Orchestre de Paris, Gennady Rozhdestvensky – Russian Orchestral Favourites (1972/2021)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 00:57:13 minutes | 2,31 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): EMI / Tower Records Japan – TDSA-195
ロジェストヴェンスキー生誕90年、没後3年企画。
唯一の共演盤となった1972年収録のパリ管との稀少盤を最上の音質で再現!
世界初SACD化。新規で本国のオリジナル・アナログ・マスターテープから192kHz/24bitで新たにデジタル化。新規解説付
2021年に生誕90年、没後3年を迎えたロジェストヴェンスキーが40歳の時に旧EMIレーベルに収録した、貴重なパリ管弦楽団とのセッション録音を最新復刻。颯爽とした指揮で当時のパリ管をコントロールする様は圧巻です。レベルの高い奏者達をロシア情緒ある演奏まで引き寄せる手腕もまさに一流。どの曲も生き生きとしており録音も優秀なため、高音質での再現に効果的な音源とも言えるでしょう。今回の発売のために本国のオリジナル・アナログ・マスターテープから192kHz/24bitでデジタル化したマスターを用い、SACD層、CD層別々にマスタリング。新規解説訳付。永久保存盤です。
ロジェストヴェンスキーは晩年特に日本でも親しまれ、亡くなる前年の読売日本交響楽団とのブルックナー5番の演奏は特に聴衆に大きな感銘を与えたことは記憶に新しいです。2021年は生誕90年、没後3年にあたります。残された音源はメロディア含めライヴも多いですが、当時西側のメジャーレーベルへの録音はそれほどありませんでした。若い時からその才能を認められ、早くから西側への客演を続けていた割には少ない印象です。その中でも、若干40歳の時にパリ管弦楽団と収録した今回の「ロシア音楽集」は例外と言えるでしょう。録音を行った1972年と言えば設立されて僅か5年、ちょうどカラヤンからショルティに代わる時期に当たります。フランスのオケらしく我が強い当時の奏者達をまとめ上げる力がロジェストヴェンスキーには十分備わっていたことが、この演奏を聴けば理解できると思います。天才と評価され、ソ連当局が自国に留まってもらうよう手配したと言われた当時のソビエト国立文化省交響楽団(1991-92:音楽監督)が再編成されるのも当然と言える活躍でした。ロシア以外のオケでロシア音楽を聴くならフランスのオケが相応しいというのも良くわかる位の出来かと思います。ここでは、驚く事に各奏者をコントロールするばかりか、ロシア的な音色まで表現させる等、この時期のパリ管ではなかなか他で聴くことができない音楽が再現されています。録音の良さも加わり、熱気溢れるこの盤は隠れた名盤と言えるのではないでしょうか。元々のオリジナル・アナログ・マスターテープの状態も良く、録音の素晴らしさも含め、機知に富んだ天才振りが発揮された節目に相応しいアルバムです。(1/2)
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Irina Muratova, Gennady Rozhdestvensky & Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra – Mussorgsky: The Nursery – Schnittke: In Memoriam (Live) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/176,4 kHz | Time – 40:02 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © JSC Firma Melodiya
The Nursery (Russian: Детская, Detskaya, literally Children’s [Room]) is a song cycle by Modest Mussorgsky set to his own lyrics, composed between 1868 and 1872. The cycle was published in two series. Only the first two songs survive of the second series. During the late ’60s and early ’70s, Schnittke’s experiments with form and compositional style produced several important works: the Violin Sonata “Quasi una sonata” (1968), the First Symphony (1969-72), the Suite in the Olden Style (1972), and the Requiem (1975). It was during this period that Schnittke composed In memoriam…, which he adapted from his Piano Quintet (1972-76).
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Gennady Rozhdestvensky – Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20, TH. 12 by Gennady Rozhdestvensky (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:28:14 minutes | 2,66 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording
Gennady Rozhdestvensky was born in Moscow. His parents were the noted conductor and pedagogue Nikolai Anosov and soprano Natalya Rozhdestvenskaya. His given name was Gennady Nikolayevich Anosov, but he adopted his mother’s maiden name in its masculine form for his professional career so as to avoid the appearance of nepotism. His younger brother, the painter P.N. Anosov, retained their father’s name.
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Gennady Rozhdestvensky – Howells: Missa Sabrinensis & Stabat Mater (2005/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:07:50 minutes | 514 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos
As a composer of British choral music, Herbert Howells is sometimes considered a follower of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford and Hubert Parry. Yet the expansively breathed counterpoint, lush orchestral sounds, and impressionistic harmonies in his large choral works, such as the Missa Sabrinensis and the Stabat Mater on this 2005 Chandos compilation, mark him more accurately as a fellow traveler with Ralph Vaughan Williams in the English pastoral movement. (Interestingly, though both men composed works for religious uses, Howells and Vaughan Williams seem to have been agnostics who viewed composing sacred music merely as an opportunity to write glorious works for choir). Recorded in 1994 and 1995 by Gennady Rozhdestvensky and the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, these mystical choral works sound symphonically spacious and almost cosmic in range and depth, quite far removed from any practical ecclesiastical functions. Indeed, the Missa Sabrinensis seems closer in a nearly pantheistic spirit to Vaughan Williams’ “Sea” Symphony in its poetic wafting, and the ecstatic singing of soprano Janice Watson, mezzo-soprano Della Jones, tenor Martyn Hill, and baritone Donald Maxwell contributes to the striking resemblance between the two works. Chandos offers remarkable reproduction in these recordings, gorgeous in the Missa Sabrinensis, and at times bracing in the Stabat Mater.
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Herbert von Karajan, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, The Philharmonia, Moscow Radio Symphony – Mily Balakirev: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 (2017/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:47 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Praga Digitals
A logical, albeit rare, association of symphonies by Balakirev, the composer of Islamey and Tamara He was the cornerstone of the Russian Mighty Five: César Cui, Aleksandr Borodin, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov and Mily Balakirev, who in the 1860s banded together in an attempt to create a truly national school of Russian music; free of the stifling influence of Italian opera, German lieder, and other western European forms. In this album two prestigious conductors do them justice. Symphony No.1 in C major is a romantic and well constructed work, performed by the early Karajan/Walter Legge team and the Philharmonia was certainly a crack ensemble at the time. The 2nd Symphony, which has with some justice been described as a paler copy of the 1st, brings an opening movement which under Rozhdestvensky s baton moves forward strongly, generating much Slavic energy.
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