聖桑: 鋼琴協奏曲第三,第五號 路易．洛提 鋼琴 愛德華．加德納 指揮 BBC愛樂管弦樂團 Edward Gardner, Louis Lortie / Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos Nos 3 and 5, Rhapsodie d'Auvergne, Allegro appassionato

聖桑:第三, 第五號(埃及)鋼琴協奏曲 / 奧弗涅狂想曲
路易．洛提 鋼琴
愛德華．加德納 指揮 BBC愛樂管弦樂團

在2018年九月發行了備受好評的聖桑第一,第二和第四號鋼琴協奏曲後(CHAN20031), 路易斯．洛提再度與愛德華．加德納和BBC愛樂管弦樂團合作, 以錄製鋼琴協奏曲第三和第五號來完成他對聖桑鋼琴協奏曲作品的研究. 第三號協奏曲寫於1869年, 在萊比錫首演, 由作曲家親自演奏鋼琴, 但受到非常惡意的對待(甚至在走廊上引發打架). 這可能大多是歸因於作曲家在和音的實驗, 也可能是與非常成功的第二號協奏曲在風格上的差異所導致. 他最後的鋼琴協奏曲是第五號, 寫在第四號大約二十年之後, 大部份是他1885年冬天到1886年春天待在埃及時寫的. 聖桑寫這首是為了要在他於巴黎皮勒耶音樂廳(Salle Pleyel)首次表演的五十週年銀禧紀念音樂會上親自彈奏. 在第二樂章開頭的主題旋律是根據一首他聽到尼羅河上的船工唱的非洲努比亞人(Nubian)情歌. 因為這一段和稍後的印象派式的帶入青蛙與蟋蟀的聲音, 導致這首被冠上(埃及人)的別名. 洛提在專輯中間彈奏的是兩件寫於1884年較小型的鋼琴與管弦樂作品.奧弗涅狂想曲(Rhapsodie d'Auvergne)是一首印象派式的喚起法國中部壯麗的奧弗涅地區的回憶, 熱情的快板(Allegro appassionato)則是讓獨奏家和管弦樂團展現精湛狂熱的演奏.

Following the acclaimed release of Piano Concertos Nos 1, 2, and 4 in September 2018, Louis Lortie completes his survey of Saint-Saens's piano concertos with this recording of Concertos Nos 3 and 5, once again with Edward Gardner and the BBC Philharmonic. Composed in 1869, the Third Concerto received its premiere in Leipzig with the composer at the piano, and met an extremely hostile reception (it even incited punch-ups in the corridors!). Most probably due to the composer's harmonic experimentation, this might also have followed from the stylistic divergence from his (extremely successful) Second Concerto.  His final Piano Concerto, No. 5, written some twenty years after the Fourth, was composed largely during his stay in Egypt during the winter of 1885 and spring of 1886. SaintSaens wrote it to play himself at the jubilee concert celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of his performing debut in the Salle Pleyel. The second movement's initial theme is based on a Nubian love song that he had heard sung by boatmen on the Nile. This, and later the impressionistic evocation of the sound of frogs and crickets, led to the adoption of the nickname ‘Egyptian'. Lortie completes the album with two smaller works for piano and orchestra, both from 1884. The Rhapsodie d'Auvergne is an impressionistic evocation of the spectacular part of central France referenced in the title; the Allegro appassionato offers a virtuosic romp for soloist and orchestra alike.