2016年2月14日 星期日

葛羅夫 爵士 指揮 丹尼爾 . 瓊斯 : 交響曲 NO. 4 ( 回憶 狄倫湯瑪斯 ) ,NO. 7 / Daniel Jones : Symphony No. 4 (In Memory Of Dylan Thomas),NO. 7 - conducted by Sir Charles Groves

               ( EMI / Welsh Arts Council Oriel Records  ORM 1002,1979年 LP ) rec. 18-19 April 1972, Studio No. 1 Abbey Road, London 
               (  Producer – Christopher Bishop,Engineer – Stuart Eltham )



導演 Christopher Nolan 的電影 Interstellar ( 星際效應 ) 中,有首詩多次在劇中穿場。尤其是 Michael Caine 飾演的布蘭德教授一唸再唸的這詩 Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night ( 別溫馴地步入美好的夜 ) 表明了人類面臨環境崩壞時應勇敢應對不得荀安的心態令人動容。此詩就是英國早逝詩人 Dylan Thomas 最著名的一首詩。最近 BBC 為了記念Daniel Jones : Symphony No. 4 (In Memory Of Dylan Thomas)  創作 60 週年誌於 30 Oct 2014 由指揮家 Grant Llewellyn 進行公演。


本唱片即是他的朋友 Daniel Jones 為回憶他所寫的 Symphony No. 4 (In Memory Of Dylan Thomas) 這録音原先是 EMI ( ADS 2855 )發行,最近 CD 則轉為 LYRITA  公司 ( SRCD.329 ),是目前可尋得的孤本。以演奏而言,典型英式風格的交響曲是頗值得一聽。但别太寄於厚望,還是没有那種一曲入魂的旋律。説明白點,您大概短期間不會有再聽的慾望。而 NO. 7 就成熟多了是更好的作品。

錄音方面是由 EMI 的王牌 (  Producer – Christopher Bishop,Engineer – Stuart Eltham ),他們和指揮 Sir Charles Groves 制作英國作品和西貝流士一系列錄音 是 TAS 的常勝軍。素質當然好



LP-A
Symphony No. 4 (In Memory Of Dylan Thomas)
A1 1st Movement: Risoluto
A2 2nd Movement: Allegro Capriccioso
A3 3rd Movement: Adagio - Moderato - Adagio
LP-B
Symphony No. 7
B1 1st Movement: Risoluto
B2 2nd Movement: Espressivo
B3 3rd Movement: Scherzando
B4 4th Movement: Solenne
B5 5th Movement: Con Brio

Conductor – Sir Charles Groves
Orchestra – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra


















Daniel Jones (12 September 1881 – 4 December 1967) was a London-born British phonetician who studied under Paul Passy, professor of phonetics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne (University of Paris). He was head of the Department of Phonetics at University College, London.











Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer, whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion"; the 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood; and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. He became widely popular in his lifetime, and remained so after his premature death at the age of 39 in New York City, but had by then acquired a reputation, which he encouraged, as a "roistering, drunken and doomed poet












Sir Charles Barnard Groves (10 March 1915 – 20 June 1992) was an English conductor










" Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night "


Do not go gentle into that good night, 
Old age should burn and rave at close of day; 
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.


Though wise men at their end know dark is right, 
Because their words had forked no lightning they 
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright 
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, 
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, 
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, 
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight 
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, 
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height, 
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. 
Do not go gentle into that good night. 
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.


" 別溫馴地步入美好的夜 " 


別溫馴地步入美好的夜,
晚年應在遲暮時燃燒並咆哮;
憤怒,憤怒地抗拒瀕死光焰。


縱然智者在大限時知悉黑暗合乎倫常,
因他們的語言再也無法叉出雷電,他們
拒絕溫馴地步入美好的夜。

行善者,在最後的浪潮旁,泣訴曾如此璀璨光明,
他們翩舞於綠色海灣的脆弱言行,
憤怒,憤怒地抗拒瀕死光焰。

狂人們,飛行時追逐並歌誦太陽,
他們省悟,已太遲,在途中哀傷,
別溫馴地走入美好的夜。

死者,臨終時以迷茫的視線張望,
盲目仍可像流星一樣燃燒並雀躍,
憤怒,憤怒地抗拒瀕死光焰。

而你,我的父親,於哀傷之高潮,
咒我,佑我,以你驚懼的淚,我禱告,
別溫馴地步入美好的夜,

憤怒,憤怒地抗拒瀕死光焰。


資料來源 :  http://mypaper.pchome.com.tw/korn31910/post/1313021652








Interstellar (2014) ( 星際效應 )
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writers: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain















初版 : 
EMI ASD 2855
















  


CD : LYRITA SRCD.329
Daniel JONES(1912-1993)
Symphony No. 4 (1954) [31:35]*
Symphony No. 7 (1972) [21:54]*
Symphony No. 8 (1972) [24:32]**
 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles Groves*

BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra/Bryden Thomson**







2016年2月1日 星期一

賈拉斯 指揮 西貝流士 : NO. 5 交響曲 / Sibelius : Symphony No 5 in E flat major Op 82 - conducted by Jussi Jalas

                                  ( REMINGTON R-199-201,1953年 LP )




Jalas 是 Sibelius 的親女婿,有此關係他專注 Sibelius 作品的推廣是理所當然。除了後來在 DECCA 公司的錄音也陸續發出 CD 外,早期在 REMINGTON 的錄音現已少見
值得介紹一番。

本唱片最精彩部份是笫三樂章所謂的 " swan calls  " 高潮,他没有 1987年Bernstein 就在 DG與 維也納愛樂 錄音那麼煸動, 強勁有力驅使維也納愛樂使音符之間充滿著血氣之勇聽來汗毛直豎。而 Jalas 用溫的銅管群在後頭緩緩推動歌詠著這一片大塊山水的壯麗 令人深感他對 Sibelius 作品的厚愛。











Symphony No.5 In E Flat, Op. 82 
LP-A
1  Tempo Molto Moderato 
2  Allegro Moderato 
LP-B
3  Andante Mosso Quasi Allegretto 
4  Allegro Molto 

Jussi Jalas  / RIAS Symphony Orchestra













Jussi Jalas (June 23, 1908 – October 11, 1985) was a Finnish conductor and composer.

Jussi Jalas 是西貝流士的女婿,愛屋及烏之下也成了 西貝流士 音樂的專家 替 DECCA 公司錄製了SIBELIUS 作品共4張 LP,已有CD問市。


福特萬格勒 (右) 與 西貝流士 (左) 在1950年會面時的景象,在 西貝流士 後面的是他的女婿 Jussi Jalas。