シベリウスの第4番以降の交響曲は様々な演奏を聴いた。
一筋縄でいかない曲集であり、第5番だけならデイヴィス/ボストン響、第7番ではベルグルンド指揮なども魅力的。
しかしトータルではカラヤン/ベルリンフィル盤が重厚かつ明快な演奏を聴かせてくれる。
「カラヤンのシベリウスは北欧情緒に欠け、なにか違う」という声も聞くが、これ以上きちんと振られた立派な演奏も少ないだろう。
1960年代ながら録音もトップクラスで、カラヤンがその後録音しなかったのも分かる。
EMI 時代にフィルハーモニア管を振った演奏も明快(特に難渋な4番)。
ロマン派の香り高い第2番はベルリンフィル盤をも凌ぐ出来であった。
シベリウス:交響曲第2番
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ディスク: 1
1 | Symphony No. 4 in a Minor, Op. 63: Tempo Molto Moderato, Quasi Adagio |
2 | Symphony No. 4 in a Minor, Op. 63: Allegro Molto Vivace |
3 | Symphony No. 4 in a Minor, Op. 63: Il Tempo Largo |
4 | Symphony No. 4 in a Minor, Op. 63: Allegro |
5 | Der Schwan Von Tuonela, Op. 22, No. 3: The Swan of Tuonela - Le Cygne de Tuonela - Legende - Andante Molto Sostenuto |
6 | Symphony No. 5 in E Flat Major, Op. 82: I. Tempo Molto Moderato - Largamente |
7 | Symphony No. 5 in E Flat Major, Op. 82: I. Allegro Moderato - Presto |
8 | Symphony No. 5 in E Flat Major, Op. 82: II. Andante Mosso, Quasi Allegretto |
9 | Symphony No. 5 in E Flat Major, Op. 82: III. Allegro Molto - Misterioso - Un Pochettino Largamente - Largamente Assai |
ディスク: 2
1 | Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op. 104: I. Allegro Molto Moderato |
2 | Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op. 104: II. Allegretto Moderato |
3 | Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op. 104: III. Poco Vivace |
4 | Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op. 104: IV. Allegro Molto |
5 | Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 105: Adagio |
6 | Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 105: Vivacissimo - Adagio |
7 | Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 105: Allegro Molto Moderato - Allegro Moderato |
8 | Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 105: Vivace - Presto - Adagio - Largamente Molto - Affettuoso |
9 | Tapiola, Op. 112: Largamente - Allegro - Allegro Modeato |
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- メーカーにより製造中止になりました : いいえ
- 製品サイズ : 14.2 x 12.6 x 0.99 cm; 90.72 g
- メーカー : Deutsche Grammophon
- EAN : 0028945774824
- 商品モデル番号 : 457 748-2
- オリジナル盤発売日 : 1999
- レーベル : Deutsche Grammophon
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上位レビュー、対象国: 日本
レビューのフィルタリング中に問題が発生しました。後でもう一度試してください。
2018年10月29日に日本でレビュー済み
実に壮麗なシベリウスである。聴く度に響きのあまりの美しさに陶然としてしまうが、音楽作りはどこまでも自然体である。例えばアンソニー・コリンズやバルビローリのシベリウスには、指揮者の熱い共感や発見の驚きがダイレクトに音化され、それがアクセントになって聴き手をはっとさせる瞬間があるが、カラヤンにはそうした、ある種の「ひっかかり」がない。これは決してけなしているのではない。そうした調和のとれた円満なアプローチが明らかにする「美しさ」というものがあると思う。それは万人に受け入れられ易い「標準語の美しさ」といえるだろうか。
「第4」はそういう意味で、この晦渋な作品の良さをストレートに伝えてくれる名演。「第5」も率直な音楽作りが好ましいが、第1楽章コーダの湧き上がるような感興や終楽章最後の6つの和音の圧倒的迫力はバルビローリがやはり素晴らしい。「第6」も本当に素晴らしい名演。自然体の語り口だからこそオーケストラの美しい響きが生かされている。
「第7」は千変万化する曲想を破綻なく描ききって感動的。ビギナーからマニアまで、万人をうならせる魅力に満ちたアルバムである。
「第4」はそういう意味で、この晦渋な作品の良さをストレートに伝えてくれる名演。「第5」も率直な音楽作りが好ましいが、第1楽章コーダの湧き上がるような感興や終楽章最後の6つの和音の圧倒的迫力はバルビローリがやはり素晴らしい。「第6」も本当に素晴らしい名演。自然体の語り口だからこそオーケストラの美しい響きが生かされている。
「第7」は千変万化する曲想を破綻なく描ききって感動的。ビギナーからマニアまで、万人をうならせる魅力に満ちたアルバムである。
2005年2月25日に日本でレビュー済み
交響曲第6番のために私は購入しました。
それは後期シベリウスの志向と宮沢賢治のそれが似ているという講義を聞いたからです。
第6番の生と死を感じさせるような旋律は『銀河鉄道の夜』とつながりがあるそうです。
奥が深い交響曲です。
それは後期シベリウスの志向と宮沢賢治のそれが似ているという講義を聞いたからです。
第6番の生と死を感じさせるような旋律は『銀河鉄道の夜』とつながりがあるそうです。
奥が深い交響曲です。
2004年4月1日に日本でレビュー済み
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カラヤンは若いころからシベリウスの作品の演奏に積極的でした。そんなシベリウス演奏の第一人者ともいうべきカラヤンとベルリン・フィルの1960年代の勢いのある演奏です。ここではさらにベルリン・フィルの磨き上げられた、非常に緊張感のある名演奏を聞けます。とくに第7番の美しく、華奢な演奏はカラヤンならではです。
2013年3月3日に日本でレビュー済み
1965年にDGに録音したもの。先日ベルグルンドの4番を聴いて全然わからなかったの で、今度はカラヤンで聴いてみた。演奏は断然BPOの方が素晴らしい。音に圧倒的な力が撮っている。時閣の中で光を探すような神秘的は情感も十分に感じられる。とても半世紀近くも前の録音とは思えない程、立派な録音だ。
だけど音楽はやっぱりよく分からない。最初はいいんだけど、速いテンポの部分が少なくて集中力が途切れてくると音楽が頭に入ってこなくなる。他のことを考えている自分に気づいてしまうのだ。3楽章の終わりから4楽章の初めにかけてちょっとだけ盛り上がるが、やっぱり静かに終わっていく。
だけど音楽はやっぱりよく分からない。最初はいいんだけど、速いテンポの部分が少なくて集中力が途切れてくると音楽が頭に入ってこなくなる。他のことを考えている自分に気づいてしまうのだ。3楽章の終わりから4楽章の初めにかけてちょっとだけ盛り上がるが、やっぱり静かに終わっていく。
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cinefil50
5つ星のうち5.0
Une intensité restée inégalée ...
2019年8月8日にフランスでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Pour une somme dérisoire , il est possible de se procurer ces quatre symphonies , sommets de 65 et 67 , superbement enregistrés et encore magnifiés par la remastérisation de la série " The Originals " , sans oublier un Tapiola de référence . Disque majeur , dans l'histoire des enregistrements symphoniques .
Karajan a eu , assez tôt , dès les années 50 , avec le Philharmonia , une affinité particulière avec l'oeuvre de Sibelius : il faut réécouter ses sensationnelles versions réalisées entre 53 et 60 , sans doute moins tendues et concentrées mais d'accès plus aimable , et admirablement remastérisées dans l'énorme coffret Karajan Remastered !
Il s'en est expliqué ici et là et il est probable que les partitions de Sibelius rejoignaient une démarche intérieure qui fut au coeur de ses préoccupations pendant les dernières décennies de sa vie , que je qualifierais de spirituelle , même si le mot est simplifiant .
Ces grandes symphonies de Sibélius sont étonnamment brèves par rapport aux partitions hyper-développées de Bruckner et Mahler . Elles sont en rupture totale , sur ce point .
Pour moi , elles représentent le chant du cygne de la grande tradition de la forme symphonie en Occident . ( Je n'ignore pas le cycle , trop abondant , à mon goût , des 15 symphonies de Chostakovitch , hélas inégales et qui confirment , d'une certaine façon , que c' était bien la fin des grands cycles symphoniques d'un seul compositeur ) .
Il est possible que ce soit une des raisons du silence précoce de Sibélius , qui aurait senti qu'il ne pouvait pas aller beaucoup plus loin dans la concision et l'épurement tout en restant accessible à l'auditeur ...
Les interprètes doivent donc être à la hauteur de telles partitions , où il n' y a ni délayages ni facilités ni véritables temps de détente et de pause ...
Berlin et Karajan en offrent une lecture d'un concentration et d'une intensité qui clouent l'auditeur à son fauteuil .
Karajan ( son biographe Osborne l'explique bien ) fut toujours un bourreau de travail , un perfectionniste obsessionnel , multipliant les répétitions jusqu 'à ce qu' 'il obtienne ce qu'il estimait être la restitution parfaite de ses intentions .
D'autre part , formée par Furtwängler puis Karajan , qui développera encore ce précieux acquis , la Philharmonie de Berlin déploie la puissance inégalée de son soubassement dans le grave : écoutons le début de la 4 ° ...
Karajan peut donc développer ses sortilèges de raffinements et nuances en s'appuyant sur ce socle inébranlable .
La notice résume bien , à mon avis , ce que visait Karajan : un travail acharné de construction sur les couches de la partition , les registres , les couleurs ; aucune préoccupation matérialiste et aucun véritable intérêt pour le folklore local , genre bruissements de la forêt finlandaise et oies dans le ciel ; pas d'effusions , pas de romantisme déplacé et pas d'exhibitionnisme sentimental de l'interprète ; le respect du statisme dépersonnalisé du discours musical de Sibélius , le refus de tout pathos ...
Karajan a eu , assez tôt , dès les années 50 , avec le Philharmonia , une affinité particulière avec l'oeuvre de Sibelius : il faut réécouter ses sensationnelles versions réalisées entre 53 et 60 , sans doute moins tendues et concentrées mais d'accès plus aimable , et admirablement remastérisées dans l'énorme coffret Karajan Remastered !
Il s'en est expliqué ici et là et il est probable que les partitions de Sibelius rejoignaient une démarche intérieure qui fut au coeur de ses préoccupations pendant les dernières décennies de sa vie , que je qualifierais de spirituelle , même si le mot est simplifiant .
Ces grandes symphonies de Sibélius sont étonnamment brèves par rapport aux partitions hyper-développées de Bruckner et Mahler . Elles sont en rupture totale , sur ce point .
Pour moi , elles représentent le chant du cygne de la grande tradition de la forme symphonie en Occident . ( Je n'ignore pas le cycle , trop abondant , à mon goût , des 15 symphonies de Chostakovitch , hélas inégales et qui confirment , d'une certaine façon , que c' était bien la fin des grands cycles symphoniques d'un seul compositeur ) .
Il est possible que ce soit une des raisons du silence précoce de Sibélius , qui aurait senti qu'il ne pouvait pas aller beaucoup plus loin dans la concision et l'épurement tout en restant accessible à l'auditeur ...
Les interprètes doivent donc être à la hauteur de telles partitions , où il n' y a ni délayages ni facilités ni véritables temps de détente et de pause ...
Berlin et Karajan en offrent une lecture d'un concentration et d'une intensité qui clouent l'auditeur à son fauteuil .
Karajan ( son biographe Osborne l'explique bien ) fut toujours un bourreau de travail , un perfectionniste obsessionnel , multipliant les répétitions jusqu 'à ce qu' 'il obtienne ce qu'il estimait être la restitution parfaite de ses intentions .
D'autre part , formée par Furtwängler puis Karajan , qui développera encore ce précieux acquis , la Philharmonie de Berlin déploie la puissance inégalée de son soubassement dans le grave : écoutons le début de la 4 ° ...
Karajan peut donc développer ses sortilèges de raffinements et nuances en s'appuyant sur ce socle inébranlable .
La notice résume bien , à mon avis , ce que visait Karajan : un travail acharné de construction sur les couches de la partition , les registres , les couleurs ; aucune préoccupation matérialiste et aucun véritable intérêt pour le folklore local , genre bruissements de la forêt finlandaise et oies dans le ciel ; pas d'effusions , pas de romantisme déplacé et pas d'exhibitionnisme sentimental de l'interprète ; le respect du statisme dépersonnalisé du discours musical de Sibélius , le refus de tout pathos ...

Sergio
5つ星のうち5.0
Grandioso Sibelius
2013年10月28日にスペインでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Sobre la interpretación Karajan y la Filarmónica de Berlín decir que es sobresaliente en estas sinfonías de Sibelius, grabadas entre 1965 y 1969. Hay progresiones en varias movimientos que, para mí,son inigualables, como en el Il tempo largo de la 4ª Sinfonía o el gran Crescendo del primer movimiento de la 5ª Sinfonía. Por no hablar de la 7ª, otro gran acierto. Si le queremos poner un pero a Karajan sería que las sinfonías 1, 2 y 3 las hubiera grabado para conseguir uno de los grandes ciclos sibelianos.
Sobre el reprocesado (1999), decir que ha mejorado lo anterior. Yo poseía el de la serie Gallería, de los años 80, y aunque no estaba mal, era muy mejorable. Por suerte, la buena interpretación hacía olvidar cierta compresión y lejanía de los solistas de la orquesta. Ahora está todo más presente y los detalles instrumentales han aparecido, como el vibrato del inicio del Allegro molto vivace, que nos presenta a otro oboe que no conocía por su lejanía en la serie citada, así como unos contrabajos imponentes, que nos hacen creer en la grandeza de un Karajan al que a gente como yo, nos gustaría poder disfrutar en vivo hoy en día. Por su calidad, y por la falta de una figura imponente y grandiosa en la dirección de orquesta actual.
Por tanto, si este Sibelius no lo posee, no tarde en buscarlo, y si el cd que posee tiene un reprocesado anterior, adquiera este urgentemente, pues no tiene nada que ver con el anterior.
Sobre el reprocesado (1999), decir que ha mejorado lo anterior. Yo poseía el de la serie Gallería, de los años 80, y aunque no estaba mal, era muy mejorable. Por suerte, la buena interpretación hacía olvidar cierta compresión y lejanía de los solistas de la orquesta. Ahora está todo más presente y los detalles instrumentales han aparecido, como el vibrato del inicio del Allegro molto vivace, que nos presenta a otro oboe que no conocía por su lejanía en la serie citada, así como unos contrabajos imponentes, que nos hacen creer en la grandeza de un Karajan al que a gente como yo, nos gustaría poder disfrutar en vivo hoy en día. Por su calidad, y por la falta de una figura imponente y grandiosa en la dirección de orquesta actual.
Por tanto, si este Sibelius no lo posee, no tarde en buscarlo, y si el cd que posee tiene un reprocesado anterior, adquiera este urgentemente, pues no tiene nada que ver con el anterior.

VR
5つ星のうち5.0
Devoid of human connectivity or human relativity - Sibelius composed that way, Karajan conducted that way
2011年12月17日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Karajan's style suits Sibelius's work - Smooth, stylized and sophisticated sound. Karajan had the ability to remove the human element from music. This may not work with his Beethoven symphony cycle, but it works here. Sibelius music feels like being in an alien land, where no human is present. The sanitizing effect of Karajan - music polished to the degree that music feels devoid of human presence, is uncannily just the correct mood for the Sibelius effect.
This is also one of the better recordings of Karajan recording soundwise. I find that Karajan's records during his late recording years tend to be shrill with the kind of digital recording technology (probably new at that time) that was employed by Deutsche Grammaphon. I also hear Karajan used to have artistic license over manipulating the acoustic engineering of the DG digital recordings. His Beethoven cycle has this shrill metallic over-amped treble high quality. But this recording is so much more wholesome. The art of Karajan's conducting style shines through with Sibelius which make this CD set great; on top of that the sound quality is so good it is like a blue ray for the ears.
Coming to Sibelius as a composer - there is so much invention in themes. They are so unique that you cannot peg a particular theme as folksy. You cannot brand the musical motifs because the phrases come and go, on a wave of breakthrough musical ideas. Some phrases live short and are gone, but the lasting sound of that tune or theme still lingers - as something mysterious which you cannot put your finger on. I had to listen to this 2 CD set four times to get some form of comprehension of the symphonies as a whole to satisfy the musical completeness of these symphonies in my mind; there are simply so many musical ideas bubbling through. The individual themes and phrases are like different cracks in the icy landscape and you need to zoom out and see the whole network of icy formation which is made of thatches of all these individual icy musical strokes. The Sibelius symphonies to me are unlike symphonies by other composers; to me they are large tone poems which paint musical pictures of icy lands where there is no human or animal. An inert place and unknown place, which no one knows about and no one will discover. It could well be the icy planet Europa or an icy planet outside our galaxy. All 4 symphonies in this 2 CD set (symphonies 4, 5, 6 and 7) as well as the two tone poems - The swan of Tuoneloa and Tapiola are wonderfully played. Which symphony is dear to someone is a subjective decision of the listener. Personally of all the four symphonies - the fifth symphony touches me the most...so if I may digress on this symphony...
Symphony 5 - This symphony written in 1915, revised by Sibelius again in 1916 and then once more in 1919 is an absolute gem. The first two movements bridge as one piece without a break (I did not even notice the movement had changed) and the intensity that builds in the last 5 minutes of the 2nd movement is uplifitng grandeur. The third movement's opening pizzicato theme is used as a recurring motif throughout this movement and keeps appearing in the movement as variations of the original iteration (as in the opening of the movement) - propelling the theme forward, and transforming it into new passages for solo instruments and orchestra with the undercurrent of the original pizzicato theme in the strings and orchestra. The repetitions of this theme are delicately balanced and innovatively modified for several instruments - not sounding banal or repetetive during any iteration. The last movement opens with a swirling cyclic circulating rhythm in the strings (feel traces of Beethoven's Eroica?) and transitions to an underlying brass theme which forms the bedrock over which is presented a second major theme in counterpoint. Then we have transformations of the first swirling theme - moving to elegiac passages in between; There are so many mood shifts in this movement from the nervous fervent to the peaceful-all-knowing mood. These mood changes make this work a delight to listen to. When I listen to this symphony, I feel like I am on an alien planet in a different galaxy where no other human exists and I am all alone. The music is devoid of human relativity.
This 2 CD set is a 5 star purchase hands-down. The characteristic - Devoid of human connectivity or human relativity - is the key to why Karajan and Sibelius go hand in hand; Sibelius composed that way, Karajan conducted that way.
This is also one of the better recordings of Karajan recording soundwise. I find that Karajan's records during his late recording years tend to be shrill with the kind of digital recording technology (probably new at that time) that was employed by Deutsche Grammaphon. I also hear Karajan used to have artistic license over manipulating the acoustic engineering of the DG digital recordings. His Beethoven cycle has this shrill metallic over-amped treble high quality. But this recording is so much more wholesome. The art of Karajan's conducting style shines through with Sibelius which make this CD set great; on top of that the sound quality is so good it is like a blue ray for the ears.
Coming to Sibelius as a composer - there is so much invention in themes. They are so unique that you cannot peg a particular theme as folksy. You cannot brand the musical motifs because the phrases come and go, on a wave of breakthrough musical ideas. Some phrases live short and are gone, but the lasting sound of that tune or theme still lingers - as something mysterious which you cannot put your finger on. I had to listen to this 2 CD set four times to get some form of comprehension of the symphonies as a whole to satisfy the musical completeness of these symphonies in my mind; there are simply so many musical ideas bubbling through. The individual themes and phrases are like different cracks in the icy landscape and you need to zoom out and see the whole network of icy formation which is made of thatches of all these individual icy musical strokes. The Sibelius symphonies to me are unlike symphonies by other composers; to me they are large tone poems which paint musical pictures of icy lands where there is no human or animal. An inert place and unknown place, which no one knows about and no one will discover. It could well be the icy planet Europa or an icy planet outside our galaxy. All 4 symphonies in this 2 CD set (symphonies 4, 5, 6 and 7) as well as the two tone poems - The swan of Tuoneloa and Tapiola are wonderfully played. Which symphony is dear to someone is a subjective decision of the listener. Personally of all the four symphonies - the fifth symphony touches me the most...so if I may digress on this symphony...
Symphony 5 - This symphony written in 1915, revised by Sibelius again in 1916 and then once more in 1919 is an absolute gem. The first two movements bridge as one piece without a break (I did not even notice the movement had changed) and the intensity that builds in the last 5 minutes of the 2nd movement is uplifitng grandeur. The third movement's opening pizzicato theme is used as a recurring motif throughout this movement and keeps appearing in the movement as variations of the original iteration (as in the opening of the movement) - propelling the theme forward, and transforming it into new passages for solo instruments and orchestra with the undercurrent of the original pizzicato theme in the strings and orchestra. The repetitions of this theme are delicately balanced and innovatively modified for several instruments - not sounding banal or repetetive during any iteration. The last movement opens with a swirling cyclic circulating rhythm in the strings (feel traces of Beethoven's Eroica?) and transitions to an underlying brass theme which forms the bedrock over which is presented a second major theme in counterpoint. Then we have transformations of the first swirling theme - moving to elegiac passages in between; There are so many mood shifts in this movement from the nervous fervent to the peaceful-all-knowing mood. These mood changes make this work a delight to listen to. When I listen to this symphony, I feel like I am on an alien planet in a different galaxy where no other human exists and I am all alone. The music is devoid of human relativity.
This 2 CD set is a 5 star purchase hands-down. The characteristic - Devoid of human connectivity or human relativity - is the key to why Karajan and Sibelius go hand in hand; Sibelius composed that way, Karajan conducted that way.

Reineke
5つ星のうち5.0
wirklich fantastisch dirigiert...
2013年2月3日にドイツでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Von den Sibelius-Symphonien habe ich seit Jahren verschiedene Aufnahmen gesammelt, immer wieder gehört und auch verglichen. Es fing an mit Colin Davis und dem Boston Symphony Orchestra aus den 70er Jahren, ging über Herbert Blomstedt mit dem San Francisco Symphony Orchestra aus den 90er, weiter mit Lorin Maazel und den Wiener Philharmonikern aus den 60er und auch Maazels Aufnahme mit dem Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra aus den 90er Jahren.
Colin Davis Sibelius ist ein Klassiker, ein farbiger, schwungvoller, mit großer und temperamentvoller Geste eingespielter Zyklus, während Blomstedt eher zu einer kühlen und doch lebendigen, strukturbetonten, die herben Klangfarben (besonders die der Bläserpartien) herausarbeitenden Auffassung neigt (mit einer überragenden 4., 5. und 7. Symphonie). Maazels zügige, intellektuell unterkühlte und etwas glatte Einspielung mit den Wiener Philharmonikern gefällt mir nicht so recht, viel mehr hingegen seine zweite Gesamteinspielung mit dem Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra: Hier sind die Tempi deutlich reduziert, der symphonische, bis ins Detail ausbalanzierte Fluß bekommt viel mehr Atem und Weite, man hört die jahrzehntelange Auseinandersetzung mit dem Komponisten. Und nun Karajan, um dessen vielgelobte Aufnahmen ich lange Zeit einen Bogen machte. Um es kurz zu fassen: Sie sind fantastisch. Auch Karajan liebte den Komponisten, setzte sich sehr früh für ihn ein und konnte ebenfalls auf eine lebenslange Auseinandersetzung mit dessen Werken zurückblicken. Was diese Aufnahmen meiner Ansicht nach nun einmalig macht, ist Karajans Zugriff, denn Sibelius wird hier im Kontext der spätromantischen symphonischen Tradition von Bruckner, Tschaikowsky usw. bis hin zu R. Strauss dirigiert. Das Ergebnis ist, dass die Musik einen ganz anderen Glanz, eine ungeheure Tiefe, einen mitreißenden symphonischen Fluß bekommt. Neben der beeindruckenden Virtuosität des Orchesters klingt Sibelius hier plötzlich auch "schön", pathetisch und erhaben, die Musik wirkt dabei aber auch scheinbar unkomplizierter und eingängiger. Ich erlebe Sibelius neu und bin hingerissen.
Karajans Sibelius ist eine Klasse für sich. Die Aufnahmequalität ist hervorragend, übrigens die der genannten anderen Einspielungen auch, wobei die fortgeschrittene Aufnahmetechnik der 90er Jahre den Aufnahmen mit Maazel und Blomstedt anzuhören ist.
Colin Davis Sibelius ist ein Klassiker, ein farbiger, schwungvoller, mit großer und temperamentvoller Geste eingespielter Zyklus, während Blomstedt eher zu einer kühlen und doch lebendigen, strukturbetonten, die herben Klangfarben (besonders die der Bläserpartien) herausarbeitenden Auffassung neigt (mit einer überragenden 4., 5. und 7. Symphonie). Maazels zügige, intellektuell unterkühlte und etwas glatte Einspielung mit den Wiener Philharmonikern gefällt mir nicht so recht, viel mehr hingegen seine zweite Gesamteinspielung mit dem Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra: Hier sind die Tempi deutlich reduziert, der symphonische, bis ins Detail ausbalanzierte Fluß bekommt viel mehr Atem und Weite, man hört die jahrzehntelange Auseinandersetzung mit dem Komponisten. Und nun Karajan, um dessen vielgelobte Aufnahmen ich lange Zeit einen Bogen machte. Um es kurz zu fassen: Sie sind fantastisch. Auch Karajan liebte den Komponisten, setzte sich sehr früh für ihn ein und konnte ebenfalls auf eine lebenslange Auseinandersetzung mit dessen Werken zurückblicken. Was diese Aufnahmen meiner Ansicht nach nun einmalig macht, ist Karajans Zugriff, denn Sibelius wird hier im Kontext der spätromantischen symphonischen Tradition von Bruckner, Tschaikowsky usw. bis hin zu R. Strauss dirigiert. Das Ergebnis ist, dass die Musik einen ganz anderen Glanz, eine ungeheure Tiefe, einen mitreißenden symphonischen Fluß bekommt. Neben der beeindruckenden Virtuosität des Orchesters klingt Sibelius hier plötzlich auch "schön", pathetisch und erhaben, die Musik wirkt dabei aber auch scheinbar unkomplizierter und eingängiger. Ich erlebe Sibelius neu und bin hingerissen.
Karajans Sibelius ist eine Klasse für sich. Die Aufnahmequalität ist hervorragend, übrigens die der genannten anderen Einspielungen auch, wobei die fortgeschrittene Aufnahmetechnik der 90er Jahre den Aufnahmen mit Maazel und Blomstedt anzuhören ist.

DAVID BRYSON
5つ星のうち5.0
FOR THE FAITHFUL, AND OTHERS
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Like others in 'The Originals' series, this set has a liner note that tries a bit too hard to sell the product to us. However it contains one remark, intended to be about the conductor, that actually fits the music itself very well (make allowances for its being a translation) 'This sound-scenario, unclouded either by outpourings from the soul or expressionist rumblings, or by sentimental self-portrayal...' As applied to Karajan I'm not sure that even makes sense: as applied to nearly all the music here I'd say it makes excellent sense. My own idea of the last four Sibelius symphonies is like that - meaning absolutely no disparagement of Mahler or Shostakovich, these are pure 'absolute' music and their symphonies are not. I am not visited by images of Finland when I hear them (perhaps because I have never been there). Still less do they feature outpourings from the soul and whatnot as above. They stay within the bounds of pure 'absolute' music, if 'bounds' is the right word, which I doubt. Absolute music is an infinite universe in its own right, and I hear these four symphonies as the successors to the four symphonies of Brahms in revealing what it can achieve.
If that's how I conceptualise them, then obviously that is also how I listen to these performances. In fact I have owned them on LP for a good many years, but I greatly welcome this economically-priced twin-cd set, which has the great Tapiola thrown in as well, and also The Swan of Tuonela in case anyone wants that. There has been some doctoring of the sound in the process, and you can hear it right at the start. The first note in the basses of symphony # 4 is marked fortissimo, sure, but it does not sound like this from Beecham or Berglund, nor indeed from Uncle Herbert himself on vinyl. I almost thought I must have put on the Brahms D minor concerto by mistake for a moment. Any remaining suggestions of this movement's origins as a string quartet (very marked from Beecham) are completely obliterated, and this fullness of tone pervades the set. The slow movement of # 4 is eloquently handled by Karajan, desolate and comfortless in its opening pages. However as the movement goes on there are sequences for full orchestra, and I shall need more hearings to convince myself that the ripe sound of these really suits the general expression. The start of # 5 is 'homogenised' and smoothed over as before, but the very end of the work starts to put strain on my sense of what kind of music this is. Great technicolour tone certainly, but giving me an uncomfortable sense of an MGM blockbuster.
I think, really, I had better assess this set from two distinct viewpoints, one addressed to Karajan's faithful who will likely not brook much fault-finding, and the other for those who think and feel along anything like the lines I do. From a box-ticking point of view I guess most of the boxes get ticked. This is the great Berlin Phil, and we know how they can play. The sound is excellent of its type, and I may have managed to give some idea of that. Karajan is fully in touch with the idiom of this composer, and he was undoubtedly in many ways the leading conductor of his era. My own slight problem is with where he was leading us to. Even when I was young I thought him a bit of a media maestro, with his speedboats, fast cars, glamorous women and whatnot, especially whatnot I dare say. To this day I can never get out of my mind Beecham's immortal 2-edged gibe 'a kind of musical Malcolm Sargent', and although I find any amount to admire and enjoy in these accounts, my recollection reverts enviously to the performances I have from Beecham himself, and not only Beecham either but also Kajanus between the wars in classic accounts that still manage to sound surprisingly well. Karajan set very high standards, but it was a little too standardised for my own liking.
Symphonies 6 and 7 come off very well (so do 4 and 5, come to that, in case I seem to have hinted otherwise.) In #6 the characteristic `pale' tone is caught exactly, and the speeds are reasonable, much like Berglund's. I mention that point because my collection also includes a classic Finnish account from Schneevoigt in the 1930's that manages to lop 5 minutes off Karajan's timing. That, in a work lasting distinctly less than half an hour, is quite a bit of lopping. With # 7 Karajan excels himself in my own favourite sequence, the marvellous stretch of total euphony that begins after about 2 and ½ minutes and lasts for about 3 more, finally ushering in the solemn trombone theme with an effect like revealing some Holy Grail. This was around 1920, yet here for a few precious moments is the very tone of Beethoven's Lydian Song bestowed on us again.
In The Swan of Tuonela I suppose I can recommend this performance to anyone able to endure the piece. Tapiola is another matter, and to my Category A Karajan devotees I can give the account something like full marks. To my Category B fellow-curmudgeons I have to whisper that it is not in the league of Beecham or Kajanus. And speaking of Kajanus, try to hear how he handles the first movement of # 5, with its sense of low rainclouds scudding across the sky and the wonderful morphing of the first section into the second, the sequence that gave Sibelius more trouble than anything else in his published output.
5 quite honest stars from one point of view, because my own slant on all this is not one that I demand agreement with. However there are heavenly spheres within spheres.
If that's how I conceptualise them, then obviously that is also how I listen to these performances. In fact I have owned them on LP for a good many years, but I greatly welcome this economically-priced twin-cd set, which has the great Tapiola thrown in as well, and also The Swan of Tuonela in case anyone wants that. There has been some doctoring of the sound in the process, and you can hear it right at the start. The first note in the basses of symphony # 4 is marked fortissimo, sure, but it does not sound like this from Beecham or Berglund, nor indeed from Uncle Herbert himself on vinyl. I almost thought I must have put on the Brahms D minor concerto by mistake for a moment. Any remaining suggestions of this movement's origins as a string quartet (very marked from Beecham) are completely obliterated, and this fullness of tone pervades the set. The slow movement of # 4 is eloquently handled by Karajan, desolate and comfortless in its opening pages. However as the movement goes on there are sequences for full orchestra, and I shall need more hearings to convince myself that the ripe sound of these really suits the general expression. The start of # 5 is 'homogenised' and smoothed over as before, but the very end of the work starts to put strain on my sense of what kind of music this is. Great technicolour tone certainly, but giving me an uncomfortable sense of an MGM blockbuster.
I think, really, I had better assess this set from two distinct viewpoints, one addressed to Karajan's faithful who will likely not brook much fault-finding, and the other for those who think and feel along anything like the lines I do. From a box-ticking point of view I guess most of the boxes get ticked. This is the great Berlin Phil, and we know how they can play. The sound is excellent of its type, and I may have managed to give some idea of that. Karajan is fully in touch with the idiom of this composer, and he was undoubtedly in many ways the leading conductor of his era. My own slight problem is with where he was leading us to. Even when I was young I thought him a bit of a media maestro, with his speedboats, fast cars, glamorous women and whatnot, especially whatnot I dare say. To this day I can never get out of my mind Beecham's immortal 2-edged gibe 'a kind of musical Malcolm Sargent', and although I find any amount to admire and enjoy in these accounts, my recollection reverts enviously to the performances I have from Beecham himself, and not only Beecham either but also Kajanus between the wars in classic accounts that still manage to sound surprisingly well. Karajan set very high standards, but it was a little too standardised for my own liking.
Symphonies 6 and 7 come off very well (so do 4 and 5, come to that, in case I seem to have hinted otherwise.) In #6 the characteristic `pale' tone is caught exactly, and the speeds are reasonable, much like Berglund's. I mention that point because my collection also includes a classic Finnish account from Schneevoigt in the 1930's that manages to lop 5 minutes off Karajan's timing. That, in a work lasting distinctly less than half an hour, is quite a bit of lopping. With # 7 Karajan excels himself in my own favourite sequence, the marvellous stretch of total euphony that begins after about 2 and ½ minutes and lasts for about 3 more, finally ushering in the solemn trombone theme with an effect like revealing some Holy Grail. This was around 1920, yet here for a few precious moments is the very tone of Beethoven's Lydian Song bestowed on us again.
In The Swan of Tuonela I suppose I can recommend this performance to anyone able to endure the piece. Tapiola is another matter, and to my Category A Karajan devotees I can give the account something like full marks. To my Category B fellow-curmudgeons I have to whisper that it is not in the league of Beecham or Kajanus. And speaking of Kajanus, try to hear how he handles the first movement of # 5, with its sense of low rainclouds scudding across the sky and the wonderful morphing of the first section into the second, the sequence that gave Sibelius more trouble than anything else in his published output.
5 quite honest stars from one point of view, because my own slant on all this is not one that I demand agreement with. However there are heavenly spheres within spheres.