Classics Explained: DVORAK - Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' (Siepmann)_音乐专辑
Classics Explained: DVORAK - Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' (Siepmann)
又名: 古典解读系列－德沃夏克《第九自新大陆交响曲》/杰瑞米·希尔普曼主讲
表演者: Dvorak/Jeremy Siepmann
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2002-09-17
唱片数: 2
出版者: Naxos
条形码: 0636943806524
专辑简介
Classics Explained
An Introduction to... DVO?áK: Symphony No. 9 'From the New World'
Author and Narrator: Jeremy Siepmann
2 CDs, including the complete work
136-page booklet
Naxos 8.558065-66
ISBN: 1-84379-014-9
Few works for the concert hall have won such immediate and continuing popularity as Dvo?ák's Symphony No. 9 'From the New World'. Dramatic, lyrical, and spacious, it presents a rich panorama of ravishing and exciting orchestral colours, reflecting the experiences and emotions of the great Czech composer during his years in America towards the end of the nineteenth century. Its abiding magic might seem beyond analysis, but in this detailed and fascinating tour Jeremy Siepmann explores the inner-workings of a masterpiece, his enthusiasm not only intact but enhanced.
Dvo?ák's 'New World' Symphony is undoubtedly a much-played, much-loved masterpiece - but why? What are the 'New World' connections, and how does it link with the 19th-century symphonic tradition that was so much the composer's musical heritage? This informal but fascinating and detailed account enriches our appreciation of one of the most popular symphonies without the need for any theoretical knowledge of music.
曲目
Classics Explained: DVORAK - Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' (Siepmann)
Disc 1
1. A quiet beginning: sorrow, syncopation, and sequence 00:02:38
2. Instrumental colour as a prime element: clarinets and bassoons, an outburst by the French horn 00:00:57
3. The opening tune again, with different instrumental colouring: now flutes and oboes 00:00:32
4. The first big surprise: strings, shattering drumbeats, shrieks from flutes, oboes, and clarinets 00:00:37
5. Cellos and basses take us into a new key while flutes and oboes dance in syncopation. 00:00:32
6. Horns, violas, and cellos introduce a new idea, soon to evolve into the main theme. 00:00:31
7. A tiny detail from the opening culminates in a wild drumming that heralds a major event 00:00:43
8. Introduction complete 00:02:05
9. A solo horn introduces the main theme, perkily answered by bassoons and horns. 00:00:39
10. The theme moves to G major; answering phrase from flutes, oboes, bassoons. 00:00:33
11. Long crescendo, tremolo strings, back to tonic and biggest statement yet of the main theme. 00:00:39
12. Transition to the secondary theme through the use of sequence. Sonata form; satability and flux 00:01:36
13. Three-bar groupings and again the use of sequence, spelling out a chord 00:00:34
14. The sequence continues to rise, and the four-bar phrase returns as the standard unit. 00:00:18
15. The first violins start off the next phrase, but the melodic shape is more compact. 00:00:21
16. The violins fall silent; the violas and cellos answer with a new figure 00:00:09
17. So now we have a two-bar group, made up of statement and answer. 00:00:07
18. The same thing again (though not quite the same) 00:00:05
19. Transition complete. The secondary theme arrives, with French horns as 'bagpipes'. 00:01:00
20. The 'bagpipe drone' is taken over by cellos, with their insistently repeated G and D. 00:00:19
21. The tune is taken up by cellos and double-basses, 'shadowed' by the second violins. 00:00:57
22. The violins continue a pattern of steady pairs, and the cellos and basses introduce a new idea. 00:00:33
23. Unexpectedly, we find ourselves back with the secondary theme. A new idea emerges. 00:00:26
24. Again we hear the shortened version of the secondary theme 00:00:33
25. The suspense is heightened as everything slows down 00:00:25
26. This beautiful flute tune is said to resemble 'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot'. 00:00:47
27. A big crescendo leads to a final statement of the closing theme 00:01:16
28. The development section begins with a conversation between cellos, double-bases, and violins. 00:01:09
29. The beginning of the closing theme is taken up in turn by the horn, piccolo, and trumpet. 00:00:18
30. Sequential chirping from the oboes based on the 'answering' part of the main theme, now in the major 00:00:18
31. Much of the development comes from a diminution of the closing theme from the exposition. 00:00:19
32. A tiny detail becomes a major ingredient, giving an agitated quality to an originally sunny tune. 00:00:31
33. Through a sequence of keys so quickly that it is hard to keep track of them 00:00:37
34. The main theme from massed cellos and double-basses, topped by two trumpets over tremolo violas 00:01:46
35. After that major climax, we arrive at the threshold of the recapitulation 00:01:04
36. Dvorak flouts tradition by setting the secondary theme and the closing theme in unexpected keys. 00:01:10
37. The tumultuous convulsion of the coda brings the first movement to its epic close. 00:03:09
38. Humpty Dumpty: putting the bits back together again 00:00:20
39. First movement (complete) 00:11:36
40. The very opening chords unmistakably herald the arrival of something special. 00:01:06
41. The role of instrumentation in setting the scene... 00:01:10
42. ...and in enhancing the quality of one of the most famous tunes in symphonic history. 00:01:29
43. The cor anglais is joined by the clarinet, creating a fascinating change in the timbre. 00:01:08
44. For the closing part of the tune, there is another new sonority: cor anglais plus bassoon. 00:00:24
45. The closing bar is repeated by clarinets and bassoons, the horn adding a new touch 00:00:28
46. Back to the start to hear the whole of the story so far, this time without commentary 00:02:24
47. A change of scoring: the slow opening chords return, this time played by the winds alone. 00:01:14
48. The changes in scoring are just beginning. 00:02:35
49. The flutes and oboes introduce a new tune, over hushed tremolo strings. 00:01:05
50. A memorable combination of continuous, asymmetrical melody with steady, march-like counterpoint. 00:01:28
51. Back in that woodland glade, the light and shadows have changed, revealing new shapes and patterns. 00:01:33
52. The next section is new and forward-looking, yet also a kind of dream-recollection of a past scene. 00:01:30
53. An abrupt change of mood, much discussion and embellishment, and a hushed note of expectancy 00:02:01
54. Subjectivity and expertise; Sourek and Tovey disagree; onwards, into the final section 00:05:14
55. Cue to whole movement 00:00:10
56. Second movement (complete) 00:12:00
Disc 2
1. Dvorak, Beethoven, and the Scherzo. Dvorak purposely confuses the listener's expectations. 00:01:54
2. Using a little fanfare, Dvorak further builds up expectation before revealing the main theme. 00:00:21
3. When the theme is revealed, we find that it is not exactly a tune. 00:00:36
4. Two little bursts of rhythm provide the seeds from which much of the movement grows. 00:00:24
5. It is the second half of the theme that dominates. 00:00:22
6. Back to the beginning to hear the whole of this opening section 00:00:48
7. Without ever being remotely 'academic' or 'intellectual', there is much counterpoint going on here. 00:00:20
8. Dvorak's very Czech love of combining conflicting rhythms, sometimes metres 00:02:31
9. A clearly transitional passage, obsessed with the rhythmic tag that both opens and closes the theme 00:00:30
10. Sooner than we may have expected, we seem to have arrived at the Trio section. 00:01:07
11. A new kind of tone quality sheds a subtly different light on the theme. 00:00:35
12. The flutes and oboes now chime in with an answering variant of the opening... 00:00:21
13. ...and the cellos and bassoons take up the original version of the theme. 00:00:43
14. A false alarm: it was not the traditional Trio section at all, but rather part 2 of Scherzo proper 00:00:52
15. Soon, after a very rapid build, the Scherzo proper does reach its final phase. 00:01:13
16. The orchestral texture thins dramatically, and we approach what this time really is the Trio section. 00:01:28
17. The Trio section is reminiscent more of the 'Old World' than the 'New'. 00:00:50
18. In the second half of the Trio, a new tune emerges, a kind of Slavonic waltz. 00:01:00
19. The main theme of the Trio returns against a much fuller orchestral background. 00:00:36
20. Then it is all a matter of repeats, until we reach the coda, which ends with an explosive bang. 00:01:15
21. Third movement (complete) 00:08:07
22. Like the first movement, the fourth begins not with its main theme but with an introduction. 00:00:47
23. The main theme: an imposing march, introduced by trumpets and trombones, with timpani 00:00:48
24. The main theme, part two. A codetta-like passage closes off the march 00:01:01
25. The 'transitional' theme, while outwardly contrasting, is actually a hidden variant of the march. 00:00:53
26. A point of future obsession 00:00:16
27. The second half of this 'transitional' theme is given to the winds the strings have finished. 00:00:16
28. The 'obsession' takes root, with a ten-fold repetition, before the arrival of the second subject. 00:00:57
29. The hidden traps in sonata-form terminology: 'second main theme' vx. 'second subject' 00:02:31
30. The unexpected entry and subsequent ubiquity of 'Three Blind Mice' 00:01:23
31. We meet the mice again, now in the cellos and double-basses, where they persistently refuse to run. 00:00:36
32. More 'Three Blind Mice' material 00:00:30
33. The mice return to the basement, where the bassoons have joined the cellos and double-basses. 00:00:19
34. Next, they are back with the clarinets who pass them back to the cellos 00:00:18
35. Now they return to the high winds, delicately trilling. 00:00:15
36. Relief, at last: the mice back off, making way for a remainder of the main theme from the trumpets. 00:00:34
37. The mice yield to woodpeckers; the main theme is now doubled in speed 00:01:07
38. The triplets of the 'transitional' theme are now handed down through strings 00:00:23
39. Reminders of past movements begin to fly by, thick and fast, sometimes very fast. 00:00:28
40. In fact there are three bits of quotation going on here simultaneously. 00:00:23
41. The violas react every time the 'Goin' Home' theme is quoted by the winds. 00:00:35
42. The rhythm of the opening of the 'Goin' Home' theme dominates, transformed by trumpets 00:00:35
43. The march theme reappears as a Mendelssohnian fairy; the main theme from the 1st mov. now returns. 00:01:55
44. We reach an interesting point: have we heard the beginning of the recapitulation, or not? 00:01:05
45. Perhaps this is it? Back for a reminder of the theme proper, as we first heard it 00:01:41
46. Tovey places the start of the recapitulation here. 00:01:27
47. The main theme recast in pathetic rather than heroic terms - and with magical scoring 00:01:51
48. This unexpected crisis in confidence plays a major role in the overall dramatic impact of the mov. 00:01:49
49. The main theme returns - not complete, but chopped up into shorter and shorter fragments. 00:01:30
50. A glorious thematic stew; high drama, a powerful build-up... but then? 00:00:56
51. The dramatic highpoint of the mov., an astonishing transformation, but first, back to the original 00:01:26
52. The same chords again, this time blasted out by the entire wind and brass sections 00:01:09
53. Now we are into the finishing stretch, but the surprises continue to the very end of the very end. 00:01:42
54. Summary, context, and cue into the whole movement 00:01:05
55. Fourth movement (complete) 00:11:05
