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专辑中文名: 圣桑：第3号小提琴协奏曲、葛利格：钢琴协奏曲 专辑英文名: Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No 3 / Greig: Piano 歌手: Julia Fischer 资源格式: DVDRip 发行时间: 2010年1月 地区: 德国 语言: 英语 简介:
引用 New York Times Julia Fischer in her other guise as a pianist. By ANTHONY TOMMASINI Published: October 29, 2010 FOR a demonstration of comprehensive musicianship and instrumental mastery, few artists have topped the performance that the German violinist Julia Fischer gave at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt on Jan. 1, 2008. Ms. Fischer, then 24, played a dazzling account of Saint-Sa?ns’s Violin Concerto No. 3 with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, conducted by the inventive composer Matthias Pintscher. What made the concert momentous was that after intermission Ms. Fischer returned as a pianist and gave an accomplished, beautifully personal performance of Grieg’s Piano Concerto. Ms. Fischer has played the piano along with the violin since childhood, though mostly for her own pleasure. She had never before put her skills as a pianist on public display like this. Now Decca has released a DVD of the concert. Ms. Fischer’s achievement here places her in select company. Long ago it was common for musicians to be trained on more than one instrument, though even then most performers eventually made a choice. Mozart could have had a dual career playing piano and violin. But from his early 20s he typically played the violin (and the viola, which he loved) in chamber music sessions, while the piano was his calling card on the concert stage. Of course Mozart had other things to keep him busy. More recently many performers have played secondary instruments on the side, but few have played more than one in public. The colossal cellist Mstislav Rostropovich sometimes accompanied his wife, the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, at the piano. Their specialty was Mussorgsky’s cycle “Songs and Dances of Death.” Still, as a pianist Rostropovich mostly played the song repertory, not the Brahms concertos. Quite a few top-notch conductors have been active pianists, including Michael Tilson Thomas and James Levine. Leonard Bernstein made some wonderful recordings of Mozart piano concertos, Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” Schumann’s Piano Quintet and other works. The formidable British composer Thomas Adès, a skilled conductor, is an excellent pianist who gave one of the year’s most imaginative recitals this spring at Carnegie Hall. Yet with all due respect to the technical demands of conducting, most maestros would concede that this lofty art does not require the kind of specialized skill needed to play an instrument. Some great singers first got into music through playing an instrument. The beloved mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, who died in 2006, was a successful violist when, at 26, she began studying voice. And her incomparable singing was like an extension of her viola playing in its directness and elegance. At one time conservatories expected instrumentalists to develop proficiency in a secondary instrument, though most institutions seem to have dropped this requirement. Even so, all it meant was that a clarinetist had to be able to play, say, a Bach invention on the piano, not the Grieg concerto. To play a second instrument at a high level, as Ms. Fischer does, demands impressive versatility. Growing up in Munich, Ms. Fischer was first drawn to the piano, as she explains in an interview on the DVD. But her mother, a pianist, and her older brother had first dibs on the piano in the house. Her mother, thinking it might be nice to have a violinist in the family, encouraged her to take violin lessons too. When, at 12, Ms. Fischer won the Menuhin Competition her path seemed clear: she was a violinist. The idea of performing the Grieg concerto arose in 2006. It is a work Ms. Fischer grew to love as a child from listening to a recording by Sviatoslav Richter. For nearly two years she fit in as much piano practicing as she could while continuing to play some 90 concerts a year as a violinist. She was careful, she explains in the interview, not to strain her hands by playing the piano too much or too strenuously. The piano requires more physical strength, she says, and leaves her feeling less flexible. She went forward with the plan to play the Grieg with the hope, she says, that the audience members, the players of the youth orchestra (ages 18 to 28) and Mr. Pintscher (who has written a violin concerto for her) would “forgive my mistakes.” She does not make many in the honest and articulate performance captured here. Cascades of descending double thirds and bursts of double octaves are deftly rendered. The roiling first-movement cadenza is both poised and impassioned. That she is used to spinning melodies on a violin comes through in the poignant way she shapes ruminative solo lines in the slow movement. She brings punchy crispness and fiery excitement to the finale. Though she has received other offers to perform as a pianist (the conductor Yakov Kreizberg, with whom she has recorded several violin concertos, wants her to play Mozart piano concertos with him), Ms. Fischer has so far declined. Besides her career as a violinist, she is a professor at a college of music in Frankfurt and the mother of a 1-year-old son. Today, at 27, when she plays music for pleasure at her home near Munich, she always plays the piano. If Ms. Fischer does not play the piano in public again, at least she has had this triumph. On the DVD, during the Grieg cadenza, a violist from the orchestra can be seen looking in awe at Ms. Fischer. These young musicians know how hard it is to play just one instrument, let alone two. http://www./2010/10/31/arts/mus...tml?_r=0 引用 This DVD features Julia Fischer performing Saint-Saens' Violin Concerto no. 3 as well as Grieg's Piano Concerto on the same concert. Filmed live on New Year's Day 2008, this concert marked the professional debut of Julia Fischer as a concert pianist. In his review of this concert Arno Widmann of the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper described the atmosphere in the concert hall: "The excitement of the audience was palpable. After all, everyone was aware that only two extremes were possible: either this would turn out to be the total disgrace of one of the greatest living violinists; or it would mark the triumphant birth of a new pianist. From the beginning of the Adagio of the Grieg piano concerto, everyone present knew they were witnessing the overwhelming triumph of Julia Fischer." Production Engineer: Ralf Happel Recording Engineer: Christian Feldgen Assistant Engineers: Julia Havenstein, Michael Nitschke Sound Editing: Caroline Siegers Sound Mix & Audio Producer: Peter Hecker TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS: Menus: English Picture Format: 16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen Region Code: 0 (worldwide) DVD Format: NTSC Duration: 62 mins (concert); 35 mins (interview) Sound: 1 LPCM Stereo, 2 DTS 5.1 Surround (concert) Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Chinese (interview) R E V I E W: SAINT-SA?NS Violin Concerto No. 3. GRIEG Piano Concerto · Julia Fischer (vn, pn); Matthias Pintscher, cond; Junge Deutsche P · DECCA 074 3344 (DVD: 61:02 Text and Translation) & Julia Fischer—Two Musical Worlds (47:50) Cory Cerovsek, prodigious violinist, pianist, and mathematician, would play a violin concerto and a piano concerto on the same program (he didn’t, so far as I know, solve equations while doing so). Julia Fischer, by way of comparison, has only two arrows in her quiver. And in her program from January 2008 with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie she lets them both fly, playing Saint-Sa?ns’s Third Violin Concerto and following with Grieg’s Piano Concerto after the intermission. Heifetz, Kreisler, and Grumiaux also played both instruments—reportedly well in the first two instances (recordings exist of both, but not playing repertoire) and demonstrably in recordings in the third (Grumiaux accompanied his own playing of violin sonatas by Mozart and Brahms). Did Grumiaux’s versatility raise him to a higher level in our estimation than Heifetz or Kreisler? Does Fischer’s? In Saint-Sa?ns’s concerto, Fischer strops a sharp edge on the technical passages—occasionally, perhaps, to the point of brittleness—an impression reinforced by the cleanliness of the recorded sound (of both soloist and orchestra); almost clinical playing by the ensemble; the somewhat edgy tone of Fischer’s violin, tightly wound rather than bright in the middle registers and somewhat hoarse rather than lush on the G string; and her rapid, rather narrow vibrato. Fischer does vary the speed of that vibrato, slowing it down in the central movement, and even, here and there, stopping altogether, although she doesn’t seem to be striving for (or achieving) an effect so eldritch as Anne-Sophie Mutter’s in Beethoven’s works. In the second movement, she keeps the passages moving, without stopping to smell the flowers (and not offering them for her listeners’ olfactory pleasure, either). Listeners who admire Grumiaux’s warmth and Milstein’s nobility in this Andantino may reflect that while its atmosphere has been likened to that of a boat floating amid the reflected sunshine of a lake, Fischer’s reading recalls more vividly a motorboat in the same setting. Just before the harmonics that bring the movement to a close, Fischer winds down her vibrato to a virtual standstill (although she vibrates on the final harmonics themselves). Fischer seems to throw the bow onto the strings and tosses her body backward, creating a very different visual impression than those of, say, Heifetz, Milstein, and Oistrakh (you could add the next generation, Menuhin and Ricci). Her playing seems most expressive in moments like the third movement’s chorale (of which the orchestra also gives a dynamically nuanced account). The recorded sound (offering DTS and LPCM 48 kH as choices) places her slightly forward. Although Fischer looks a bit stiff at the keyboard, she establishes her command as soloist in the first movement’s opening measures. And she warms to the second theme’s expressivity—lingering perhaps more lovingly here than at any point in the violin concerto. She’s sonorous in the cadenza, but on the whole, perhaps, less flamboyant—and even a bit less dramatic—as a pianist than as a violinist. In the second movement, neither she nor the orchestra generate a particularly rich atmosphere, although she communicates the rhythmic vitality of the finale’s first thematic statement. Those who wonder whether her piano playing has a sense of largeness and suppleness or merely seems clean and antiseptic might benefit from taking a further leap and comparing the violin playing to the piano playing: One sheds light on the other. Would a pianist at this level who hadn’t achieved a reputation as a violinist have been offered the opportunity to record Grieg’s Concerto? Jack Benny played the violin, and his celebrity (coupled of course with his generosity in raising money for struggling orchestras) led to bookings. But nobody, least of all he himself, pretended that he was playing well. It was a stunt. In the interview, Fischer remarks—perhaps tellingly—that when she wants to play for pleasure, she plays the piano, which she began practicing again in earnest several years ago. She explains the choice of repertoire and remarks on the differences in playing the two instruments (the piano, she maintains, demands greater strength but leads to less flexibility). She worries aloud about “wrecking” her hands. She also notes the different way in which the violin and piano interact with the orchestra. Then she begins to ponder imponderables like spirituality, education, home, and future. Clips show her teaching the last measures of Kreisler’s Praeludium and Allegro and Saint-Sa?ns’s Havanaise. A demonstration of sublime inspiration or a stunt? In the course of the interview, Fischer suggests that her talent isn’t unnatural but a natural product of work and experience. So much, I guess, for sublime inspiration. Recommended most strongly to those who find this kind of versatility fascinating and appealing; recommended less strongly—though still recommended—to those who find it merely tolerable. 
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