ラフマニノフ:ピアノ協奏曲第2番・第4番 他

若手ナンバー・ワンのヴィルトゥオーソ、トリフォノフの新作はラフマニノフ:ピアノ協奏曲2曲!

リスト作品集ではグラミー賞を受賞し、若手ナンバー・ワンのヴィルトゥオーソ・ピアニストとして大活躍のトリフォノフ。録音ではピアニスト=コンポーザーの系譜をショパン、リストと辿ってきましたが、ラフマニノフのピアノ協奏曲全曲録音シリーズの第1弾が登場。今回は古今のピアノ協奏曲の中でも抜群の人気を誇る第2番と、ラフマニノフ自身のピアノでストコフスキー指揮フィラデルフィア管弦楽団によって初演された第4番の協奏曲に加えて、ラフマニノフがピアノ独奏用に編曲したバッハの無伴奏ヴァイオリン・パルティータからの3曲を収録。
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You might not care for the Destination Rachmaninov concept attached to this release (and a later one, with the other two concertos): there are graphics showing Daniil Trifonov, perhaps the pianist of the moment at the time of the album's 2019 release, in an old train compartment, and even a video showing him in the Rocky Mountains, getting thrown off a train after playing a piano on it. The concept does not really address the specific music involved. You might object to the acoustics here: Deutsche Grammophon's engineers seem to have struggled with the rather cavernous Verizon Hall in Philadelphia, producing a muddy sound in the live Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 40, and a rather brittle edge in the Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18. None of it matters. If the marketing concept serves to introduce new listeners to Rachmaninov's concertos, those listeners will get the very best. Start your sampling with the first movement of the Concerto No. 2: the work has been recorded countless times, but the combination of restless forward motion and crystal-clear detail here have very rarely been matched. The Piano Concerto No. 4, the "modern" Rachmaninov concerto with its hints of Prokofiev and American jazz, is nonpareil and gets a big cheer from the Philadelphia audience (the work rarely gets this reaction). Trifonov strikes an edgy tone, even in the brooding slow movement, and carries it through brilliantly. Whether the Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nezet-Seguin is swept up in the excitement or simply draws on institutional memory (Rachmaninov himself played the concerto with the orchestra under Eugene Ormandy in 1941), the strings have rarely sounded so penetrating and rich. Trifonov does not ape Rachmaninov's own recordings of the concertos, although he follows those rather than the score at a couple of points, and the interpolation of three of the composer's Bach transcriptions as an entr'acte is very Rachmaninovian. Instead, he inhabits the music in a profound way. All aboard!

ダニール・トリフォノフによるラフマニノフのピアノ協奏曲全曲録音チクルス第1弾。『ラフマニノフ行き-出発』というタイトルで、今回は名曲 "第2番"と、トリフォノフ自身お気に入りという"第4番"を収録。ネゼ=セガン&フィラデルフィア管との共演。協奏曲のカップリングはラフマニノフ編曲のJ.S.バッハ:無伴奏ヴァイオリンのためのパルティータ第3番。原曲にはない対旋律を加えたり、オリジナルの雰囲気を壊さずに清々しさが漂う作品。自身も作曲するトリフォノフらしく、ラフマニノフの編曲の意図を理解し対位法を美しく浮かび上がらせる。軽やかなタッチが音粒を際立たせる。
intoxicate (C)上村友美絵