維也納愛樂的極致縮影表現~維也納八重奏團 / DECCA 錄音大全集~包含首度CD發行珍貴錄音 (原始封面精美限量套裝)

維也納八重奏團於1947年由Willi Boskovsky與Alfred Boskovsky兄弟創立. Willi Boskovsky是維也納愛樂的首席與指揮.而成員也皆是從維也納愛樂而來.因此該樂團被譽為是維也納愛樂的縮影室內樂團.成立後的隔年,便與DECCA唱片公司簽屬專屬合約,直到1973年樂團不再演出為止.這套27CD的套裝完整收錄維也納八重奏團1948~1972的錄音全集.並包含從未CD發行過的錄音.以原始封面收納,極限量發行!
 
Decca signed an exclusive contract with the Wiener Oktett (Vienna Octet) in the summer of 1948 as a commercially motivated move: a sweetener to the deal that also poached the Philharmonic Orchestra from EMI. The ensemble had been formed only a year or so previously around the Boskovsky brothers, violinist Willi and clarinetist Alfred. Soon enough, audiences at home as well as in concert were enjoying the sound of a quintessentially Viennese ensemble, its members drawn from the ranks of the Philharmonic, in Classical-era music that could have been written for them, starting with the Septet by Beethoven and the Octet by Schubert.
 
The sweet, silvery tone of the Octet and the easy give-and-go of its phrasing established the Octet as the latest in a line of distinguished Viennese chamber ensembles, from the Rosé Quartet of Mahler’s era to the Barylli Quartet documented by the Westminster label. The Vienna Octet enjoyed the advantage of Decca’s top-of-the-range engineering, and they continued to set down classic interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert through the course of the 1950s, for the new LP format and then for stereo.
 
In 1956 their Decca albums began to reflect the diversity of their concert programmes, with the Octet written for them by the Belgian composer Marcel Poot. While they continued to enjoy free-spirited partnerships on record with the likes of Clifford Curzon and the Viennese pianist Walter Panhofer in Schubert’s ‘Trout’ Quintet, they also recorded lesser-known Romantics such as Spohr, Kreutzer and Berwald, and modern repertoire by Britten, Hindemith and Egon Wellesz.
 
By the time of the Vienna Octet’s final recording in November 1972, only two members of its original lineup were left, including clarinettist Alfred Boskovsky, but critics and record buyers had continued to recognise that, especially in the central repertoire, an unselfconscious authenticity set the ensemble apart from its rivals.
 
曲目:
CD 1
KREUTZER Grand Septet (rec. 1951)
BEETHOVEN Septet (rec. 1951)
 
CD 2
MENDELSSOHN Octet (rec. 1953)
SCHUBERT Octet (rec. 1948)
 
CD 3
MOZART Divertimento, K. 334 (rec. 1950)
Divertimento, K. 247 (rec. 1952)
 
CD 4
SCHUBERT Piano Quintet (rec. 1950)
Walter Panhofer
SPOHR Nonet (rec. 1952)
 
CD 5
BRAHMS
Clarinet Quintet (rec. 1953)
MOZART Clarinet Quintet (rec. 1953)
Alfred Boskovsky
 
CD 6
SCHUBERT Octet (rec. 1954)
 
CD 7
BEETHOVEN Septet (rec. 1954)
DVOŘÁK String Quartet No. 10
Boskovsky Quartet
 
CD 8
MOZART Divertimento, K. 287 (rec. 1955)
Divertimento, K. 113
 
CD 9
MOZART Piano Quintet
Clarinet Trio
Walter Panhofer
FIRST STEREO RELEASE ON CD
 
CD 10
SPOHR Octet (rec. 1955)
POOT Octet
 
CD 11
SCHUBERT Octet (rec. 1958)
 
CD 12
SCHUBERT Piano Quintet (rec. 1957)
Sir Clifford Curzon
BEETHOVEN Septet (rec. 1959)
 
CD 13
BEETHOVEN Piano Quintet
Walter Panhofer
SPOHR Octet (rec. 1959)
 
CD 14
MOZART Divertimento, K. 334 (rec. 1961)
Divertimento, K. 136/125a
 
CD 15
BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet (rec. 1961)
BAERMANN Adagio
Alfred Boskovsky
 
CD 16
MOZART Divertimento, K. 287 (rec. 1962)
M. HAYDN Divertimento in G major
 
CD 17
MOZART Clarinet Quintet (rec. 1963)
Alfred Boskovsky
Divertimento, K. 247 (rec. 1963)
 
CD 18
MOZART March, K. 290 & Divertimento, K. 205
Cassation, K. 99
 
CD 19
BRITTEN Sinfonietta
HINDEMITH Octet
 
CD 20
SPOHR Nonet (rec. 1966)
Double Quartet
 
CD 21
MENDELSSOHN Piano Sextet
BORODIN Piano Quintet
Walter Panhofer
 
CD 22
KREUTZER Grand Septet (rec. 1968)
BERWALD Grand Septet
 
CD 23
DVOŘÁK String Quintet, Op. 77
SPOHR Piano Quintet
Walter Panhofer
 
CD 24
BEETHOVEN String Quintet
Sextet
 
CD 25
DVOŘÁK String Sextet, B. 80
String Quintet, B. 180
 
CD 26
BADINGS Octet
WELLESZ Octet
 
CD 27
MENDELSSOHN Octet (rec. 1972)
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Piano Quintet
Walter Panhofer