Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor; Funérailles & Chopin, Schumann, Debussy / Horowitz_音乐专辑
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor; Funérailles & Chopin, Schumann, Debussy / Horowitz
表演者: Vladimir Horowitz
专辑类型: Mono ADD
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 08/02/2005
唱片数: 1
出版者: EMI Classicis
条形码: 0724347685828
专辑简介
The early Vladimir Horowitz HMV recordings selected for EMI's Great Artists of the Century series have had umpteen CD incarnations, legitimate and otherwise. Despite a general lack of surface noise characterizing EMI's most recent digital transfers from what I assume to be "inside" source material, I frankly prefer the added overtones and timbral bloom Bryan Crimp effects in his noisier (and more expensive) remasterings for APR. And in a few instances, Andante's transfers from commercial shellac pressings yield more vivid and vibrant results (Debussy's Etude No. 11, for instance).
I have no qualms, however, concerning the young Horowitz. What's so interesting about the legendary pianist's 1932 Liszt Sonata is how its breathtaking clarity, headlong sweep, and uncluttered directness foreshadow aspects of modern Liszt playing while retaining plenty of "old school" color and drama. Moreover, close listening reveals that Horowitz usually obtains bravura results less through technical calculation than simply by playing the music as written, which was not always true of his older self.
The octaves in the Quasi Adagio section, for example, sound positively jolting and urgent in strict tempo (the same observation applies to the same composer's famous central octave section in Funérailles, and to the final descending octaves of Chopin's "Black Key" Etude). At the same time, Horowitz spins out lyrical passages with heartfelt eloquence and an unerring sense of proportion, while his carefully contoured bass lines and inner voices reinforce Liszt's extraordinary harmonic tension. And notwithstanding occasional finger slips in the heat of battle, note the amazing accuracy of Horowitz's leaping chords, or the pinpointed control of his rapid figurations, achieved with little help from the sustain pedal.
Compared to Horowitz's Chopin Mazurka interpretations from the late 1940s, his earlier traversals are less garishly detailed and darkly lit. However, the Schumann Arabeske seems relatively matter-of-fact next to the pianist's delicately nuanced 1962 remake. The Debussy Etude's prismatic textures and rhythmic definition sacrifice nothing in impressionistic atmosphere, muffled transfer and all. Bryce Morrison's booklet notes perceptively zero in on the qualities that made Horowitz a key figure in the history of his instrument. [9/19/2005]
--Jed Distler, ClassicsToday.com
曲目
1. Sonata for Piano in B minor, S 178 by Franz Liszt
2. Harmonies poétiques et réligieuses, S 173: no 7, Funérailles by Franz Liszt
3. Etudes (12) for Piano, Op. 10: no 4 in C sharp minor, B 74 by Frédéric Chopin
4. Etudes (12) for Piano, Op. 10: no 5 in G flat major "Black Keys" by Frédéric Chopin
5. Etudes (12) for Piano, Op. 10: no 8 in F major by Frédéric Chopin
6. Etudes (12) for Piano, Op. 25: no 3 in F major by Frédéric Chopin
7. Impromptu for Piano no 1 in A flat major, B 110/Op. 29 by Frédéric Chopin
8. Nocturne for Piano in E minor, B 19/Op. 72 no 1 by Frédéric Chopin
9. Mazurkas (5) for Piano, B 61/Op. 7: no 3 in F minor by Frédéric Chopin
10. Mazurkas (4) for Piano, Op. 41: no 2 in E minor by Frédéric Chopin
11. Mazurka for Piano in C sharp minor by Frédéric Chopin
12. Arabeske for Piano in C major, Op. 18 by Robert Schumann
13. Sonata for Piano no 2 in G minor, Op. 22: Presto passionato by Robert Schumann
14. Etudes (12) for Piano, Book 2: no 11, Pour les arpèges composées by Claude Debussy
