Yo-Yo Ma (马友友) & Kathryn Stott – Songs from the Arc of (2015) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

规格：19首
流派：古典
发布：2015-09-25
公司：索尼音乐娱乐

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《生命之歌》是享誉世界的大提琴家马友友与钢琴家凯瑟琳•斯托特在合作三十周年之际携手奉上的音乐盛宴。专辑第一首与最后一首曲目都是乐迷挚爱的经典作品《圣母颂》，开头是巴赫/古诺版高昂、灿烂的改编版本，象征生命的起源，结尾则是舒伯特宁静、深沉的版本，象征生命的圆满轮回。专辑还包括了乐迷们耳熟能详的勃拉姆斯《摇篮曲》、德沃夏克《母亲教我的歌》、盖德《妒火探戈》、圣-桑《天鹅湖》等作品。马友友希望通过《生命之歌》来邀请听众聆听、感悟生命的旅程。

Longtime friends, cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott, create a unique classical music experience with their new recording, Songs from the Arc of Life. The album includes pieces they have frequently performed but never recorded, as well as a handful of discoveries. Songs from the Arc of Life begins and ends with two, much-beloved settings of the traditional “Ave Maria,” opening with the soaring, radiant Bach/Gounod arrangement and closing with Schubert’s more serene, contemplative version. In between is a remarkable spectrum of music that includes such enduring favorites as Brahms’ “Lullaby,” Dvorák’s “Songs My Mother Taught Me,” Elgar’s “Salut d’amour,” Gade’s “Jalousie” and Saint-Saëns’ “The Swan,” as well as richly evocative works by Debussy, Delius, Fauré, Gershwin, Grieg, Kriesler, Messaien, Schumann, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky. Ma and Stott also include a haunting piece by the contemporary composer Giovanni Sollima, a friend and colleague of both artists.

Here’s a recording that amply demonstrates why Yo-Yo Ma has reached perhaps a wider public than any other serious classical musician. Over the course of his career he has vastly expanded the classical repertory while still staying true to its core. There has been a profound idealism, a high-mindedness, to what he does, combined with an ability to reach ordinary listeners that the greats of the past often mastered, but that is a rare commodity these days. He has rarely recorded short crowd-pleasers and it is typical of his genius that now, when he does so, he does it in an entirely compelling way. The core of the program consists of well-loved classical tunes, including one of the best-loved of all, the Bach-Gounod Ave Maria. But Ma varies the concept in two ways. The first has to do with the explicit program, depicting the “arc of life.” The pieces proceed from childhood to youth, adulthood, and finally “beau soir” and death, and the whole thing is nicely explored in the notes in the form of a conversation between Ma and his longtime accompanist Kathryn Stott. They make these rather generic pieces seem like the most personal thing in the world. Then, on top of this, Ma and Stott pick some pieces that aren’t common encores at all, such as the “Louange à l’éternité de Jésus,” from the Quartet for the end of time. These are exceptionally well chosen to modulate the moods of the arc of life, and by the final group of pieces even the skeptical may well find themselves hypnotized. Throw in superb sound from perhaps the premier American recording venue, Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts, and you have an exceptional package that should rightly put Ma and Stott back at the top of the charts. — AllMusic Review by James Manheim

Tracklist:

1 – Ave Maria
2 – Lullaby (Wiegenlied, Op – 49, No – 4)
3 – Songs My Mother Taught Me (from “Gypsy Songs”, Op – 55, No – 4)
4 – Papillon, Op – 77
5 – Tango Jalousie
6 – I – Vanitas vanitatum (from “Five Pieces in the Popular Style”, Op – 102)
7 – Was it a Dream?, Op – 37, No – 4
8 – Après un rêve, Op – 7, No – 1
9 – Salut d’Amour, Op – 12
10 – Prelude No – 1 (from “Three Preludes”)
11 – Romance for Cello and Piano
12 – La Gitana
13 – Il bell’Antonio, Tema III
14 – The Swan (from “Carnival of the Animals”)
15 – The Wounded Heart, Op – 34, No – 1 (from “Elegiac Melodies”)
16 – Valse Sentimentale, Op – 51, No – 6
17 – Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus (from “Quartet for the End of Time”)
18 – Beau Soir
19 – Ave Maria, Op – 52, No – 6 (Ellens Gesang III from “Ein Fräulein vom See”)