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巴哈清唱劇的權威~弗里茨·萊曼的未完成遺作 / 巴哈聖誕清唱劇 (世界首度CD發行)
Bach: Christmas Oratorio / Fritz Lehmann (3CD)
Bach: Christmas Oratorio / Fritz Lehmann (3CD)
Fritz Lehmann在演奏巴哈清唱劇上的成就是他的時代的權威.他所演出的版本被視為該曲目的標準.他在DG曾留下的多首巴哈清唱劇錄音更是被奉為圭臬般的存在(以ELO-4827642發行).而這份巴哈聖誕節清唱劇全曲錄音是大師最後錄製的一曲巴哈清唱劇.可惜的是尚未完成錄音便撒手人寰,後來由指揮家Günther Arndt補遺完成.這份錄音由Fritz Lehmann指揮的前半部同樣也被譽為決定性重要名盤.合作的樂團同樣為柏林愛樂.必收藏的一套經典!
The last recording by a pioneer of the Bach revival on record, newly remastered and issued internationally on CD for the first time. New editorial notes by Bach specialist, Nicholas Anderson, giving context and authoritative detail on the Christmas Oratorio, the career of Fritz Lehmann and this recording project.
At Fritz Lehmann’s untimely death on 20 March 1956, during a traditional Good Friday performance of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in Munich, his recording of the Christmas Oratorio was left incomplete. He had recorded the first four cantatas in the first week of August the previous year with many of the same performers who had brought such distinction to his previous recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, including a series of Bach cantatas and Brahms’s German Requiem.
No generation has a monopoly on truth and Lehmann’s Bach was ‘authentic’ for the time: a slimmed-down Berlin Philharmonic incorporated modern copies of antique instruments such as the oboe da caccia. They accompanied the finely honed, professionally trained voices of the Berlin Motet Choir which had been founded as recently as 1950 by Gunther Arndt. Deutsche Grammophon’s Archiv division quickly made good the incomplete project by assigning Arndt the task of recording the last two cantatas which he did in June and September 1956.
With few rivals in the catalogue, the complete recording was received warmly by the critical press when it was issued later the same year. Particular praise went to Lehmann’s outstanding team of soloists: especially the tenor Evangelist of Helmut Krebs who was a distinguished presence in many Bach recordings of the 1950s and 60s. The recording’s producer, Dr. Fred Hamel, paid this tribute to Lehmann: ‘We are left with his recordings, and even if they […] represent only a fragment of his artistic range, they ensure that his musical qualities will become more widely known. They are the testimonies of a conductor who did not follow prescribed paths but his own law. In accordance with that law, he was simultaneously a dynamic force and an admonitory conscience in German musical life. That is a measure of the gap opened up by his premature death. It will not be easily closed.’
曲目:
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Weihnachtsoratorium, BWV 248
Christmas Oratorio
Helmut Krebs, tenor
Gunthild Weber, soprano l
Sieglinde Wagner, contralto
Heinz Rehfuss, bass
Berliner Motettenchor
RIAS Kammerchor
Berliner Philharmoniker
Fritz Lehmann, conductor (Parts I–IV)
Günther Arndt, conductor (Parts V–VI)
巴哈清唱剧的权威~弗里茨·莱曼的未完成遗作 / 巴哈圣诞清唱剧 （世界首度CD发行）
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