Benjamin Grosvenor -《蓝色狂想曲》(Rhapsody In Blue)[24bits 96KHz][FLAC]

介绍

专辑英文名: Rhapsody In Blue

专辑中文名: 蓝色狂想曲

艺术家:  Benjamin Grosvenor

古典类型: 全集作品

资源格式: FLAC

艺术家:  Benjamin Grosvenor

版本: [24bits 96KHz]

发行时间: 2013年02月15日

地区:  美国

语言:  英语


专辑介绍:

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Rhapsody in Blue
葛罗斯文诺，钢琴 / 朱德指挥皇家利物浦爱乐管弦乐团
Benjamin Grosvenor, Piano / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, James Judd

今年才21岁的Benjamin Grosvenor，脸上不脱稚气。不过若论在公眾场合表演的「年资」，他已可取「老人金牌」。早於11岁时，他在BBC青年音乐家比赛（键盘组）胜出，成为全英街知巷闻的孩子。2011年被Decca罗致，成为旗下最年轻音乐家。这位三个月前才不用母亲陪伴、独自周围飞演出的大男孩，谈起钢琴却有板有眼，成熟非常。

YouTube上仍可找到Grosvenor十年前参加比赛的片段，当时他才刚升中。「最初只为取得更多经验而参赛。家里没有人觉得我可过到第一round的！」回看那个比赛，Grosvenor觉得是很好磨练，「每个回合都要学新乐曲。过程中，I grew a lot as a pianist。」

同年在这比赛脱颖而出的还有Nicola Benedetti，如今两人都成了英国古典乐坛新宠。成名早可以是blessing也可以是诅咒，难得Grosvenor锋芒大露后仍谦逊学艺，仅作有限度演出（包括13岁在Carnegie Hall演出，16岁与英国Philharmonia合作），直至19岁才应BBC逍遥音乐节之邀，与BBC交响乐团演出首夜音乐会（First Night of the Proms），弹李斯特协奏曲，成为Proms史上最年轻首夜音乐家。他曾跟不少知名乐团合作，包括三藩市交响乐团、克里夫兰乐团等，近年更横扫多个古典乐坛奖项，包括《Gramophone》年度青年艺术家奖。

说话带浓重英国腔的Grosvenor，说他的啟蒙老师是母亲，十岁前都跟她学琴。「我有四个哥哥，我排行最细。母亲是钢琴老师，她安排我们每人在五、六岁时开始学一种乐器。四个哥哥学了小提琴、小号、结他等，只有我选择钢琴。」但他最初对练琴提不起兴趣，「直至知道有同学仔也在学琴，因不想弹得比他差，才认真练起来。」四个哥哥最后都没走上专业音乐家之路，他却因好胜心强而越练越好，越好越爱弹。

今年二月他首度来港，和小交合作，演出英国作曲家布列顿（Benjamin Britten）的钢琴协奏曲。

作曲家之中，布列顿不算「红」，但去年正好是其百周年诞辰，Grosvenor因此弹了很多遍这首本名曲。「布列顿是很棒的钢琴家，创作此曲时很年轻（25岁），所以它有种youthful和vibrance特质。它很容易入口，据我经验，观眾都能明白它。」这首1938年创作的作品，的确跟别的协奏曲大相逕庭，首乐章是充满能量、体现钢琴敲击个性的Toccata（意大利文touched的意思）。Grosvenor和小交的演出也没令人失望，观眾全程都血脉沸腾。

Grosvenor的唱片，选曲多元化，除了Chopin和Liszt等必备曲目，还有Gershwin懒洋洋的、爵士味浓郁的《Rhapsody in Blue》，一问之下才知道他和爵士向来投缘，「十岁时，我每星期天都在家乡一间餐厅弹琴。那时弹不少jazz，如Gerswhin和英国的Billy Mayerl。」后者是爱以jazz style创作的当代英国作曲家。他又自觉幸运，「钢琴作品有很多，穷一生都弹不完。」他特别喜欢弹被忽略的作品，譬如最近便演奏了不见经传的西班牙作曲家Frederic Mompou的作品，「以前弹过Granados和Albeniz，对西班牙钢琴音乐产生兴趣，於是便去查音乐字典，在『西班牙作曲家』一栏找到Mompou这名字。我发现他有很独特的voice，予人很亲暱的西班牙vision。他的音乐deserves to be heard。」

喜好眾多，但Grosvenor坦言流行曲不是他那杯茶。「自己少听，但因四哥Jonathan患唐氏综合症，常在家里播流行曲，所以我也听过不少。我想，我喜欢较complex的音乐。当然流行曲有时也做得到，我小时候便很迷Queen！」他的Blackberry里，还有Eric Clapton的unplugged呢。(U Magazine，2014年4月)

Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: James Judd
Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns, Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
Audio CD (February 5, 2013)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Decca Records
ASIN: B0086ALXQG

John Evans gives a five-star verdict to young and brilliant British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor s first concertos album.

Label: Decca Music Group Ltd.

One of the world’s most distinctive and sensitive pianists (20-year-old Essex-born Benjamin Grosvenor), three of music’s most startlingly inventive composers (Ravel, Saint-Saëns and Gershwin) and one of Britain’s finest orchestras (the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic conducted by James Judd) at the top of its game. What’s not to like? How about the design of the album cover? The dead-pan, tweed-suited Ben Grosvenor conveys nothing of the must-hear brilliance of this disc.

This is the young pianist’s first concerto album, one that, despite his Little Lord Fauntleroy apparel, shows Grosvenor perfectly in touch with his lighter, jazzier side. First up is Saint-Saëns’s highly charged Piano Concerto No.2, a work that mixes the Gothic with the fairground. Next, Godowsky’s exquisite solo piano arrangement of Saint-Saëns’s The Swan , busy with burbling chromaticisms under the sublime melody. Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G follows next, an exotic, jazz-coloured confection with a gossamer-light second movement. It’s separated from Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, here performed in the rarely heard, pared-down arrangement made for the Paul Whiteman band, by Prelude in A minor, a piano piece which that quiet man of jazz piano, Bill Evans, could have written but which Ravel composed as a sight-reading test for his Paris Conservatoire students. Grosvenor finishes with Percy Grainger’s charming arrangement of Gershwin’s Love Walked In .

The young pianist is one of the freshest musical voices we’ve heard in a long time – a soloist sensitive to every nuance in the music
The young pianist is one of the freshest musical voices we’ve heard in a long time – a soloist sensitive to every nuance in the music, controlled but supple, one who plays as he breathes and produces a tone all his own. But this disc shows him to be a great ensemble player, too. The Saint-Saëns sounds like a showpiece but it’s a complex work full of delicate interplay between soloist and orchestra and Grosvenor thrives on it. In this regard, the Ravel sorts the men from the boys. Happily, Grosvenor’s one of the former. The RLPO soloists, in particular the brass and woodwind, are on sparkling form. I’ve never heard the work better served or more clearly recorded. And I’ve never heard the rising clarinet solo that announces the Gershwin played so confidently and evocatively. We’re in 1920s Noo Yawk, no mistake. The pared down band, including banjo, is with Grosvenor note for note. Bet Gershwin didn’t play it in a tweed suit.

Artists: Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/James Judd

John Evans is the former editor of Classic FM magazine and trained as a pianist at the Royal Northern College of Music.

01. Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto no.2 in G minor, op.22 - 1. Allegro sostenuto [0:10:25.22]
02. Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto no.2 in G minor, op.22 - 2. Allegro scherzando [0:05:37.35]
03. Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto no.2 in G minor, op.22 - 3. Presto [0:06:06.63]
04. Saint-Saëns: The Swan (transc. Godowsky) [0:02:31.43]
05. Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major - 1. Allegramente [0:08:25.61]
06. Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major - 2. Adagio assai [0:08:18.40]
07. Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major - 3. Presto [0:04:00.59]
08. Ravel: Prélude in A minor (1913) [0:01:27.18]
09. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (original jazz band version by Ferde Grofé) [0:14:50.00]
10. Gershwin: Love Walked In (transc. Percy Grainger) [0:03:59.52]

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)

Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.22
[1] 1. Andante sostenuto [10:25]
[2] 2. Allegro scherzando [5:37]
[3] 3. Presto [6:07]
Benjamin Grosvenor, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, James Judd

The Carnival of the Animals (Grande Fantaisie Zoölogique)
[4] The Swan (Arr. Godowsky) [2:32]
Benjamin Grosvenor

Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937)

Piano Concerto in G
[5] 1. Allegramente [8:26]
[6] 2. Adagio assai [8:19]
[7] 3. Presto [4:01]
Benjamin Grosvenor, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, James Judd

[8] Prelude In A Minor [1:27]
Benjamin Grosvenor

George Gershwin (1898 - 1937)

[9] Rhapsody In Blue [14:50]
Benjamin Grosvenor, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, James Judd

George Gershwin (1898 - 1937), Ira Gershwin (1896 - 1983)

[10] Love Walked In [4:00]
Benjamin Grosvenor

Total Playing Time [1:05:44]