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发表于 2003-9-14 23:22:59
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最初由 springson 发表
[B]不知道V兄是否听说过一个叫做亚历山大四重奏的组合?我曾经看到一套他们搞的贝多芬四重奏,也不贵,因为没听说过,后来还是没拿。 [/B]
Alexander String Quartet为ARTE NOVA公司录制的9张贝多芬弦乐四重奏全集CD我没有见到过,也没有听过。以ARTE NOVA旗下艺术家现有的水准来说,应该是值得一听的。如果今后见到ARTE NOVA的唱片,大部分都值得考虑,价廉物美,很多演奏经常会给你意想不到的惊喜。还有,ARTE NOVA还经常录制一些非常冷僻的曲目,有一些可以说是不二的版本。
这些是Alexander String Quartet自己的网站上转引的一些评价,或许有些参考价值。
The Alexander String Quartet's Beethoven
"The quartet manages to combine a robust, cohesive ensemble tone with a lively sense of color and a deep, unshakable poise. It was a performance in which the care that went into their preparation was completely subsumed in the conviction of the living moment. One could only agree with Yehudi Menuhin's unrestrained assessment: 'It was unbelievably good Beethoven-in conception, musicality, balance of voices, respect for the score, humor, pathos, emotional projection. There was absolutely nothing that was missing.' "
MUSICAL AMERICA
"The musicians' controlled exuberance was unflagging and consequently produced superlative accounts of Beethoven."
THE WASHINGTON POST
"The Alexander String Quartet, born in the 1980s, has developed a distinctive musical profile and bold performing style. In its concert Tuesday at Richardson Auditorium, the ensemble played an Old World program with a balance of nuance, intensity and style that some senior quartets could envy. Beethoven's Quartet in C major (Op. 59, No. 3) asked the riskiest comparisons with senior quartets, yet this performance needed no explanation. The second movement and the minuetto that follows were played to emphasize the almost hypnotic inner intensity of the music. The hush in the hall attested to the almost perfectly executed floating passage and its expressive strength."
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"Stunning Ensemble On the evidence of their Beethoven Op. 59, No. 2, this is a group whose synthesis of strongly characterized individual voices is resilient enough to take inspiring risks, and sophisticated enough to see them through with imaginative sensitivity."
THE TIMES (London)
"The Alexanders chose Opus 59, No. 1 in E minor. They attained a rare sense of mystery and expectation in the elliptical moderations and silent bars of the first movement, summoned warmth and severity for the slow movement and a compelling gusto for the finale. Every change of tempo was geared perfectly to the dramatic implications of the music. The Alexander Quartet is destined for greatness."
THE GUARDIAN (London)
"The Alexander demonstrated a remarkable ability to sustain a long, slow line. ... 'Must it be?' was played with the necessary sense of inevitability that Beethoven's ringing, affirmative answer, both to the question, and to the contradictions of the human condition, 'It must be!' demands.
THE BUFFALO NEWS
"They played as a tight group, carefully responding to each other, balancing lines, mirroring attacks. At times, they were as ferociously impressive as a small group of precision fighter pilots going through aerial maneuvers at breakneck speeds."
LOS ANGELES TIMES
"I continue to be impressed by the Beethoven cycle by the Alexander String Quartet, founded in New York in 1981. [The Quartet No. 13 and Grosse Fuge] are played with impressive power and lyricism."
THE DENVER POST
"Every phrase and line, every textural and coloristic effect, every structural element, every sforzando, every legato, every hairpin dynamic shading, every articulation-in short, every musical detail-was performed so precisely, in so shapely a fashion, and in such perfect balance with every other detail, that I felt my mind irresistibly and uninterruptedly held deep inside the world of Beethoven's imagination, which was immensely enlarged-so to speak-from within."
THE SAN DIEGO READER
"Alexander is a Great Quartet The landslide winner: Beethoven. But for that, credit the Alexander Quartet as much as Beethoven himself. Here the group launched into the kind of passionate, hold-your-hats playing that invited comparisons to the great Budapest String Quartet, a Russian-émigré group which reigned for more that three decades till the mid-1960s. I haven't heard comparable electricity from anybody else in the intervening years, in a style where finesse is secondary to unbridled fury, force and velocity. It was the most exciting quartet experience sponsored by the San Jose Chamber Music Society for years. Their rhythm and speed were dazzling."
SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
"These musicians have a sophisticated grasp of quartet-playing. They perform with an in-built awareness of each colleague's line, in terms of both phrasing and colouring. Tones are blended, there is a delicate facility to the bowing and a unanimous ebb and flow to the delivery. They also have a sensitive ear for balance, gradating their sound-levels tactfully. Such general urbanity was much in evidence for Beethoven's overblown A major Quartet from his Opus 18. Most memorable for compositional quality was the Andante's charming Viennese mix of inwardness and self-confidence, but the Alexander's committed integrity of approach was a joy."
THE BIRMINGHAM POST (U.K.)
"The first 'Razoumovsky' Quartet by Beethoven had to show whether the standard in playing was accompanied by a highly developed standard in interpretation. Then: the unpretentious emergence of the instruments in the execution that illuminates the wonderful vocal texture; the extraordinarily played fugato; the anthem enhanced second theme in the exposition and even stronger, the repeat. How striking was the combination of the bizarre, almost expressionistic second movement with the melodic content! The powerful climax of the slow movement as well as the transition of the 'Russian' theme of the finale were very accurately constructed. Only very few groups play these classical highlights in such a rich and differentiated way."
TRIERISCHER VOLKSFREUND (Germany)
"And it's Beethoven who carries them to their maximum-literature more solid, loaded with the past as well as the future, with violence as well as tenderness. This work allows them to be in the very center of their sensitivity. Splendid sonorities from each player (the first violin with a marvelous purity of line responds to a superb cello), perfect balance of purpose, perfect communication in the group, technical clarity, and unusual intensity; the golden rules of the quartet are brought together to perfection. And along with this, intelligence to bring forth the magic. Beethoven has rarely been so cast with elegance, with density, and with fullness. An example of interpretation beyond what's in fashion, beyond musical egocentricity, in the very heart of a truth which flows from the mother spring."
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