作曲家： Richard Wagner（德國，arr Stokowski）
曲目：Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla; Tristan und Isolde Symphonic Synthesis; Parsifal Symphonic Synthesis from Act 3; Magic Fire Music; The Ride of the Valkyries
指揮：José Serebrier
樂團：伯恩茅斯交響樂團 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
發行公司：Naxos(台灣金革代理 )
片數：1張
價位：低價位
英國留聲機雜誌評論摘要：
It would be hard to imagine a more sumptuous disc. Stokowski, in these “symphonic syntheses”, enhances Wagner’s already opulent orchestration with shrewdly added instrumental lines and with the vocal parts usually given to the strings. Then at times he thins the orchestration down for more transparent textures. José Serebrier conducts the Bournemouth SO in thrilling performances, passionate in a genuinely Stokowskian manner and treated to orchestral sound of demonstration quality.
Stokowski’s aim was to provide more satisfying orchestral items in concerts than the popular “bleeding chunks”. So in the most ambitious item, on Tristan, we have between the Prelude and Liebestod a rich orchestral version of the Love Duet. Where the end of the duet builds up to that chilling interruption from King Marke, Stokowski has it lead seamlessly into the equivalent passage in the Liebestod. It works superbly.
The selection starts excitingly with the Entry of the Gods into Valhalla and it is good to find Serebrier splendidly adding an anvil when Donner brings his hammer down. The Parsifal synthesis is limited to music from Act 3, thus ignoring the Good Friday Music. From Die Walküre comes the Magic Fire Music and, most excitingly, the Ride of the Valkyries. This is Naxos’s fourth Stokowski disc and is the finest yet.（Gramophone Awards 2007 留聲機大獎）
Classics Today網站評價：9/9
摘要：
José Serebrier continues his series of Stokowski transcriptions with this all-Wagner program. The outstanding item is the "Symphonic Synthesis" from Tristan and Isolde, which consists of the Liebesnacht sandwiched in between the more familiar Prelude and Liebestodt. Serebrier continues to amaze in his ability to conjure a remarkably lush string tone from his Bournemouth forces, and the performance really does capture that Stokowskian sheen more successfully than any other series dedicated to the maestro's transcriptions (think Bamert on Chandos, for example).
But if Serebrier does better than most of the modern competition, he still has Stokowski himself to contend with. The Entry of the Gods into Valhalla faces stiff competition from Stokowski's Phase 4 Decca version, while the Magic Fire Music (absent Wotan's Farewell) never has been better than in Stoki's demented Everest rendition (now available from Arkivmusic.com "on demand"). In both cases Serebrier misses some of the glitz and glamour, especially from the harps, despite the big, fat sonority of the brass section. In the "Entry" he's also fractionally too slow.
Stoki's Parsifal Act 3 Symphonic Synthesis also can be found on the same Everest disc with the Magic Fire Music, but here Serebrier is every bit as persuasive, and much more naturally recorded. There are no "special effects" in this piece, and so we can appreciate all the more just how successfully these Bournemouth players recapture Stokowski's unique timbral vocabulary. So although this latest release doesn't quite rise to the exalted level of its predecessors, it's still extremely fine, and further evidence of the power the conductor has over the sound the orchestra makes. It's common today to hear people complain that orchestras all sound more or less the same, but as Serebrier makes clear, so do conductors, and they have less excuse.
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曲目：Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla; Tristan und Isolde Symphonic Synthesis; Parsifal Symphonic Synthesis from Act 3; Magic Fire Music; The Ride of the Valkyries
指揮：José Serebrier
樂團：伯恩茅斯交響樂團 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
發行公司：Naxos(台灣金革代理 )
片數：1張
價位：低價位
英國留聲機雜誌評論摘要：
It would be hard to imagine a more sumptuous disc. Stokowski, in these “symphonic syntheses”, enhances Wagner’s already opulent orchestration with shrewdly added instrumental lines and with the vocal parts usually given to the strings. Then at times he thins the orchestration down for more transparent textures. José Serebrier conducts the Bournemouth SO in thrilling performances, passionate in a genuinely Stokowskian manner and treated to orchestral sound of demonstration quality.
Stokowski’s aim was to provide more satisfying orchestral items in concerts than the popular “bleeding chunks”. So in the most ambitious item, on Tristan, we have between the Prelude and Liebestod a rich orchestral version of the Love Duet. Where the end of the duet builds up to that chilling interruption from King Marke, Stokowski has it lead seamlessly into the equivalent passage in the Liebestod. It works superbly.
The selection starts excitingly with the Entry of the Gods into Valhalla and it is good to find Serebrier splendidly adding an anvil when Donner brings his hammer down. The Parsifal synthesis is limited to music from Act 3, thus ignoring the Good Friday Music. From Die Walküre comes the Magic Fire Music and, most excitingly, the Ride of the Valkyries. This is Naxos’s fourth Stokowski disc and is the finest yet.（Gramophone Awards 2007 留聲機大獎）
Classics Today網站評價：9/9
摘要：
José Serebrier continues his series of Stokowski transcriptions with this all-Wagner program. The outstanding item is the "Symphonic Synthesis" from Tristan and Isolde, which consists of the Liebesnacht sandwiched in between the more familiar Prelude and Liebestodt. Serebrier continues to amaze in his ability to conjure a remarkably lush string tone from his Bournemouth forces, and the performance really does capture that Stokowskian sheen more successfully than any other series dedicated to the maestro's transcriptions (think Bamert on Chandos, for example).
But if Serebrier does better than most of the modern competition, he still has Stokowski himself to contend with. The Entry of the Gods into Valhalla faces stiff competition from Stokowski's Phase 4 Decca version, while the Magic Fire Music (absent Wotan's Farewell) never has been better than in Stoki's demented Everest rendition (now available from Arkivmusic.com "on demand"). In both cases Serebrier misses some of the glitz and glamour, especially from the harps, despite the big, fat sonority of the brass section. In the "Entry" he's also fractionally too slow.
Stoki's Parsifal Act 3 Symphonic Synthesis also can be found on the same Everest disc with the Magic Fire Music, but here Serebrier is every bit as persuasive, and much more naturally recorded. There are no "special effects" in this piece, and so we can appreciate all the more just how successfully these Bournemouth players recapture Stokowski's unique timbral vocabulary. So although this latest release doesn't quite rise to the exalted level of its predecessors, it's still extremely fine, and further evidence of the power the conductor has over the sound the orchestra makes. It's common today to hear people complain that orchestras all sound more or less the same, but as Serebrier makes clear, so do conductors, and they have less excuse.
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