Arvo P?rt: Pro et Contra_音乐专辑
Arvo P?rt: Pro et Contra
又名: 正反辩论－帕特作品集/《正反辩论－大提琴协奏曲》《第一与第二交响曲》《巴赫拼贴》《无穷动》《我们的园地》
表演者: Truls M?rk/Estonian National Symphony Orchestra/Paavo J?rvi
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2004
唱片数: 1
出版者: Virgin Classics
条形码: 0724354563027
专辑简介
一篇实用的评论，交待了这次录音牵涉的人物关系。
reviewed by Raymond Tuttle. www.classical.net
As I think Yogi Berra once said, "It's déjà vu all over again." Back in 1989, Neeme J?rvi recorded a disc for the Swedish BIS label that included the first three symphonies of Arvo P?rt, plus his Cello Concerto Pro et contra, and his Perpetuum Mobile. P?rt recently had found an international audience, thanks in great part to a disc released by ECM New Series, which contained the works Fratres, Tabula Rasa, and Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten. These works were from the latter half of the 1970s, when the composer had adopted a new, stripped-down style he referred to as "tintinnabuli" – an allusion to the ringing of bells. Listeners turned on to this music wanted to know more about P?rt and where he had come from, so it was only natural for concert programmers and CD producers to bring his older music in front of the public. Neeme J?rvi's disc was a like a bucket of ice water in the face of those who been lulled by the ECM New Series release. This earlier music was confrontational and not at all soothing! However, it was of the same high quality found in the later works.
Now Neeme J?rvi's son Paavo has recorded an almost identical CD for Virgin Classics. The only difference is that the Third Symphony has been omitted (it is dedicated to Neeme J?rvi, by the way), to be replaced by the Collage über B.A.C.H. (1964) and the children's cantata Meie aed ("Our Garden"), written in 1959 when the composer was in his twenties. These works paint an even more self-contradictory self-portrait of P?rt, particularly the cantata: innocent children's voices sing about the joys of laboring a community garden; the music is of almost nursery-rhyme simplicity. Let us not forget that Estonia was under Communist control in 1959! An artist of integrity who had something personal to say could hardly avoid contradicting himself under such sociopolitical conditions, and P?rt was no exception.
I am glad to hear the Second Symphony again. Here's a work that really raises difficult questions about meaning, with its phalanx of squeak-toys (!) played by the orchestral musicians, its grinding rhythms and dissonances, and its saccharine quotation (near the end) of a piano piece called "Sweet Day Dreams" from Tchaikovsky's Album for the Young. What's it all about, Arvo? In about fifteen minutes, the composer takes us on one hell of a journey.
Dad's performances (with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra) are in your face, an impression intensified by BIS's dynamic engineering. The son's are a little softer in focus, perhaps less shocking; whether this approach falsifies P?rt's intentions or not, I can't say. Limited to one disc, perhaps I'd choose the earlier one, but it is good to have both of them for the unique works that each one contains.
曲目
Arvo P?rt: Pro et Contra
1 Maestoso 5:29
2 Largo 0:31
3 Allegro 3:18
Arvo P?rt: Symphony No. 1 "Polyphonic"
4 Kaanonid 12:17
5 Prelüüd ja Fuuga 7:39
Arvo P?rt: Collage über BACH
6 Toccata: Preciso 2:49
7 Sarabande: Lento 3:06
8 Ricercare: Deciso 1:35
9 Arvo P?rt: Perpetum Mobile 6:56
Arvo P?rt: Meie aed (Our Garden)
10 Allegro 2:34
11 Andantino cantabile 4:08
12 Allegro 1:44
13 Moderato - Allegro 2:41
Arvo P?rt: Symphony No. 2
14 I. 5:32
15 II. 3:18
16 III. 6:16
