琉森音樂節歷史名演 卡拉揚 - 琉森音樂節初期 米爾斯坦 小提琴 卡薩德修 鋼琴 Herbert von Karajan - The Early Lucerne Years

(3CD)琉森音樂節歷史名演 卡拉揚 - 琉森音樂節初期

納森.米爾斯坦 小提琴

蓋札.安達, 羅伯.卡薩德修, 克拉拉.哈絲姬兒 鋼琴

卡拉揚 指揮

瑞士節慶管弦樂團

 

此系列有史以來第一次推出卡拉揚之前從未發行過的琉森音樂節早期實況錄音, 錄製在他重新發展自己事業的十年間. 此片包含傳奇獨奏家如克拉拉.哈絲姬兒, 蓋札.安達, 羅伯.卡薩德修和納森.米爾斯坦.

 

在他的演奏會被禁止和一系列的去納粹化事件之後, 琉森音樂節是第一個在奧地利之外聘用卡拉揚的主辦單位, 讓他得以重新回到世界舞台. 卡拉揚之後坦承:"我會永遠心存感激". 在1948到1988的幾乎四十年之間, 他在琉森音樂節留下他的標誌. 他和柏林愛樂(從1958年起)每年的演出讓他獲得崇敬的地位. 但是如這張所記錄的之前的十年間,  卡拉揚在琉森得得到聽眾和評論家之類的人士熱情支持, 並迅速崛起成為和福特萬格勒並駕齊驅的代表性藝術界名流: 他指揮過愛樂管弦樂團和維也納交響樂團, 但最重要的是與被他高度評價的瑞士節慶管弦樂團一共演奏過九場的音樂會.

 

For the first time, this edition makes available Herbert von Karajan's previously unreleased early live recordings from the Lucerne Festival, made in a decade during which Karajan was rebuilding his career. Included are legendary soloists such as Clara Haskil and Geza Anda, Robert Casadesus and Nathan Milstein.

 

The Internationale Musikfestwochen Luzern (today's Lucerne Festival) was the first promoter outside Austria to engage Herbert von Karajan after his performance ban and denazification proceedings, thus enabling him to return to international podiums. "I will always be indebted", Karajan later confessed. For almost four decades, from 1948 to 1988, he was to make his mark on Lucerne Festival. His annual appearances with the Berlin Philharmonic (from 1958) enjoyed cult status. But already in the decade before, as documented by this edition, Karajan enthused audiences and critics alike in Lucerne and quickly rose to become the defining artistic personality alongside Wilhelm Furtwangler: he conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, but above all the Swiss Festival Orchestra, whom he held in high esteem and with whom he performed a total of nine concerts.

 

The surviving Lucerne live recordings range from Bach's C major Concerto for two Keyboards, BWV1061 (with Clara Haskil and Geza Anda), to Arthur Honegger's Symphonie liturgique. The exciting, rhythmically tight interpretations show Karajan to be an extremely form-conscious, textually faithful conductor of great expressive power. He inspires his orchestras to deliver top performances, whilst also acting as a sensitive yet extremely present accompanist, as for instance in Brahms' Violin Concerto with Nathan Milstein, or in Mozart's dramatic C minor Concerto, K. 491, with Robert Casadesus.

 

As a digital bonus, the edition also includes Bach's Mass in B minor, which Karajan celebrated at the end of the 1951 festival with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Singverein and a top-class quartet of soloists (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Elsa Cavelti, Ernst Haefliger and Hans Braun): a fascinating sonic document thanks to Karajan's very personal approach, even if stylistically it feels far removed.

 

The sound of the live recordings on the 3-CD box set has been carefully restored. The 62-page booklet in three languages contains essays by Wolfgang Rathert and Erich Singer on Karajan's career re-launch during the post-war years and on his special relationship with Lucerne Festival. It also contains numerous previously unpublished photos.