ドヴォルザーク: レクイエム/聖書の歌/テ・デウム

チェコの指揮者&チェコの楽団によるチェコの作曲家による傑作集

アルバムの『聖書の歌』と『テ・デウム』はデッカ・カタログに新たに加わりました。
ライヴ・レコーディング。一流ぞろいのソリストたちによる演奏。
このリリースは2017年に71歳で惜しくも亡くなったチェコの指揮者イルジー・ビエロフラーヴェクがチェコの傑作をデッカに行った最後の録音シリーズのひとつです。
ユニバーサル・ミュージック/IMS

Although he conducted only one of the three performances on this album, the Biblical Songs, Op. 99, the spirit of the great Jiři Bělohlavek lives throughout the music here. The last work Bělohlavek conducted before his death in 2017, in London, was the Dvořak Requiem, Op. 89. Whats heard here is a version with Czech performers conducted by Jakub Hrůša, a close Bělohlavek associate. The live performance, in Pragues Rudolfinum, was recorded in September of 2017, in memory of the recently deceased Bělohlavek, and the performers understood very well what he would have wanted: deliberate, straightforward construction of this massive Wagnerian work. Hrůša and the Czech Philharmonic get the operatic quality abundantly on display in the Tuba mirum, for instance, and the Prague Philharmonic Choir has never sounded better. In the Biblical Songs, Bělohlavek keeps the focus on bass Jan Martinik in this singer-friendly work. The Te Deum, Op. 103, was conducted by Hrůša a few months later, in December, and its an exceptionally joyous reading as if to say that the traditions Bělohlavek so ably maintained will continue. Although he is present only in part here, this is a worthy addition to the remarkable collection of recordings made by Jiři Bělohlavek at the end of his life.