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天堂降下的小確幸(橫跨300年弦樂四重奏名曲集)
曼德林四重奏
"每次下雨的時候, 落下來的是天堂降下來的零錢小確幸, 你知道每朵雲含有天堂降下的小確幸嗎? 你會發現你的財富落在城內每個地方, 要確實將你的雨傘翻過來接, 將小確幸換一包陽光和花朵...." (歌詞節錄自強尼.柏克Johnny Burke的'天堂降下的小確幸')
小寶物, 如1936年平克勞斯貝同名電影'天堂降下的小確幸'這首歌所承諾的, 被收集在曼德林四重奏最新出版的專輯中: 他們經常在音樂會中演奏最喜愛的, 單獨的樂章和安可曲, 還有通常不適合標準音樂會節目的幾首作品, 因此被放在此專輯結尾. 無論是古典或是非古典, 原創作品或適當的改編給弦樂四重奏: 所有的作品都是曼德林四重奏所喜愛的. 在花了幾個星期搜尋他們累積了超過三十年的音樂檔案後, 並從大量的作品中篩選出精采的部分, 現在曼德林四重奏呈現一份色彩繽紛跨世紀不同曲目類別的微型縮影綜合專輯. 其中包含很少被演奏的古典曲目作品, 例如莫札特的第一首弦樂四重奏作品的其中一個樂章; 曼德林四重奏喜愛演奏的安可曲, 例如蕭士塔高維契芭蕾舞(黃金年代)精華的稍快板(Allegretto); Werner Thomas-Mifune改編的經典探戈名曲(布宜諾斯艾利斯的咖啡店 Cafetín de Buenos Aires); 常在耳邊迴響的柴可夫斯基D大調弦樂四重奏中如歌的行板(Andante cantabile); 小提琴團員施密特(Sebastian Schmidt)在美國巡迴演出時因為遺失行李而在洛杉磯一家樂器行購買樂譜架時偶然發現到的聖路易斯藍調(St. Louis Blues)改編曲.
這張選輯(天堂降下的小確幸)結合高度多樣化的音樂領域形成一個豐富的音樂寶庫 – 同時呈現曼德林四重奏最內在的一面.
"Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven. Don't you know each cloud contains pennies from heaven? You'll find your fortune's fallin' all over the town. Be sure that your umbrella is upside down. Trade them fora package of sunshine and flowers..." (from: Lyrics to Pennies from Heaven by Johnny Burke)
Small treasures, as promised by the song Pennies from Heaven in the eponymous 1936 film with Bing Crosby, are assembled on the latest release from the Mandelring Quartett: favourites, individual movements and encores which the Mandelring Quartett regularly play in concert, but also works which don't fit into - or at the end of - standard concert programmes and are therefore presented on this album. Whether classical or non-classical, original works or felicitous arrangements for string quartet: all pieces are much loved by the ensemble. After spending weeks searching through their music archives, accumulated over more than thirty years, and sifting out the highlights from a huge body of works, the Mandelring Quartett now present a colourful mixture of miniatures from diverse genres across the centuries. They include rarely played compositions of the classical repertoire, such as a movement from the very first string quartet by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; pieces which the Mandelring Quartett like to play as encores, such as the Allegretto, which Dmitri Shostakovich distilled from his ballet The Golden Age; tango classics such as Cafetín de Buenos Aires, stylishly arranged by Werner Thomas-Mifune; earworm candidates such as the Andante cantabile from Pyotr Tchaikovsky's String Quartet in D major; trouvailles such as the adaptation of the St. Louis Blues, which the violinist Sebastian Schmidt discovered whilst on tour in the US when he visited a music shop in Los Angeles in order to buy a music stand because his suitcase had been lost.
This compilation combines "Pennies from Heaven" from highly diverse musical spheres into a musical treasure trove - and at the same time presents the Mandelring Quartett at their most personal.
FRITZ KREISLER
1. Miniature Viennese March (03:07)
String Quartet No. 3 in G Major, K. 156 (03:01)
2. I. Presto (03:01)
ARTHUR JOHNSTON
3. Pennies from Heaven (04:02)
ANTONIN DVORAK
4. Waltz in A Major, Op. 54 No. 1 (03:30)
MARIANO MORES
5. Cafetin de Buenos Aires (03:34)
FELICIEN DAVID
String Quartet in A Major (03:18)
6. Scherzo. Allegretto (03:18)
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
String Quartet No. 1 in G Major, K. 80 (04:08)
7. I. Adagio (04:08)
ALEXANDER BORODIN
String Quartet No. 2 in D Major (04:51)
8. II. Scherzo. Allegro (04:51)
ENRIQUE FRANCINI
9. La vi llegar (03:11)
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11 (06:24)
10. II. Andante cantabile (06:24)
LEROY ANDERSON
11. The Syncopated Clock (02:06)
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
The Golden Age, Op. 22 (02:10)
12. Polka (Allegretto) (02:10)
ANTONIN DVORAK
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96 'American' (06:09)
13. II. Lento (06:09)
STEVIE WONDER
14. Sir Duke (02:55)
JOSEPH HAYDN
String Quartet in C Major, Op. 33 No. 3 'The Bird' (02:58)
15. IV. Finale: Rondo – Presto (02:58)
JUAN CRISOSTOMO DE ARRIAGA
String Quartet No. 1 in D Minor (03:16)
16. III. Menuetto (03:16)
HECTOR VARELA
17. El 58 (02:55)
WILLIAM C. HANDY
18. St. Louis Blues (04:45) |
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