] Dowland:In darkness let me dwell
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
The Fairy Queen
Part 1 – Oberon’s Birthday
[13] When a cruel long winter
Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
Matthäus-Passion, SWV 479
[14] Jesus aber stund für dem Landpflegers
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Weihnachts-Oratorium, BWV 248
[15] Nr. 41 Ich will nur dir zu Ehren leben
Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 - Part Two
[16] Nr. 62 Rezitativ: Da nahmen die Kriegsknechte des Landplegers / Nr. 63 Choral: O Haupt
voll Blut und Wunden / Nr. 64 Rezitativ: Und da sie ihn verspottet hatten
Mass in B minor, BWV 232
[17] Benedictus
St John Passion, BWV 245 - Part Two
[18] No.22 Recitative: Then they lead Jesus from Calaphas to the judgement hall
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
The Dream of Gerontius, op.38 - Part I
[19] Sanctis, fortis, Sanctus Deus
CD 4
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
[1] Ganymed, D544 - first ever release
Winterreise, D911
[2] Gute Nacht
[3] Der Lindenbaum
[4] Frühlingstraum
[5] Der Leiermann
Die schöne Müllerin, D795
[6] Das Wandern
[7] Der Neugierige
[8] Der Jäger
[9] Die liebe Farbe
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Dichterliebe, op.48
[10] Im wunderschönen Monat Mai
[11] Ich grolle nicht
[12] Ich hab’ im Traum geweinet
[13] Die alten bösen Lieder
Szenen aus Goethes Faust
Zweite Abteilung
Nr. 4 Ariel, Sonnenaufgang
[14] Die ihr dies Haupt umschwebt im luft’gen
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
L’Enfance du Christ: Deuxième partie - La Fuite en Egypte
[15] Les pèlerins étant venus
Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994)
[16] Paroles tissées
CD 5
all first international CD releases exceptº
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
[1]-[6] On Wenlock Edge
Michael Tippett (1905-1998)
[7]-[11] Boyhood’s Endº
[12]-[16] The Heart’s Assuranceº
Recorded: Hollymount Studios, Hampstead 1952
Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
[17] To Daffodils
E. J. Moeran (1894-1950)
[18] The Merry Month of May
Bernard van Dieren (1894-1936)
[19] Dream Pedlary
[20]
Tippett
[21]-[23] Songs for Arielº
Alan Bush (1900-1995)
[24]-[27]Voices of the Prophets, op.41
CD 6
Peter Warlock (1894-1930)
[1] Piggesnie
[2] Along the Stream
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
[3] Bold William Taylor
William Busch (1901-1945)
[4] The Echoing Green
[5] The Shepherd
[6] If thou wilt ease thine heart
[7] Come, o Come, my life’s delight
John Ireland (1879-1962)
[8]-[13] The Land of Lost Content
[14] The Trellis
Frank Bridge (1879-1941)
[15] ‘Tis but a week
[16] Goldenhair
[17] When you are old
[18] So perverse
[19] Journey’s End
Richard Rodney Bennett (born 1936)
[20] Tom O’Bedlams Song**
Ireland
[21] Love and Friendship
[22] Friendship in Misfortune
[23] The One Hope
Priaulx Rainier (1903-1986)
[24]-[26] Cycle for Declamation