一个来自天然的演奏台——美国黄石公园夏季音乐节的现场录音。
位于世界八大奇之一的美国黄石国家公园北部的蒂皮特高地艺术中心内所有“场馆”都是自然环境里的小木屋或根本就是一块巨石下搭起的舞台,而中心每年举办的夏季音乐节更是乐坛的年度盛事。
继《蒂皮特高地作品2016:拱顶(Tippet Rise OPUS 2016: Domo)》的音乐会现场实况得到乐迷非常正面的反应,2017年度的音乐会的专辑在不少人期待下应时出版,而今次的主题是《蒂皮特高地作品2017:白日梦(Tippet Rise OPUS 2017: Daydreams)》,虽然予人感觉有点玩世与虚幻,但演出的曲目皆是作曲家对蕴藏于他们心中人生经历的片段或冀望以组合的音符抒发出来,是有的放矢,并非无病呻吟。
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这张唱片的录音非常棒,大家不妨下来一听。。
Tippet Rise Opus 2017 is the second compilation album to emerge from the summer music season at Montana’s Tippet Rise Arts Center, which features performance spaces of acoustic perfection amidst a sculpture-laden terrain of awe-inspiring beauty, nestled against a backdrop of the Beartooth Mountains near Yellowstone National Park. From the Pentatone Oxingale Series, Tippet Rise OPUS 2017 inhabits the sphere of Daydreams, a sculpture by Patrick Dougherty where natural saplings organically emerge out of an eroding schoolhouse. In this whimsical, imaginary world, composers open a visionary portal to the past and future. In the jazz-infused First Club Date, a world premiere by Aaron Jay Kernis and a Tippet Rise commission, cellist Matt Haimovitz and pianist Andrea Lam illuminate the musical playground of a boy on the cusp of manhood. The new work is dedicated to Haimovitz and the composer’s cellist-son Jonah, with double-entendre movement titles like “Puppy Love” and “Matt’s Monkish Machinations.” Violinist Caroline Goulding and pianist David Fung embody the youthful spirit of George Enescu’s Impressions from Childhood, while a pastoral mood reigns in Eugène Bozza’s Image for solo flute, performed by Jessica Sindell. An epic expansiveness saturates Red Arc / Blue Veil by John Luther Adams, featuring electronics and a wide array of sounds from pianist Vicky Chow and percussionist Doug Perkins. Opening the album is Jeffrey Kahane’s hopeful America the Beautiful, performed on piano by the composer himself, while works by Chopin and Bach, performed by pianists Yevgeny Sudbin and Anne-Marie McDermott, anchor the program with their sheer beauty and virtuosity.
Samuel A. Ward (1848-1903) / Jeffrey Kahane (1956- ):
1. America the Beautiful
Aaron Jay Kernis (1960- ): First Club Date:
2. I. Prelude to a Pizz.
3. II. Puppy Love
4. III. Matt's Monkish Machinations
5. IV. Elevating the Standard
6. V. Jonah's Jive Jump
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): English Suite No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 807:
7. I. Prélude
Eugène Bozza (1905-1991):
8. Image, Op. 38
George Enescu (1881-1955): Impressions d'enfance, Op. 28:
9. No. 1, Ménétrier
10. No. 2, Vieux mendiant
11. No. 3, Ruisselet au fond du jardin
12. No. 4, L'oiseau au cage et le coucou au mur
13. No. 5, Chanson pour bercer
14. No. 6, Grillon
15. No. 7, Lune à travers les vitres
16. No. 8, Vent dans la cheminée
17. No. 9, Tempête au dehors, dans la nuit
18. No. 10, Lever de soleil
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) / Yevgeny Sudbin (1980- ):
19. Variations on the Minute Waltz
John Luther Adams (1953- ):
20. Red Arc / Blue Veil