チャイコフスキー: 交響曲第5番

MTT&SFSのチャイコフスキー!"交響曲第5番"&"ロメジュリ"!

アメリカ西海岸の名門、サンフランシスコ交響楽団(SFS)とマイケル・ティルソン・トーマス(MTT)。2014-2015年シーズンで、MTTの70歳&SFSの音楽監督就任20周年という節目を迎えた黄金コンビ。新リリースは「チャイコフスキー:交響曲第5番」が登場!
MTT&SFSのチャイコフスキーといえば、「キーピング・スコア」シリーズでDVD&CDとして発売されていた「交響曲第4番」の名演以来の発売となり、ティルソン・トーマスの描く英雄的な「交響曲第5番」、情熱的な「ロメオとジュリエット」を、192kHz/24bitのハイレゾ録音、Hybrid SACDのサウンドで楽しむことができます。
東京エムプラス

One of the most popular classical works of all time, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E minor is also one of the most frequently played and recorded, which makes it difficult to choose an exceptional performance out of so many contenders. Fortunately, this 2015 hybrid SACD by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony offers one of the more exciting and terrific sounding live renditions available, so even the most jaded listener can appreciate this symphony with new ears. A conscientious and meticulous conductor, Tilson Thomas has taken great pains to get sonorities and shadings as close as possible to Tchaikovsky's written intentions, and there is no worry of excessive emoting or distortions of the music for questionable programmatic effects. For listeners who have had enough of the usual Romantic posturing, this Fifth has a detailed and lucid presentation that is preferable to the murky textures and dull expressions one often hears elsewhere. In spite of the symphony's many bombastic passages, and they are unavoidable, Tilson Thomas draws out much elegance and beauty, and strikes a balance between the work's forced drama and its genuinely poignant lyricism. The symphony is backed with the Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture, which is equally popular and quite complementary to the symphony in its turbulent moods and extraordinary melodies.