Of all the conductors who have championed the music of the Strauss family with the Vienna Philharmonic, it is Clemens Krauss who was one of the greatest pioneers. He it was who conducted the first New Year’s Day concert in 1939, and continued to lead the occasion on each new year until his death in May 1954, but only beginning with the second half of that 1954 concert was the...(展开全部) Of all the conductors who have championed the music of the Strauss family with the Vienna Philharmonic, it is Clemens Krauss who was one of the greatest pioneers. He it was who conducted the first New Year’s Day concert in 1939, and continued to lead the occasion on each new year until his death in May 1954, but only beginning with the second half of that 1954 concert was the event recorded for commercial release. For each of the previous years, Krauss and the Vienna Philharmonic had gone into the studio during the summer to set down a mix of waltzes and polkas which would, when released shortly after the concert proper, make a memento of the occasion for its increasingly worldwide audience on radio. The various ‘New Year’s Concert’ albums are now presented together in a 2CD set. A new editorial note by the opera director and critic Mike Ashman gives context to the stupendous popularity of the Strauss family’s music, both in their time and ever since, to the all-too-short career of Krauss and to the tradition of the New Year concerts in Vienna. To open the set, the overtures to Die Fledermaus and Die Zigeunerbaron make enticing tasters for Krauss’s Decca studio recordings of both operettas, also reissued by Eloquence (ELQ4827379 and ELQ4827371). Most of the sweetest Straussian lollipops are here, such as the Blue Danube and the Radetzky March, but so too are lesser-known treasures such as Die Libelle (The Dragonfly) and the Vergnügungszug Polka: in their different ways both supreme examples of Viennese light music, and conducted by Krauss with a lightness of touch perhaps rivalled since only by Carlos Kleiber. As specialists in the idioms of ‘both’ Strausses – Richard and the Waltz King’s family – this pair of conductors was unique. Krauss himself was Austrian to the core, the son of a young Viennese court dancer and a banker well-connected at the Habsburg court. He had the unique lift of the waltz-rhythm at his command, and the unquestioned respect of the Vienna Philharmonic’s famously individualistic musicians, as these treasurable recordings demonstrate. ‘For those to whom The Blue Danube means something that you hear rushed through on the pier or in a café, this playing will be a revelation of sheer delight. Clemens Krauss does it all to perfection. It is good to have some less-known pieces … All ranges of brows, high to low, should have this record by them to restore spirits when in dumps.’ Gramophone, May 1954 (Third New Year’s Concert)
0 有用 Lefrançois 2020-10-26 14:11:29
VPO最后一任总监的施特劳斯自然独到，但瓷声瓷气录音里感受纯粹维也纳风情，未免有点吃力。弦乐过于纤细，高音甚至变形而尖锐，低音松弛迟缓。雄辩转录，无法改变先天不足。蝙蝠序曲第二主题格外柔美，这点吉普赛男爵上类似应用，但几首圆舞曲不太轻盈，显得笨重暮气些。反而简单波尔卡节奏与表情更为到位，玩笑波尔卡对音量强弱控制，淘气与幽默兼具。埃及人进行曲滑稽与雄壮并举，充满异域风情。晨报圆舞曲引子不规则节奏，维... VPO最后一任总监的施特劳斯自然独到，但瓷声瓷气录音里感受纯粹维也纳风情，未免有点吃力。弦乐过于纤细，高音甚至变形而尖锐，低音松弛迟缓。雄辩转录，无法改变先天不足。蝙蝠序曲第二主题格外柔美，这点吉普赛男爵上类似应用，但几首圆舞曲不太轻盈，显得笨重暮气些。反而简单波尔卡节奏与表情更为到位，玩笑波尔卡对音量强弱控制，淘气与幽默兼具。埃及人进行曲滑稽与雄壮并举，充满异域风情。晨报圆舞曲引子不规则节奏，维也纳独享。总体51年效果最佳，52年有点心不在焉，按部就班，比如蓝色多瑙河，录音与演绎并非达到预期，可能多年被雪藏的原因所在。 (展开)
0 有用 Brasidas 2018-04-22 18:24:26
感觉Preiser出的更加风骨卓绝
1 有用 施小马奇 2018-01-15 10:01:03
演是演的还不错 也有些那个时代的韵味和风骨……可是明明是录音室版本 拿出来充现场录音 雄辩系列不能这样骗钱吧！……礼节性不评分
1 有用 施小马奇 2018-01-15 10:01:03
演是演的还不错 也有些那个时代的韵味和风骨……可是明明是录音室版本 拿出来充现场录音 雄辩系列不能这样骗钱吧！……礼节性不评分
0 有用 Lefrançois 2020-10-26 14:11:29
VPO最后一任总监的施特劳斯自然独到，但瓷声瓷气录音里感受纯粹维也纳风情，未免有点吃力。弦乐过于纤细，高音甚至变形而尖锐，低音松弛迟缓。雄辩转录，无法改变先天不足。蝙蝠序曲第二主题格外柔美，这点吉普赛男爵上类似应用，但几首圆舞曲不太轻盈，显得笨重暮气些。反而简单波尔卡节奏与表情更为到位，玩笑波尔卡对音量强弱控制，淘气与幽默兼具。埃及人进行曲滑稽与雄壮并举，充满异域风情。晨报圆舞曲引子不规则节奏，维... VPO最后一任总监的施特劳斯自然独到，但瓷声瓷气录音里感受纯粹维也纳风情，未免有点吃力。弦乐过于纤细，高音甚至变形而尖锐，低音松弛迟缓。雄辩转录，无法改变先天不足。蝙蝠序曲第二主题格外柔美，这点吉普赛男爵上类似应用，但几首圆舞曲不太轻盈，显得笨重暮气些。反而简单波尔卡节奏与表情更为到位，玩笑波尔卡对音量强弱控制，淘气与幽默兼具。埃及人进行曲滑稽与雄壮并举，充满异域风情。晨报圆舞曲引子不规则节奏，维也纳独享。总体51年效果最佳，52年有点心不在焉，按部就班，比如蓝色多瑙河，录音与演绎并非达到预期，可能多年被雪藏的原因所在。 (展开)
0 有用 Brasidas 2018-04-22 18:24:26
感觉Preiser出的更加风骨卓绝