指揮大師貝努姆 / 布拉姆斯第一號與第三號交響曲 (世界首度CD發行)

這是Eduard van Beinum最經典的布拉姆斯交響曲錄音.其中第三號交響曲為世界首度CD發行.
 
Eduard van Beinum made three recordings of Brahms’s First Symphony, all with the Concertgebouw Orchestra of which he had become principal conductor after World War II. This newly remastered Eloquence album presents his second thoughts on the symphony, as it were, from September 1951. Cut from the same cloth as his Beethoven symphonies, Van Beinum’s interpretation is notable for its dignified, classical approach.
There are two Van Beinum studio accounts of the Third Symphony: dating from 1946, this is the first of them, made by Decca in the conductor’s first sessions with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, just two months after his impromptu concert debut with them: substituting at the last minute for Albert Coates, Van Beinum happened to be on business in London but he did not have his tails with him and conducted the concert dressed in a brown suit. In the hands of Van Beinum, the Third is treated not as an emotional roller-coaster but as a powerful and finely crafted statement of Brahms’s respect for the composers who preceded him, not least Robert Schumann: in the symphony’s first movement, Brahms pays poignant tribute to the memory of the man who had nurtured his career at its outset by quoting from the latter’s ‘Rhenish’ Third Symphony.
Van Beinum expressed approval of the LPO’s autonomy of organisation and spirit: ‘this means that the members of the orchestra will, so to speak, be rapping each other over the knuckles if necessary. They feel responsible, which is very important’. The respect was evidently mutual because the conductor was soon invited back for regular concerts and indeed, Decca recordings and in 1949 he became the LPO’s chief conductor. The technical discipline and idiomatic flow of this Brahms Third pays its own testimony to the quickly achieved rapport between conductor and orchestra, later recalled by a former LPO violist: ‘Firstly, he won the full trust and cooperation of the players. This he did through his musical authority and his human understanding. To him, the musicians he worked with were not anonymous employees of a musical organisation but artists who more or less shared his own tastes and standards’.
 
曲目:
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68+
Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90*
 
Concertgebouworkest+
London Philharmonic Orchestra*
Eduard van Beinum
 
*FIRST CD RELEASE ON DECCA
 
Recording Producers: John Culshaw (Symphony No. 1); Victor Olof (Symphony No. 3)
Balance Engineer: Kenneth Wilkinson
Recording Locations: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London, UK, 20, 22–23 March 1946 (Symphony No. 3); Grote Zaal, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 3 September 1951 (Symphony No. 1)
Remastering Engineer: Chris Bernauer
Original Decca Releases: LXT 2675 (Symphony No. 1); (A)K1448–52, 78rpm (Symphony No. 3)