庭の世界～花の歌曲集

大注目のテノール歌手、
アレッサンドロ・フィッシャーのライヴ録音!

テノール歌手のアレッサンドロ・フィッシャーは、歌劇『ポッペアの戴冠』のルカーノ役でザルツブルク音楽祭デビューを果たし、数々のオペラや音楽祭に出演するほか、定期的にコンサートやリサイタルも開催するなど精力的に活動しています。2022年にはグラモフォン誌の注目アーティストが紹介される「One to Watch」に選出され、BBTフェローシップを受賞するなど、今、大注目のテノールのひとりです。

2020年のロックダウンの最中、フィッシャーは妻とともに自宅の庭で多くの時間を過ごしました。庭の花々や自然の美しさに触れ、冬から春、そして夏へと移り変わる庭の景色からインスピレーションを受け、リサイタル・プログラムの土台が形成されました。ロンドンのウィグモア・ホールでライヴ録音されたこのアルバムは、全曲、花を題材とした楽曲で構成され、花や花言葉はもとより、愛の証についてやロマンティックな恋の儚さなど、花を通じて描かれる人間の深い感情にも言及しています。
東京エムプラス

This release appeared in February of 2024, just in time for the spring gardening season of that year, and it will doubtless appear on many gift lists. Tenor Alessandro Fisher conceived the album during the COVID-19 pandemic, and listeners who have worked through the various heavy album concepts associated with that event may well be glad to have something more cheerful. These external considerations aside, although flowers are hardly a topic unknown in art song, Fisher has devised a novel program here. The highlight may be the Six Songs, Op. 88, of Sibelius, known as "Flower Songs," which Sibelius designated as a song cycle. These are from 1917, relatively late in Sibelius career, and they condense his language and phrase structure down to miniature dimensions; in these, they are closer to orchestral language than to the composers lighter theatrical language. They are, interestingly, in Swedish, and while this reviewer is not qualified to judge the idiomatic quality or lack thereof in that language, Fisher does generally well with the range of languages here, that includes English. He puts across charm and humor in that language, even in the encore from Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, and in general, he is careful not to stray from a light mood even as he delves into Mendelssohn and the Schumanns at the beginning. With Carlos Guastavino, he goes into popular territory, and the songs by composer Eduard Toldra are also nice finds. There is enough here to interest both gardeners and their musical companions. ~ James Manheim