英國指揮大師鮑特~DECCA錄音大全集 第二輯 巴洛克音樂與宗教音樂 (原始封面限量珍藏版)

Eloquence唱片公司企劃發行Sir Adrian Boult在DECCA的錄音大全集.共分三輯發行,分別是第一輯:英國音樂(ELO-4842204),第二輯:巴洛克音樂與宗教音樂(ELO-4842302),第三輯:古典時期作品與浪漫時期作品(ELO-4842284).總共45CD完整收錄.每份錄音皆以原始封面的封套收納.限量發行!內含多首從未以CD發行過的珍貴錄音.加上全部的錄音皆以最新技術重新從母帶轉錄,音質非常驚人!不可錯過的重量級企劃!
本發行為第二輯,收錄巴洛克音樂與宗教音樂
 
The second volume of Sir Adrian Boult’s Decca legacy brings together the conductor’s Messiah recordings of 1954 and 1960, plus Baroque and sacred music recitals from Kenneth McKellar, Kirsten Flagstad and Kathleen Ferrier. LIMITED EDITION.

While hardly a ‘period-instrument’ pioneer, Sir Adrian Boult had a much surer sense of authentic Handelian style than most of his contemporaries. Editions and performances of Handel’s masterpiece were still often cut and loaded with Romantic trappings in 1935 when Julian Herbage prepared the most complete version of the score yet made, with Handel’s original instrumentation. Boult began performing this version in 1942 and it was the obvious choice for a new, refreshing perspective on the piece when he came to record it for Decca in 1954.

Listeners and critics alike were struck by the energy of Boult’s direction, the purity and simplicity of the solo singing and the vivid Decca engineering. These qualities also distinguished the stereo remake, made with similarly slimmed-down forces and featuring Dame Joan Sutherland on the top line. She also contributed to the success of Boult’s Acis and Galatea from 1959, and the box is completed with a series of glorious vocal recitals, from the tenor Kenneth McKellar, the soprano Kirsten Flagstad and the contralto Kathleen Ferrier, all accompanied by Boult in Baroque repertoire with the sensitivity to line that made him so underrated and underused as an opera conductor.

Ferrier recorded this selection of Bach and Handel arias a year before her death in 1952, but eight years later Boult and the LPO returned to the studios to produce a stereo accompaniment for the album, which the Decca producer James Walker mixed with Ferrier’s part from 1952: an early and remarkably successful example of the technology later used to ‘update’ classic recordings of Caruso and Callas.
 
曲目:
CD 1
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685–1759)
Messiah, HWV 56
Edited by Julian Herbage
1–19   Part I
Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano
Norma Procter, contralto
George Maran, tenor
Owen Brannigan, bass-baritone
London Philharmonic Choir
Frederic Jackson, chorus master
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult
 
CD 2
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685–1759)
Messiah, HWV 56
Edited by Julian Herbage
1–21   Part II
Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano
Norma Procter, contralto
George Maran, tenor
Owen Brannigan, bass-baritone
London Philharmonic Choir
Frederic Jackson, chorus master
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult
 
CD 3
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685–1759)
Messiah, HWV 56
Edited by Julian Herbage
1–8     Part III
Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano
Norma Procter, contralto
George Maran, tenor
Owen Brannigan, bass-baritone
London Philharmonic Choir
Frederic Jackson, chorus master
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult
 
CD 4
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685–1759)
Messiah, HWV 56
1–17   Part I
Joan Sutherland, soprano
Grace Bumbry, alto
Kenneth McKellar, tenor
David Ward, bass
London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

CD 5
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685–1759)
Messiah, HWV 56
1–19   Part II
Joan Sutherland, soprano
Grace Bumbry, alto
Kenneth McKellar, tenor
David Ward, bass
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Sir Adrian Boult
 
CD 6
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685–1759)
Messiah, HWV 56
1–6     Part III
7          Recitative and Air (tenor): Thy rebuke hath broken his heart … Behold and see (alternative version)
Joan Sutherland, soprano
Grace Bumbry, alto
Kenneth McKellar, tenor
David Ward, bass
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Sir Adrian Boult
 

CD 7
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685–1759)
Acis and Galatea, HWV49a
1–12   Beginning
Joan Sutherland, soprano (Galatea)
Peter Pears, tenor (Acis)
Owen Brannigan, bass (Polyphemus)
David Galliver, tenor (Damon)
St. Anthony Singers
Philomusica of London
Sir Adrian Boult
 
CD 8
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685–1759)
Acis and Galatea, HWV49a
1–17   Conclusion
18        Air (Polyphemus): O ruddier than the cherry (alternative version)
Joan Sutherland, soprano (Galatea)
Peter Pears, tenor (Acis)
Owen Brannigan, bass (Polyphemus)
David Galliver, tenor (Damon)
St. Anthony Singers
Philomusica of London
Sir Adrian Boult
 
CD 9
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685–1759)
1          Frondi tenere … Ombra mai fu (Serse, HWV 40)
2          Love in her eyes sits playing (Acis and Galatea, HWV 49)
3          Silent Worship (Tolomeo, HWV 25)
4          Deeper, and deeper still (Jephtha, HWV 70)
5          Comfort ye, my people … Ev’ry valley shall be exalted (Messiah, HWV 56)
6          Where’er you walk (Semele, HWV 58)
7          Thanks to my brethren … How vain is man (Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63)
8          My Arms! Against this Gorgias … Sound an alarm (Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63)
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750)
9          Sheep may safely graze (Cantata BWV 208)
10        Air (Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068)
Kenneth McKellar, tenor
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Sir Adrian Boult
JEREMIAH CLARKE (c.1674–1707)
11        Trumpet Voluntary
Trumpeters of Kneller Hall Royal Military School of Music
London Symphony Orchestra
Kenneth Alwyn
12        God Save The Queen (arr. Britten)
London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Britten
 
CD 10
A RECITAL OF BACH & HANDEL ARIAS
1952 Recording
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750)
1          Qui sedes (Mass in B minor, BWV 232)
2          Grief for sin (St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244)
3          All is fulfilled (St. John Passion, BWV 245)
4          Agnus Dei (Mass in B minor, BWV 232)
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685–1759)
5          Return, O God of hosts (Samson, HWV 57)
6          O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion (Messiah, HWV 56)
7          Father of Heaven (Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63)
8          He was despised (Messiah, HWV 56)
Kathleen Ferrier, contralto
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult
 
CD 11
A RECITAL OF BACH AND HANDEL ARIAS
1960 Stereo Remake
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750)
1          Qui sedes (Mass in B minor, BWV 232)
2          Grief for sin (St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244)
3          All is fulfilled (St. John Passion, BWV 245)
4          Agnus Dei (Mass in B minor, BWV 232)
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685–1759)
5          Return, O God of hosts (Samson, HWV 57)
6          O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion (Messiah, HWV 56)
7          Father of Heaven (Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63)
8          He was despised (Messiah, HWV 56)
Kathleen Ferrier, contralto
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult
 
CD 12
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750)
1          Sheep may safely graze (Cantata, BWV 208)
2          Break in Grief (St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244)
3          Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Cantata, BWV 147)
HEINRICH STÖLZEL (1690–1749), attrib. J.S. BACH
4          If thou be near (‘Bist du bei mir’, BWV 508)
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685–1759)
5          Gods All-Powerful (Radamisto, HWV 12)
6          Art thou troubled? (Rodelinda, HWV 19)
7          Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me? (Semele, HWV 58)
8          He shall feed his flock (Messiah, HWV 56)
9          I know that my Redeemer liveth (Messiah, HWV 56)
Arr. SIEGFRIED OCHS (1858–1929), LESLIE WOODGATE (1900–1961)
10        Praise ye the Lord
Kirsten Flagstad, soprano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult
 
CD 13
GREAT SACRED SONGS
FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809–1847)
1          Hear my prayer … O for the wings of a dove, MWV B 49
2          Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets (St. Paul)
FRANZ GRUBER (1787–1863)
3          Silent Night, Holy Night (arr. Woodgate)
CHARLES GOUNOD (1818–1893)
4          Ah, turn me not away … O divine Redeemer

HUBERT PARRY (1848–1918)
5          Jerusalem
DMYTRO BORTNIANSKY (1751–1825)
6          Jubilate (arr. Woodgate)
JOHN WADE (1711–1786)
7          O Come All Ye Faithful (arr. Woodgate)
SAMUEL LIDDLE (1867–1951)
8          Abide with me
Kirsten Flagstad, soprano
Chorus
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult