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英國偉大女高音詹妮弗·維維安 / 巴哈為Vauxhall Gardens露天演出所創作的曲子 (世界首度CD發行)
Jennifer Vyvyan / Mr. Bach at Vauxhall Gardens
Jennifer Vyvyan / Mr. Bach at Vauxhall Gardens
這張專輯是Eloquence一系列為了紀念英國偉大女高音Jennifer Vyvyan所發行的專輯.這是詹妮弗·維維安演唱巴哈:由兩張L’Oiseau-Lyre的黑膠錄音集結而成,多首錄音為世界首度CD發行. Jennifer Vyvyan的演唱功力確實驚人,樂迷可以透過Eloquence這一系列的發行欣賞到這位偉大女高音的精湛歌藝!
A pair of L’Oiseau-Lyre albums reissued together, including several items making their first appearance on Decca CD.
The soprano, Jennifer Vyvyan, was taught at the Royal Academy of Music in London by Roy Henderson, coach of Kathleen Ferrier. With Henderson’s help she formed a secure technique and quickly won acclaim for both operatic and oratorio roles in a wide variety of repertoire. Best known now as a singer favoured by Benjamin Britten, Vyvyan was also a leading figure in the revival of Baroque repertory: a celebrated interpreter of Purcell, Rameau, Bach and Handel who starred in landmark 1950s/60s reappraisals of the Handel operas at Sadlers Wells, Covent Garden and elsewhere.
Both the fluency and the brilliance of her voice are on display in songs by Johann Christian Bach and cantatas by Alessandro Scarlatti. J.C. Bach was writing for the open-air concerts at Vauxhall Gardens in London from which the original album and this reissue take their title. The Vauxhall songs are mellifluous, imbued with easy charm and written for accompaniment on keyboard: a part taken on this 1956 album by Thurston Dart whom as a scholar, conductor and virtuosic instrumentalist, played a still more significant role in the early music revival in postwar Britain.
Dart is the soloist in J.C. Bach’s F major keyboard concerto Op. 7 No. 2. The Italianate allure of the concerto is shared by six canzonettas in which he accompanies Vyvyan and Elsie Morison. In turn the canzonettas make a stylistic link back to a pair of pastoral cantatas by Scarlatti recorded the following year, full of disporting nymphs and lovelorn shepherds. ‘Beautifully matched […] in intelligence as well as vocal colour’ was Gramophone’s verdict (December 1957) on the pairing of Vyvyan and Morison in these miniature unstaged operas. To which one could add an impassioned intensity – not least in their penultimate duet ‘Ah’ fato beato!’ – and dramatic flair that confirm both sopranos as true stage animals.
This CD is one of five recordings released by Eloquence, celebrating the art of Jennifer Vyvyan. All-Decca recordings from the 1950s, many appearing for the first time on Decca CDs, they include ‘Songs of England’ (482 5045), the first recording of Purcell’s ‘The Fairy Queen’ (482 7449), arias by Mozart and Haydn (482 5049) and two litany settings by Mozart (482 5041).
曲目:
JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
Clavier Concerto in F major, Op. 7 No. 2*
Boyd Neel Orchestra
Thurston Dart, organ & director
Vauxhall Songs
Come, Colin*
Would you a female heart inspire*
Ah, why should love*
Lovely yet ungrateful swain*
Cease awhile*
Sei Canzonette a due, Op. 4
Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano
Elsie Morison, soprano (Sei Canzonette)
Boyd Neel Orchestra
Thurston Dart, harpsichord & director
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
Cantata: Clori e Lisa*
Cantata: Floro e Tirsi*
Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano
Elsie Morison, soprano
Desmond Dupré, viola da gamba
Thurston Dart, harpsichord
*FIRST INTERNATIONAL RELEASE ON DECCA CD
英国伟大女高音詹妮弗·维维安 / 巴哈为Vauxhall Gardens露天演出所创作的曲子 （世界首度CD发行）
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