Artist: Budapest Festival Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno, Iván Fischer
Title: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
Year Of Release: 2016
Label: Channel Classics Records B.V.
Genre: Classical
Quality: DSD64 (*dsf) 2.82MHz
Total Time: 58:02
Total Size: 1,36 GB
DSF无损音乐专辑简介:
Iván Fischer has made some first rate Tchaikovsky recordings. This isn’t one of them. At just about every point he seems uninterested, even embarrassed by the music’s raw intensity and expressive range. Granted, it’s entirely possible and legitimate to treat the work as something more than an essay in sweaty hysteria. Pletnev (in his first recording for Virgin Classics) and Markevitch found plenty of balletic elegance and grace in the music, all without compromising its more feverish thrills. But this version is just boring and undercharacterized.
Where to begin? The backwardly balanced and timid brass? Fischer’s oddly inapt rush through the great exordium in the first movement recapitulation–perhaps the single greatest climax in the entire symphony? The rigid and dull second movement; the cautious scherzo? Fischer takes great pains over string sonority. The lyrical moments in the opening movement and finale are lovely, but it’s simply not enough to make the complete package worth a second glance.
Nor does the coupling, an unspectacular version of the Polovtsian Dances with their silly choral parts reinstated, make this release any more desirable. Even Channel Classics’ sonics, usually so reliable, seem uncharacteristically diffuse. Pass on this one.