指揮大師:柯林・戴維斯 / 皇家大會堂錄音全集 (原始封面限量精裝版)

這套18CD的特別企劃,收錄Colin Davis指揮皇家大會堂管弦樂團所發行的專輯.完整收錄協奏曲錄音與管弦樂曲錄音.協奏曲部分包含與葛洛米歐合作的貝多芬小提琴協奏曲,與阿卡多合作的德弗札克小提琴協奏曲,與席夫合作的德弗札克大提琴協奏曲.每張CD皆以精美印刷的原始封面收納.
 
A meeting of minds in Amsterdam: the complete Philips recordings of Sir Colin Davis and the Concertgebouworkest made in the orchestra’s acoustically optimal home and featuring classic accounts of Haydn, Berlioz, Dvořák and Stravinsky. Davis lends these readings rhythmic impetus and unassuming authority; the orchestra and audio engineers respond with sonic warmth and transparency. LIMITED EDITION.

Colin Davis made his debut with the Concertgebouw in 1966, and conductor and orchestra quickly established a mutual affinity. Interviewed by Niek Nelissen for a new appreciation of their legacy on record, a Concertgebouw violinist recalls his ‘typically British’ humour in rehearsal. Davis gave the musicians of ‘the orchestra a lot of freedom. He kept control in a good way, which made him popular with the orchestra.’

It took another eight years for Davis and the Concertgebouw to make their first records together, but they made up for lost time. The albums of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto (with Arthur Grumiaux) and the Symphonie fantastique of Berlioz were universally praised for their rhythmic impetus, and for the kind of unassuming authority that became a hallmark of Davis’s conducting. In both cases, the new recordings superseded earlier versions by the same artists (Davis’s LSO Berlioz, and Grumiaux’s previous Beethovens with the Concertgebouw) not least because of the warmth and the transparency of the Philips recordings, made in the orchestra’s acoustically optimal home.

There followed, over the next eight years, a string of artistic and commercial successes. The Concertgebouw had not recorded much Haydn before, but Davis harnessed their richness of tone and supple responses, and trained it on Haydn’s late symphonies with revelatory results. Even while period-instrument performers began to bring new perspectives to Haydn, Davis’s lively sympathy showed itself in the buoyant rhythms, the cultivated eighteenth-century phrasing and the exuberance which always belongs to his symphonies. Together, they recorded the complete ‘London’ symphonies followed by the ‘Paris’, and this set also features a bonus of No. 84, which Davis recorded with the English Chamber Orchestra for L’Oiseau-Lyre in 1960. This is the first time all of Davis’s Haydn symphony recordings with the Concertgebouworkest have been issued collectively.

Equally acclaimed was a Dvořák series featuring the last three symphonies, the concertos for violin and cello (with Salvatore Accardo and Heinrich Schiff) and the Symphonic Variations. Throughout his long career, Davis took particular pleasure in bringing out the nostalgic side as well as the Czech-accented rhythms of Dvořák’s music, just as his approach to Igor Stravinsky never lost its cutting edge, as displayed here in Concertgebouw recordings of the three early Diaghilev ballets.

While these recordings have rarely left the catalogue thanks to their popularity, hearing them together sheds new light on the remarkable idiomatic strength of the Concertgebouw/Davis partnership. Original couplings and covers have the ring of nostalgic authenticity, complemented by Niek Nelissen’s new essay and many archive photographs of conductor and orchestra.
 
曲目:
CD 1
HAYDN Symphonies Nos. 82°, 83° & 84*
*English Chamber Orchestra
°Concertgebouworkest / Colin Davis
 
CD 2
HAYDN Symphonies Nos. 86 & 98
Concertgebouworkest / Colin Davis
 
CD 3
HAYDN Symphonies Nos. 103 & 87
Concertgebouworkest / Colin Davis
 
CD 4
HAYDN Symphonies Nos. 88 & 99
Concertgebouworkest / Colin Davis
 
CD 5
HAYDN Symphonies Nos. 92 & 91
Concertgebouworkest / Colin Davis
 
CD 6
HAYDN Symphonies Nos. 93, 94, 96
Concertgebouworkest / Colin Davis
 
CD 7
HAYDN Symphonies Nos. 95 & 97
Concertgebouworkest / Colin Davis
 
CD 8
HAYDN Symphonies Nos. 100 & 104
Concertgebouworkest / Colin Davis
 
CD 9
HAYDN Symphonies Nos. 101 & 102
Concertgebouworkest / Colin Davis
 
CD 10
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto
Arthur Grumiaux; Concertgebouworkest / Colin Davis
 
CD 11
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique
Concertgebouworkest / Colin Davis
 
CD 12
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition; Night on Bald Mountain
Concertgebouworkest / Colin Davis
 
CD 13
DVOŘÁK Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8
Concertgebouworkest / Colin Davis
 
CD 14
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9
Concertgebouworkest / Colin Davis
 
CD 15
DVOŘÁK Violin Concerto; Romance
Salvatore Accardo; Concertgebouworkest / Colin Davis
 
CD 16
DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto; Silent Woods
Heinrich Schiff; Concertgebouworkest / Colin Davis
 
CD 17
STRAVINSKY L’Oiseau de feu
Concertgebouworkest / Colin Davis
 
CD 18
STRAVINSKY Le Sacre du printemps; Petrouchka
Concertgebouworkest / Colin Davis