馬勒: 第七號交響曲 凡斯卡 指揮 明尼蘇達管弦樂團 Osmo Vanska, Minnesota Orchestra / Mahler – Symphony No. 7

馬勒: 第七號交響曲
歐斯莫．凡斯卡 指揮
明尼蘇達管弦樂團

馬勒為了安排他的第七號交響曲首場演出, 宣稱’主要的特質是開朗的’, 是他最佳的作品. 他年輕的同事荀白克對此作品表示讚賞, 而且魏本(Webern)認為這是他最愛的馬勒交響曲. 無論如何, 這仍然是他全部交響曲中最少被演奏和最少被評論的, 並且被認為是比其他作品更神秘和比較不成功的. 造成這樣的原因之一是它所包含巨大的反差對比, 從第一樂章似乎是延續著前一首第六號(悲劇)交響曲的氣氛, 到結尾時的被指控是馬勒曾經描述如’在光天化日之下’的過度的勝利主義. 在這兩個極端之間, 他提供了至少兩個命名為’夜曲’的樂章, 中間夾入作曲家加入’陰暗’(schattenhaft)特質註記的詼諧曲(scherzo).

馬勒的名言曾說”一首交響曲必須像這個世界一樣, 必須包容萬物”. 第七號交響曲和任何其他馬勒交響曲一樣適用於該名言, 呈現豐富的情緒, 心情與色彩. 作曲家完整和富想想力的使用了管弦樂團擴大的管樂和打擊樂部分 - 包含牛鈴, 鞭子和鐘琴(glockenspiel) – 以及一隻曼陀鈴和一隻吉他, 在第四樂章的夜曲中加入如吟遊詩人(troubadour)般的面向. 所有這些細節在指揮歐斯莫．凡斯卡率領下的明尼蘇達管弦樂團真實呈現, 延續這一輪備受讚譽的表演和優質的錄音系列.

In an effort to arrange the first performance of his Seventh Symphony, Gustav Mahlerdeclared it to be his best work, ‘preponderantly cheerful in character’. His younger colleague Schoenberg expressed his admiration for the work, and Webern considered it his favourite Mahler symphony. Nevertheless, it remains the least performed and least written-about symphony of the entire cycle, and has come to be regarded as enigmatic and less successful than its siblings. One reason for this has been the huge –even for Mahler –contrasts that it encompasses: from a first movement which seems to continue the atmosphere of the previous symphony, the ‘Tragic’ Sixth, to a finale that has been accused of excessive triumphalism, and which Mahler himself once described as ‘broad daylight’. Between these two poles, he supplies no less than two movements entitled Nachtmusik(‘night music’) framing a scherzo to which the composer added the character marking schattenhaft(‘shadowy’).

Mahler famously said that ‘a symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything.’ The Seventh is as true to this dictum as any other of the symphonies, offering a wealth of emotions, moods and colours. The composer makes full and imaginative use of the orchestra’s extended wind and percussion sections –including cowbells, whips and glockenspiel –as well as a mandolin and a guitar, adding a troubadour-like aspect to the nightly serenade of the fourth movement. All of this is brought to life by the players of the Minnesota Orchestraunder OsmoVänskä, as they continue a cycle praised for the performances as well as the recorded sound.
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