コダーイ: 管弦楽曲集

ハンガリーの敏腕指揮者、アダム・フィッシャーのコダーイ!

アダム・フィッシャーの名盤!
「ハーリ・ヤーノシュ」&「孔雀」!

ハンガリーが誇る敏腕指揮者ファミリー、フィッシャー兄弟の兄アダム・フィッシャーと2006年から首席指揮者を務めているハンガリー放送交響楽団によるコダーイの管弦楽作品集です。《ハーリ・ヤーノシュ》組曲では、派手さを感じさせるような煌びやかなものではなく、民謡調を意識するかのような情緒豊かな演奏に仕上げられており、さすが自国のアーティストの演奏と思わせるものとなっています。
東京エムプラス

This disc is part of a delightful series of Hungarian releases revisiting some unusual Kodaly works under the baton of veteran conductor Adam Fischer. Here he leads the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, whose brass section executes Kodaly's comic lines without a hint of stress. There is one familiar repertory item here: the Hary Janos-Suite, a colorful, at times laugh-out-loud funny (if you dare) set of episodes from a picaresque comic opera. Fischer catches the work's slightly twisted marches (including "La Marseillaise") and effects like the Viennese Musical Clock (track 2) with understated effect. The other two works on the disc show the evolution of Kodaly's folk-influenced language from late-Romantic intervallic flavoring to more structural conceptions. The rarity here is the symphonic poem Summer Evening, a student piece written in 1906 and revised in 1928 with a dedication to Arturo Toscanini. It's a calm piece of orchestral reverie with pentatonic melodies resounding in the night air. The Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song (The Peacock) are especially nicely explicated in the informative booklet notes by Anna Dalos (in Hungarian, French, and English). In this work Kodaly brings together the motivic treatment of Beethoven's large set of Eroica Variations, Op. 35, whose external pattern Kodaly follows closely (down to appearance of the bass line as the initual gesture), and his explorations of Hungarian folk music. It's not a simple work, and Fischer's slightly restrained reading is once again ideal even if some of its toughest brass passages do slip slightly out of control. The graphic design in this series is fresh, and the studio sound is clear and attractive. A good choice for anyone from serious Kodaly fans to listeners whose ears have been caught by the Hary Janos-Suite.