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2009-1028(三)2009留聲機唱片大獎

●Recital Award

Martinu extracted these three substantial fragments from his opera two years after completing it, with the aim of using it to secure a production of the full work in France. That didn’t happen and the fragments were never performed – but 70 years later, under the baton of Sir Charles Mackerras, a man who has devoted himself to getting to the heart of Czech music, the piece received its premiere and was captured in superb sound by Supraphon. Not only was it a rich musical feast – the soloists wonderfully led by Magdalena Kozená – it was also a poignant occasion, the last concert Mackerras plans to give with the Czech Philharmonic in their homeland. As Gramophone’s Guy Rickards wrote at the time: “I cannot recommend this scintillating disc highly enough.”

音樂0@@曲名：「Julietta Fragments」/ -'"【CD-TK1】

**作曲家：Martinu

**演奏者：Magdalena Kozená (mez); Czech Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Charles Mackerras

**唱片公司：Supraphon

**CD編號：SU3994-2

**專輯名稱：Martinu「Julietta」

OS1：（各位愛樂的朋友晚安，這裡是FM97.7古典音樂台，我是喜歡跟您分享音樂的老朋友歐頭，歡迎收聽今晚的「古典啟示錄」，不知道收音機旁的您，今天過得好嗎？）

原本禮拜三要進行「不只看電影」的單元，不過今晚要借用拿來分享2009留聲機唱片大獎音樂。

http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards

Disc awards

Historic Reissue Award

Baroque Instrumental Award

Historic Archive Award

Chamber Award / Recording of the Year

Special awards

Artist of the Year Award

Label of the Year Award

Lifetime Achievement Award

Specialist Classical Chart Award

Special Achievement Award

Classic FM Innovation Award

Editor’s Choice Award

Young Artist of the Year Award

Music in the Community Award

●Orchestral Award

Reviewer Edward Seckerson was moved by this release from one of the most exciting of young conductors (indeed, a previous Young Artist of the Year). “Petrenko’s Byronic petulance makes something really stirring of the self-loathing – Tchaikovsky’s as much as that of Byron’s antihero,” he wrote, adding, “The playing is lovely…Petrenko also keeps his head in the inferno of the finale, emphasising Tchaikovsky the classicist in the hard-working fugue.” The Petrenko era in Liverpool continues to yield rich dividends, he and his players clearly set on catching up with the Hallé as the UK orchestral success story of the day.

音樂1@@曲名：「Manfred Symphony」/ -'"【CD-TK2】

**作曲家：Tchaikovsky

**演奏者：Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko

**唱片公司：Naxos

**CD編號：8 570568

**專輯名稱：Tchaikovsky「Manfred Symphony」

OS2：●Historic Archive Award

The hand of history lies heavy on this recording, enshrining as it does the classic (English language) 1957 Covent Garden performances that established Berlioz’s epic work as an opera house favourite. Jon Vickers would later refine and deepen his classic Aeneas but there’s a definite rush of excitement flowing through the entire cast of a jewel newly uncovered. “It is,” wrote Patrick O’Connor in Gramophone, “difficult to approach this historic broadcast without some feeling of awe.”

音樂2@@曲名：「Les Troyens」/ -'"【CD-TK3】

**作曲家：Berlioz

**演奏者：Covent Garden Opera / Rafael Kubelík

**唱片公司：Testament

**CD編號：SBT4 1443

**專輯名稱：Berlioz「Les Troyens」

OS3：●Early Music Award

This collection of settings by composers including Palestrina, Guerrero, Gombert, Victoria and Lassus of words from the biblical Song of Songs was a sumptuous and beautifully performed highlight of last year’s choral releases. Gramophone’s Peter Quantrill praised the “quiet good taste and stylistically homogeneous approach of Stile Antico” – the young British vocal ensemble who have assembled and recorded this collection, and who demonstrate freshness of voice and an exquisite and sensitive approach to interpretation throughout the programme.

音樂3@@曲名：「Song of Songs」/ -'"【CD-TK4】

**作曲家：

**演奏者：Stile Antico

**唱片公司：Harmonia Mundi

**CD編號：HMU80 7489 (8/09)

**專輯名稱：「Song of Songs」

OS4：●Instrumental Award

The culmination of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s complete Debussy piano music cycle is a triumphant success. Dedicated to the Etudes and Images, the recording boasts “ravishing colour shadings and articulations”, according to Jed Distler writing in December 2008, and achieves highs of technical virtuosity while preserving the works’ imaginative qualities in “emotionally generous” performances. Bavouzet was narrowly beaten to the Instrumental Award last year for Volume 2 of his Debussy series by Paul Lewis’s Record of the Year-winning Beethoven piano sonatas. This year, he rightly takes the Award – as much in recognition of the cycle as a whole as of this excellent recording.

音樂4@@曲名：「Complete Works for Piano, Vol 4」/ -'"【CD-TK5】

**作曲家：Debussy

**演奏者：Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

**唱片公司：Chandos

**CD編號：CHAN10497

**專輯名稱：Debussy「Complete Works for Piano, Vol 4」

OS5：●Contemporary Award

In his review of the “The NMC Songbook”, David Gutman took the opportunity to highlight a few of his personal favourites: “In Hugh Wood’s George Herbert setting, careful workmanship does not preclude a Tippettian sense of exaltation. I hear a similar sense of engagement in Simon Holt’s unaccompanied declamation (evoking a real-life incident in rural India) and Brian Elias’s more subdued John Clare solo. The way in which the items are juxtaposed can be crucial too; the cooler limpidity of Howard Skempton and Gavin Bryars is doubly welcome in context.” DSG also pointed out that “only a critic or a fool would listen to the entire collection at a sitting. Much better to study at leisure what should prove to be an important cultural document.”

音樂5@@曲名：「The NMC Songbook」/ -'"【CD-TK6】

**作曲家：

**演奏者：Various artists
**唱片公司：NMC

**CD編號：NMCD150

**專輯名稱：「The NMC Songbook」

OS6：●Choral Award

“The only recording of Gerontius in recent times to challenge, even shake, the supremacy of Barbirolli,” wrote Edward Seckerson in January. Sir Mark Elder “draws us patiently, unerringly, into the profound mystery of the piece, judiciously weighing its theatricality against its inwardness”. The Hallé’s glorious recording represents the pinnacle of the orchestra’s association with Elgar’s monumental work under Elder. Mezzo Alice Coote and tenor Paul Groves joined the Hallé Orchestra, Choir and Youth Choir back in 2005 for a successful Proms appearance and they are joined on this recording by the ever-wonderful Bryn Terfel.

音樂6@@曲名：「The Dream of Gerontius」/ -'"【CD-TK7】

**作曲家：Elgar

**演奏者：Soloists incl Paul Groves (ten), Bryn Terfel (bass-bar); Choirs; Hallé Orchestra / Sir Mark Elder

**唱片公司：Hallé

**CD編號： CDHLD7520

**專輯名稱：Elgar「The Dream of Gerontius」

OS7：●Baroque Instrumental Award

It’s nearly a decade and a half since the superb viol consort Fretwork recorded Purcell’s complete Fantazias – a Recording of the Month back in 1995. With a slightly different line-up, their new version is better still. “In this new recording they bring a stronger sense of the linear progression of the music, helped by slightly quicker tempi,” Julie Anne Sadie wrote in September’s Gramophone. “Purcell’s remarkable Fantazias – out of sync with their time, never widely circulated or acknowledged in his day, yet works of true genius – are definitely worth revisiting.”

音樂7@@曲名：「The Complete Fantazias」/ -'"【CD-TK8】

**作曲家：Purcell

**演奏者：Fretwork

**唱片公司：Harmonia Mundi F

**CD編號：HMU90 7502

**專輯名稱：Purcell「The Complete Fantazias」

OS8：●Solo Vocal Award

Gerald Finley might well be considering moving into the Dorchester Hotel’s ballroom, so often does he mount its stage to pick up his latest Gramophone Award! This is a bass-baritone at the height of his powers, fully inhabiting whatever repertoire he happens to be exploring. Richard Wigmore reviewed Finley’s disc of Dichterliebe and assorted other Heine settings last November: “One of the most beautifully sung and intensely experienced performances on disc of Schumann’s cycle of rapture, disillusion and tender regret,” he wrote, going on to praise it in terms as glowing as the recording itself.

音樂8@@曲名：「Dichterliebe and other Heine Settings」/ -'"【CD-TK9】

**作曲家：Schumann

**演奏者：Gerald Finley (bar), Julius Drake (pf)

**唱片公司：Hyperion

**CD編號：CDA67676

**專輯名稱：Schumann「Dichterliebe and other Heine Settings」

OS9：●Historic Reissue Award

The best archive projects are guided by a singularity of vision, as with EMI’s multi-volume “Composers in Person” series. It brought to the listening public composers – from Bartók (pictured) to Villa-Lobos – playing and conducting their own music, among them many recordings never before heard outside of private collections. It was a labour of love for its architect Ken Jagger and his colleague (and ex‑Gramophone editor) Malcolm Walker. So to have all 22 volumes gathered in one low-price box is a veritable treasure trove, to be pored over and loved for years to come

音樂9@@曲名：「，」/ -'"【CD-TK10】

**作曲家：

**演奏者：Various artists

**唱片公司：EMI (22 discs)

**CD編號：217575-2

**專輯名稱：「Composers in Person」

OS10：●Baroque Vocal Award

“There are plenty of very good recordings of the four anthems that Handel composed for the coronation of King George II and Queen Caroline,” wrote David Vickers of The Sixteen’s new recording of these much-loved works, “but this new one leaps straight towards the top of the heap.” With choral singing that is “wonderfully clear, perfectly enunciated, beautifully phrased and impeccably tuned,” and “brilliantly alert, bold and lyrical” orchestral playing, Harry Christophers and his choir produced a suitably celebratory disc for their 30th anniversary year.

●Artist of the Year Award

What a remarkable year The Sixteen have had – and what a superb way for the much-loved and consistently excellent choir to celebrate their 30th anniversary season!

It’s particularly pleasing to give this Award – which recognises the contribution made by an artist (or in this case artists) to musical life over the past 12 months – to The Sixteen. Not only do they perform and record music often little-known to all but the choral aficionado (and sometimes even then…) with exquisite style and beauty of sound, they are also among the hardest-working and most dedicated ambassadors for choral music, something we explored in our May issue cover story.

Every year, under the stewardship of founder-conductor Harry Christophers, The Sixteen take a thoughtfully curated programme of music – usually, though not exclusively, early repertoire – on a tour of cathedrals, chapels and concert halls throughout the UK, hosting a number of workshops for amateur singers en route. But as well as the Choral Pilgrimage, they are as likely to be found presenting an oratorio at the Barbican, seen performing at the Southbank Centre where they are associate artists or at international venues, appearing on television in the BBC’s Sacred Music series, or heard on radio as “The Voices of Classic FM”.

And, of course, recording. Their catalogue was already extensive when, in the late 1990s the group founded their own label, Coro. It continues to go from strength to strength, garnering plaudits with its releases exploring the full breadth of the choral repertoire. This year alone has seen The Sixteen commit composers as varied as Purcell and Guerrero, Howells and Stanford, James MacMillan and Roxanna Panufnik to disc. The highlight must however be the superb disc of Handel Coronation Anthems, Gramophone’s CD of the Month in April and now winner of the Baroque Vocal category at this year’s Awards. It demonstrates perfectly what is so inspiring about this group: some of the most familiar pieces in the choral repertoire, even something as firmly etched on our consciousness as Zadok the Priest, emerged feeling newly crafted and thrillingly alive.

But perhaps most satisfying – for us as well as for The Sixteen – is that this year sees the group receive Awards both from our critics and from the public. Affirmation, if it were needed, that this group both excel artistically and inspire and engage audiences throughout the UK and beyond (alongside Gramophone readers, listeners to radio stations around the world from Classic FM to CBC in Canada to Radio New Zealand voted).

The Sixteen emerged as clear front-runners from an extremely prestigious field. Their fellow nominees were: pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly, soprano Diana Damrau, conductors Gustavo Dudamel, René Jacobs and Mariss Jansons, and bass-baritones Gerald Finley and Bryn Terfel. Not a bad selection to beat.

音樂10@@曲名：「Coronation Anthems」/ -'"【CD-TK11】

**作曲家：Handel

**演奏者：The Sixteen / Harry Christophers

**唱片公司：Coro

**CD編號：COR16066

**專輯名稱：Handel「Coronation Anthems」

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●Concerto Award

Steven Osborne is a pianist who until recently has been somewhat in the shadow of more famous contemporaries. Yet 2009 has seemed to mark an especial breakthrough in Osborne’s career, with a superb disc of Rachmaninov’s Preludes and this marvellous selection of Britten rarities. The latter disc prompted Gramophone critic Arnold Whittall to write: “Steven Osborne yields nothing to the great Sviatoslav Richter in the punchiness and fine-tuned filigree of his playing…Osborne and his colleagues make the best possible case for pieces which have tended to be placed on the outer fringes of the Britten canon.” For existing Osborne fans this is a must; it’s bound to create many more.

音樂11@@曲名：「Piano Concerto」/ -'"【CD-TK12】

**作曲家：Britten

**演奏者：Steven Osborne (pf);BBC Scottish SO / Ilan Volkov
**唱片公司：Hyperion

**CD編號：CDA67625

**專輯名稱：Britten「Piano Concerto」

OS12：●Opera Award

Who said the days of recording opera in the studio were over? They may be less frequent, but this Butterfly is in many ways wonderfully old‑fashioned. A stellar cast and conductor gathered in a studio to record a mainstream opera favourite – and yet the resultant preformance is marvellously fresh. Despite Angela Gheorghiu having never sung the title-role on stage, Patrick O’Connor found her Butterfly “her best Puccini role since Magda in La Rondine more than a decade ago.” It is, he found, a recording “to set alongside the great recordings of the past”.

音樂12@@曲名：「Madama Butterfly」/ -'"【CD-TK13】

**作曲家：Puccini

**演奏者：Soloists incl Angela Gheorghiu (sop);Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Antonio Pappano

**唱片公司：EMI

**CD編號： 264187-2

**專輯名稱：Puccini「Madama Butterfly」

OS13：●DVD Award

When this came through on the CD release sheets under the innocuous‑sounding title “The Copenhagen Ring”, there was no hint of the DVD event that this would become. A cast consisting of solid or up-and-coming Wagnerians rather than stars, a house not known for that composer and a conductor (Michael Schønwandt) who has never quite broken into the highest echelon of international maestri did not bode for anything special. Yet this superb, thought-provoking production in which every performer sings and acts their heart out proved a mesmerising experience, one which led Mike Ashman, in a full-page review, to rhapsodise about a production that “finds more heartbreaking emotion in Wagner’s drama than almost any since Patrice Chereau’s”.

音樂13@@曲名：「Der Ring des Nibelungen」/ -'"【CD-TK14】

**作曲家：Wagner

**演奏者：Royal Danish Opera / Michael Schønwandt

**唱片公司：Decca

**CD編號：074 3264DH7

**專輯名稱：Wagner「Der Ring des Nibelungen」

OS14：●Editor’s Choice Award

Stephen Kovacevich battled back from illness to master the Diabellis again

It was the Diabelli Variations that first lifted Stephen Kovacevich’s career into the highest echelons, and it is the same work that has reconfirmed his place there – at least to himself.

Two years ago he suffered a stroke and seemed to have recovered fully, until his playing suddenly felt different. “I lost my sense of security,” he says. “It was as if I was driving a car but the controls weren’t where I expected.”

Reasoning that if any work would bring him back on track it would be this one, he threw himself into practising it. “I had played it at the Aldeburgh Festival and it was terrible. But I decided to fight and, revisiting the Beethoven at the Queen Elizabeth Hall the following January, there at last came a turning-point.”

Crisis over, Kovacevich was playing as well as he ever has, and making new discoveries along the way. “Every centimetre of that work is inside me, but the fascinating thing is the way it has changed. It was like seeing an old friend again after a long time and he’s grown and looks different.”

The pianist was so encouraged that he made a new recording, for Onyx, which has been an immense success. I chose it as Disc of the Month when it came out, and it seems a natural (against strong competition) for the Editor’s Choice Award. Reviewer Harriet Smith hailed it as “a disc to treasure” in her review. But it was a comment from Kovacevich’s closest musical friend Martha Argerich about his current playing that has really delighted him. “She said she’d never heard me play better,” he reports, adding “and I hope my story gives inspiration to other musicians who’ve been ill.”

James Inverne

音樂14@@曲名：「Diabelli Variations」/ -'"【CD-TK15】

**作曲家：貝多芬

**演奏者：Stephen Kovacevich

**唱片公司：

**CD編號：

**專輯名稱：貝多芬「Diabelli Variations」

OS15：●Chamber Award / Recording of the Year

That the Debussy and Ravel string quartets – a regular pairing on records – are joined by a rare outing for Fauré’s ethereal late Quartet is not the only reason that this disc from these four young French string-players is so special.

Reviewing it in Gramophone last December, Rob Cowan identified “a fluidity to the Ebène’s playing…that suits the music’s character, a mood of wistfulness that the Ravel especially benefits from”. Quatuor Ebène, he went on, “scores highest for an almost palpable sense of wonder” in these works.

Such a critical response was by no means unique upon this disc’s release last year and the quartet’s triumph with their Virgin Classics debut in these Awards is merely the pinnacle of a series of highlights in these musicians’ still short career. Graduates from the BBC’s invaluable New Generation Artists scheme, they won a series of high-profile chamber music awards and competitions before they became worthy winners of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2007.

Part of the “fluidity” to their playing identified by RC must be due in part to their sideline as jazz musicians – the “other Ebène”, as they describe this intriguing parallel career, in which they offer complete, integrated performances of jazz standards and improvisations, along with a drummer and sound engineer. “Our jazz-playing,” explained leader Pierre Colombet, “enables us to look at the score from a different perspective and to see classical music as a kind of improvisation.”

When a panel of Gramophone critics gathered in August to discuss the merits of each category winner and elect a Recording of the Year, it was consistently this quartet’s reading of the Fauré that drew the most enthusiastic response around the table. Going back to Rob Cowan’s original December review of the disc, he noted that it was “a brilliant idea to include Fauré’s late Quartet”, identifying it as a linchpin for all three works, Ravel having composed his Quartet in Fauré’s class as a 10th anniversary tribute to Debussy’s Quartet. And it’s true that the Ebène bravely and successfully enter a crowded marketplace with the works by the young Debussy and Ravel, the Fauré adding yet more value to this disc. “Fauré’s Quartet responds well to the Ebène’s sensitised approach,” remarked our reviewer.

Quatuor Ebène now march on to other shades and nationalities of the unfathomably rich quartet repertoire. But their identification with these works by their three great compatriots will endure through their career as an indelible calling-card. While the Ravel was the first work they performed together, they tackled the Debussy only six months before making this recording, and worked long and hard to penetrate the enigmas of the Fauré. Nevertheless they give the impression of having been born into this music, breathing its rarefied air and yet making each work a unique, compelling listening experience.

音樂15@@曲名：「String Quartets」/ -'"【CD-TK16】

**作曲家：Debussy. Fauré. Ravel

**演奏者：Quatuor Ebène

**唱片公司：Virgin

**CD編號：519045-2

**專輯名稱：Debussy. Fauré. Ravel「String Quartets」

OS16：●Label of the Year Award

Gramophone salutes a unique German independent record label that reflects the exquisite taste and vision of one man

In an age of increasing standardisation, it’s good to salute genuine individuality. Each year we pay tribute to a record label that demonstrates a winning blend of creativity, imagination, business acumen, style – all adding up to that word again: individuality. This year we turn the spotlight on a label that has been ploughing its particular furrow with notable success for 40 years, ECM, and more particularly for “classical music” fans, its New Series.

ECM is one of those rare labels that bears the fingerprints of one man on everything it does – the visionary Manfred Eicher, far more than just an “A&R man”. He is ECM and ECM is Manfred Eicher.

Everything the label does reveals the care and attention to detail that makes his label one of those extraordinary destinations for music lovers who want something a little bit different. And, ironically, that “little bit different” might be repertoire that other labels consider so “core” that they give it a wide berth – like the Beethoven piano sonatas. Typical of Eicher, he felt able to tackle this Everest of the piano repertoire with a musician who was absolutely ready to share his interpretations of these 32 works, András Schiff. And needless to say the results have been among the most interesting surveys of these pieces. Or this year’s revelatory disc of the Schumann violin sonatas with Carolin Widmann and Dénes Várjon. When Duncan Druce reviewed the disc in these pages he commented that “whether or not you know the music well, you’ll be enthralled and delighted”.

And not only is that a tribute to these performers but it’s also a response to so much that ECM does: making the familiar new again (one might also point to the Zehetmair Quartet’s Record of the Year-winning disc of Schumann’s string quartets from 2003, a disc that still conveys a freshness and sense of discovery that is palpable).

But ECM New Series, for many people, is about new music. While many companies shy away from contemporary music, Eicher seeks it out – and again it’s a tribute to his taste and extraordinary judgement that many of the composers he’s championed have gone on to become familiar names: Arvo Pärt, Giya Kancheli, Valentin Silvestrov and Erkki-Sven Tüür, to name just four. And ECM, once it has found a musician to champion, does it properly, not merely with a single disc but often exploring different genres of that musician’s art. And of course that is one incentive to stay with the label and follow the lead it so obviously offers.

Add to the provocative A&R, first-class musicianship, invariably demonstration-worthy recording quality and the label’s trademark design – usually black and white, always slipcased, and adorned not with a going-through-the-motions programme note but something altogether more challenging – and you have all the ingredients that have convinced us that this, of all years, belongs to Manfred Eicher and his wonderful ECM label.

音樂16@@曲名：「，」/ -'"【CD-TK17】

**作曲家：

**演奏者：

**唱片公司：ECM

**CD編號：

**專輯名稱：「」

OS17：●Special Achievement Award

We honour the founder of the much-loved label Harmonia Mundi

Bernard Coutaz, the founder and patron for the past half a century of Harmonia Mundi, is unique in the record industry in that he’s steered his company not as someone concerned with day-to-day A&R but as a genuinely visionary leader.

We’re delighted to be presenting him with a Special Achievement Award this year for instigating and fostering a truly creative atmosphere that allows his colleagues – notably those responsible for the company’s A&R, Eva Coutaz and Robina Young – to make the wonderful recordings they do. Add to that a nose for business and you have a very special man indeed. One of Coutaz’s early successes was luring the English countertenor Alfred Deller to Harmonia Mundi – it was the sound of Baroque music, performed in a way close to the spirit of the time of its creation, that Coutaz believed people had a hunger for. And he was right: from those early explorations of the music of Purcell and his contemporaries, through the wonders of the French Baroque (courtesy of William Christie and Les Arts Florissants among others) to the ear‑opening explorations of the Classical period from René Jacobs and colleagues, not to mention myriad other spectacular discs, Coutaz’s company has grown into a major player on a truly global stage with outposts in the USA, the UK, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland, and a distribution chain that ensures HM discs are available everywhere.

Based in one of the loveliest settings of any record company, a Mas or large Provençal farm house with numerous outbuildings just outside the southern French town of Arles, Harmonia Mundi not only makes recordings, but also acts as retailer with a network of HM shops throughout France and a couple in Spain too. There, far from the madding crowd and its obsession with the latest star diva or superstar pianist, music lovers can buy their music in altogether gentler surroundings. Now in his mid-eighties, Bernard Coutaz’s contribution to recorded classical music has been immense: we salute him and thank him.

音樂17@@曲名：「，」/ -4'03"【CD-TK18】

**作曲家：

**演奏者：指揮樂團

**唱片公司：hm

**CD編號：

**專輯名稱：「」

OS18：●Young Artist of the Year Award

DG’s recent signing, Yuja Wang, is a young pianist of astonishing talent

“A combination of blazing technique and a rare instinct for poetry” – those were the words we wrote above the review of Yuja Wang’s debut disc for Deutsche Grammophon in our August issue.

In the previous issue we had featured this exceptional young pianist on our One to Watch page. It was clear to us, as to an increasingly large number of people in the music world, that she was a remarkable talent. And now we name her our 2009 Young Artist of the Year.

First the facts. Born in Beijing in 1987, Yuja Wang won the 2002 Aspen Music Festival’s concerto competition and began studying at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia with Gary Graffman. She made her European concert debut in 2003, with David Zinman and the Zürich Tonhalle, and her North American debut two years after that, in Ottawa, under Pinchas Zukerman.

Then earlier this year she signed to DG, fulfilling a long‑held ambition she had had ever since hearing Pollini playing Chopin on the iconic Yellow Label. It’s an impressive career progression by any standards, but listen to her play and its speed suddenly makes perfect sense.

Her debut disc, which featured the second piano sonatas of Chopin and Scriabin, Liszt’s Piano Sonata and Etudes by Ligeti, was a well chosen and bold showcase for her talents. In the Scriabin she demonstrated a beautiful sensitivity to the music’s many and varied moods, in Chopin a fiery but never reckless approach, and throughout the whole programme we are left in no doubt of her formidable technical command, at the same time, as Bryce Morrison wrote in the review, “her playing, while sharply individual, is free from all distorting idiosyncrasy or mannerism”. We look forward with great excitement to following Yuja Wang’s career for many years to come.

音樂18@@曲名：「，」/ -1'39"【CD-TK19】

**作曲家：

**演奏者：王羽佳

**唱片公司：DG

**CD編號：

**專輯名稱：「」

OS19：●Lifetime Achievement Award

Pierre-Laurent Aimard pays tribute to Nikolaus Harnoncourt, a true visionary

Musical life is interesting if you are nourished and enlightened by strong personalities, and in this case it seemed to me hugely enriching to work with somebody who had such a very creative attitude. He has a way of combining a great knowledge, working with the text with a great freedom in vision, intuition and dramaticism.

There are conductors who can get very “alive” interpretations without Harnoncourt’s period-instrument background, but this way of having done things gives a special identity to his interpretations. He is a musician who is incredibly passionate and committed in music, with a pure spirit as well, discovering new scores, in general and for himself. He has a very young soul.

I have been lucky to have performed with him on so many occasions – the Beethoven concertos, the Triple Concerto, the Dvorák Concerto. He is a phenomenal musician, who has given a very strong direction to a whole era of music‑making.

今晚的節目接近尾聲，最後我們來聽………….。OTTO要在好聽的2009留聲機唱片大獎中跟您說再會了，明晚「古典啟示錄」我們再一同在空中分享音樂，晚安、掰掰。

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**演奏者：Nikolaus Harnoncourt

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