Herbert von Karajan -《奥芬巴赫：序曲》(Offenbach: Overtures)DG 400 044-2[MP3

专辑英文名: Offenbach: Overtures
专辑中文名: 奥芬巴赫：序曲
艺术家: Herbert von Karajan
资源格式: APE
发行时间: 1981年
地区: 德国
简介:


作曲：Jacques Offenbach 奥芬巴赫
指挥：Herbert von Karajan 卡拉扬
乐团：Berliner Philharmoniker 柏林爱乐
录音日期：1981
发行公司：DG
CD编号：STEREO 400 044-2
资源出处(Credit)：原发
专辑介绍：
OFFENBACH: OVERTURES
The period of Louis-Napoleon's Second Empire, from 1852 to 1870, was one of pleasure seeking and glamorous living for Parisian Society. In musical terms nobody reflected the high spirits of the time better than the German-born Jacques Offenbach. In the Exhibition summer of 1855 he opened a tiny theatre in the Champs-Elysées for the production of slight farcical one-act pieces, with a handful of performers, small orchestra and musical scores of some six or seven solos, duets and trios, often enlivened by parodies of operatic conventions or specific operatic successes of the time.
In 1858 Offenbach enlarged the scale of his entertainments with Orphée aux Enters. A satirical treatment of the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, it achieved musical immortality for the famous galop or can-can danced by the gods in hell. He developed the genre to its finest pitch with such operettas as La Belle HéIène (1864), which mock-ed the legend of Helen of Troy, Barbe-Bleue (1866), which did the same for Bluebeard and his many wives, and La Grande-Duchesse de Gerol-stein (1867), whose target was the army. The wit of their books and situations captivated an international public no less than the sparkle and tuneful-ness of their scores. Offenbach's success was such that he was also on occasions asked to provide works as light-hearted relief for the more august surroundings of the Opéra-Comique, as in Vert-Vert (1869), which takes its name from a pet parrot in a girls' boarding school. After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 Offenbach's frivolous entertainments no longer had the same hold on the public. Haunted by fears that his lighter works had no lasting value, he turned to the composition of a serious opera, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, built around the German story writer E.T.A. Hoffmann. Its fantastic elements and winning tunes have made it a lasting operatic favourite. The Barcarolle, its most celebrated number (recorded here in the purely instrumental version arranged by Manuel Rosenthal), so admirably evokes a picture of water lapping along Venice's Grand Canal that it may be a surprise to learn that its melody had already done service as a goblins' chorus in Offenbach's romantic opera Die Rhein-nixen, produced in Vienna in 1864. It was usually only in his later works and those for more prestigious theatres (as in Vert-Vert) that
Offenbach himself provided a fully-fledged over-ture. For his opéras bouffes a short, frothy intro-duction usually sufficed for his small theatre or-chestra. German audiences, however, expected something more substantial, and arrangers had to use various devices to meet the need. In Barbe-Bleue and La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein they expanded Offenbach's own introductions, ad-ding extra wind parts and interpolating additional melodies from the operetta. Elsewhere, extended new overtures were written using Offenbach's themes, as in the overture to La Belle Hélène (attributed to Edmund Haensch) and that to Or-phée aux Enters composed for the first Viennese production by Carl. Binder, a conducting colleague of Franz von Suppè - one can readily hear something of Suppè's style in this lively overture, which ends with the famous can-can.
作者：Andrew Lamb

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作曲家介绍：
奥芬巴赫(Jacques Offenbach，18191880)，德裔法国作曲家，大提琴演奏家。其父为科隆大教堂唱诗班领唱，奥芬巴赫18331837年就学于巴黎音乐学院，同时在喜歌剧院演奏大提琴。1853年起创作喜歌剧，18551861年任巴黎喜歌剧院经理，18731875年任巴黎娱乐剧院经理，共创作轻歌剧90部。奥芬巴赫的创作基本经历3个阶段：1.轻松俏皮充满讽刺幽默的作品阶段，代表作为《地狱中的奥菲欧》(作于1858年)。2.充满扦情的作品阶段，代表作为《美丽的海伦》(作于1864年)、《巴黎人的生活》(作于1866年)：3.正歌剧阶段，代表作为最后未完成的杰作《霍夫曼的故事》。
(林逸聪《音乐圣经》)
《音乐圣经》中提及的版本介绍：
1.卡拉扬指挥柏林爱乐乐团版，DG，CD编号400 044-2，这张唱片上收有《美丽的海伦》、《蓝胡子》、《热罗尔坦公爵夫人》、《地狱中的奥菲欧》、《霍夫曼的故事》序曲，《企鹅》评介三星保留一星。这里发布的为此版。
2.菲德勒指挥波士顿通俗乐队版，RCA，CD编号09026 61429-2。这张唱片除收有《美丽的海伦》、《热罗尔坦公爵夫人》、《地狱中的奥菲欧》、《霍夫曼的故事》等序曲外，另有选自奥芬巴赫芭蕾中的《风笛曲》，《企鹅》评介三星。
3.阿梅达(Almeida)指挥爱乐乐团版，Philips，CD编号422 057-2，这张唱片上收有《地狱中的奥菲欧》、《莱茵河的水妖》、《佩里绍莱》、《月世界的旅行》的序曲。
专辑曲目:
1.Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld), operetta: Overture
2.Barbe-bleue, operetta: Overture
3.La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, operetta: Overture
4.La Belle Hélène, operetta: Overture
5.Vert-vert, operetta: Kakadu: Overture
6.Les Contes d'Hoffmann, opera in 4 acts: Barcarole