鋼琴大師:費庫斯尼錄音大全集 / 包含世界首度曝光的珍貴錄音 (原始封面精美收納限量珍藏版)

這是楊納傑克鋼琴音樂的代言人Rudolf Firkušný的錄音全集,Eloquence唱片以這套精心企畫的發行來紀念一代大師逝世三十周年紀念.蒐集了所有大師的錄音室錄音,包括DG,DECCA,西敏寺錄音都無一遺漏.多首錄音是世界首度CD發行,更有當年黑膠時期也沒發行過的舒伯特與莫札特錄音.珍貴錄音首度從檔案室取出,珍貴非凡!
 
From a landmark Janáček album to a previously unpublished Schubert/Mozart recording, this collection presents the Deutsche Grammophon, British and American Decca, and Westminster legacy of Rudolf Firkušný (1912–1994), acclaimed by Stereo Review as ‘the outstanding champion of Czech piano music on the international circuit’.
 
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30 years after his death (on 19 July 1994), there are still works in the piano repertoire that have become indelibly associated with the artistry of Rudolf Firkušný: most of all, the piano works of Leoš Janáček, whom Firkušný knew as a young student in Prague. The pianist went on to make his US debut in 1941, when he played not a repertoire warhorse but the neglected Piano Concerto by Dvořák, under Sir Thomas Beecham. Firkušný made six recordings of the Concerto across the course of a long career; the Westminster version newly remastered here was made in 1963 and conducted by Lázsló Somogyi, and has often since been placed at the head of the work’s discography along with the version recorded Sviatoslav Richter and Carlos Kleiber.
 
Firkušný’s 1960 version of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition also attracted favourable comparison with Richter for its plain-spoken virtuosity. It seemed to listeners at the time that the pianist’s patrician technique and finely-wrought musicality had been rounded out by a new passion to his playing in what became the middle of his career. Although record labels tended to pigeonhole Firkušný in Czech repertoire, his sympathies were wide, as the span of this set suggests. His 1973 recording of Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto on Decca (with the New Philharmonia under Uri Segal) has been forgotten, though reviewers at the time thought it was finer than the more familiar Capitol recording with William Steinberg.
 
A 1974 album of sonatas further underlines his Beethovenian credentials, though he had already established them on Decca in a partnership with the violinist Erica Morini which yielded four albums. As well as four Beethoven sonatas, they made enduringly elegant recordings of sonatas by Mozart, Brahms and Franck. By ranging in this way across Firkušný’s remarkably sensitive reflexes as a concerto, chamber and solo pianist, this Eloquence set demonstrates the truth of Tully Potter's verdict: ‘Of all the notable 20th-century Czech pianists, Firkušný was surely the greatest’.
 
Perhaps most valuable of all is the inclusion of previously unreleased recordings of Mozart’s Dupont Variations and Schubert’s final Piano Sonata in B flat D.960. These were made in January 1963 for the American branch of Decca, but then shelved for reasons unknown. They present Firkušný at the peak of his powers, his phrasing typically natural and unostentatious. An essay by Jed Distler surveys Firkušný’s life and career in the context of the albums newly remastered within this Original Jackets collection.
 
曲目:
CD 1
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition
RAVEL Jeux d’eau; Alborada del gracioso; La Vallée des cloches
 
CD 2
BRAHMS Cello Sonatas
Pierre Fournier
 
CD 3
JANÁČEK Tema con variazioni; On the Overgrown Path; Reminiscence
 
CD 4
JANÁČEK Piano Sonata ‘1.X.1905’; In the Mists; Concertino; Capriccio
Rafael Kubelík
 
CD 5
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5
Uri Segal
FIRST INTERNATIONAL RELEASE ON CD
 
CD 6
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos. 14, 8 & 21
FIRST INTERNATIONAL RELEASE ON CD
 
CD 7
DVOŘÁK Piano Concerto
László Somogyi
 
CD 8
FRANCK Violin Sonata
MOZART Violin Sonata, K. 481
Erica Morini
 
CD 9
MOZART Violin Sonata, K. 296
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 3
Erica Morini
 
CD 10
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos. 5 & 7
Erica Morini
 
CD 11
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 8
BRAHMS Violin Sonata No. 3
Erica Morini
 
CD 12
MOZART Duport Variations, K. 573
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D.960
PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED RECORDINGS