ドビュッシー: 映像、遊戯、レントより遅く

MTT&SFSの新録音!
ドビュッシーの「映像」登場!

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)。マーラーの一大プロジェクトが完結し、近年はベートーヴェンとアメリカン・プログラムの録音でも圧倒的な存在感を見せてきたMTT&SFSの新録音は、ドビュッシーの「映像」、「遊戯」、「レントより遅く」を収録した管弦楽作品集が登場!ティルソン・トーマスの鮮やかな棒とサンフランシスコ響の完成された音色で聴く鮮明なるドビュッシーの世界。幾度のグラミー賞にも輝いたアメリカ屈指のオーケストラ・サウンドと、それを余すところなく収めた高音質録音にもご期待ください!
東京エムプラス

Since he became the music director and conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas has largely focused his attention on presenting the symphonies of Gustav Mahler in splendid audiophile recordings, for which he has received critical and popular praise. So his first hybrid SACD of works by Claude Debussy comes as a surprise, not only because the sound world is quite different from Mahler's, but Tilson Thomas' interest in Debussy has seemed less obsessive over the years. However, if this 2016 album of Images pour orchestre, the ballet Jeux, and La plus que lente suggests anything, it's that Tilson Thomas loves this richly evocative music just as much as he does Mahler's, and this could be the start of a similarly exquisite series of recordings. The conductor's interpretive insight and attention to detail are evident, and the San Francisco Symphony shimmers with exotic tone colors and luscious textures, so the combination of Tilson Thomas' meticulous conducting and the musicians' versatility yields a magical recording that is a showcase for what they can do. Recommended tracks for sampling are the opening of Images, which is one of the most recognizably "impressionist" passages in Debussy's works, and the opening of Jeux, which has a similar feeling of mystery and atmosphere, though listeners should also try the waltz, La plus que lente, which is something of a rarity in the orchestral version.