燦爛的俄羅斯管絃樂 水藍 指揮 新加坡交響樂團 Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui / Russian Spectacular

燦爛的俄羅斯管絃樂(展覽會之畫 / 荒山之夜 / 東方幻想曲《伊斯拉美》/ 韃靼人舞曲) 

水藍 指揮

新加坡交響樂團

 

這片管絃樂範例作品包含了俄國五人組(the Mighty Handful or The Mighty Five)作曲家其中四位的作品, 他們在十九世紀下半葉合力創造一個鮮明的民族風格. 此錄音作品說明了他們努力奮鬥的不同面向 – 不只是他們使用音樂的方法, 還有他們所用的主題. 東方主義是這組人音樂的典型特徵, 例如在巴拉基列夫的(伊斯拉美)使用了高加索山區的題材 – 和鮑羅定的(韃靼人舞曲)描述在十二世紀入侵俄羅斯土地的東方游牧民族的飲酒狂歡作樂.

 

這組中最獨立個人化的是穆索斯基, 具有強烈與栩栩如生驚人的想像力的音樂語言. 他著名的(展覽會之畫)編寫於1874年, 是獻給一位剛過世不久的藝術家朋友, 特地的加入童話人物巫婆芭芭雅嘎(Baba Yaga)和基輔之門等俄羅斯元素. 此曲原本是寫給鋼琴演奏, 在此片演奏的是拉威爾於1922年編排配器的版本. 此片開頭的(荒山之夜)也是穆索斯基的作品, 以舊式筆法描繪女巫妖魔的集會(Witch's Sabbath), 後來被林姆斯基-高沙可夫在穆索斯基過世後重新編排配器. 在此片聽到的就是這個版本, 加入了更多華麗的管絃樂格調和嚴謹的規劃, 由水藍指揮新加坡交響樂團演奏.

 

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Lan Shui

Singapore Symphony Chorus & Youth Choir (in Polovtsian Dances)

 

This disc of orchestral showpieces features four of the five members of the Mighty Handful, a group of Russian composers who, during the second half of the 19th century, collaborated to create a distinct national style. The recorded works illustrate different aspects of their endeavours –both in terms of the musical means they employ and their subject matter. Orientalism is one of the typical features of the music of the group, as witness Balakirev's Islamey–employing material from the Caucasus Mountains –and Borodin's Polovtsian Dances, describing the revels of a nomadic eastern tribe during a 12th-century raid into the Russian lands.

 

The most individual of the group was Modest Mussorgsky, with a musical language both powerful and startlingly vivid in imagination. His celebrated Pictures from an Exhibition was composed in 1874 as a tribute to a recently deceased artist friend, and takes in such specifically Russian elements as the fairy-tale witch Baba Yaga and the Great Gate of Kiev. Originally written for the piano it is here performed in the 1922 orchestration by Maurice Ravel. Also by Mussorgsky, the opening Night on the Bare Mountain paints a witch's Sabbath in bold brushstrokes, and was re-orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakovafter the composer's death. It is his version, with more sumptuous orchestral textures and a tighter formal plan that is heard here, performed by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Lan Shui.