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发表于 2004-5-14 13:21:41
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五月Gramophone 给郎郎新出的CD ‘Live at Carnegie Hall' 评得很惨:
A high-profile debut - Carnegie Hall, no less - that fails to deliver
Deutsche Grammophon continues to display an erratic recent track record when it comes to recording and promotig young,photogenic pianists. Blessed with phenomenal dexterity and an ebullient personality, Lang Lang has attracted an enormous amount of publicity, but his dreadful mauling of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto at the first night of last year's BBC Proms and this present recital both raise the question of the whether his musicianship matches his profile. The CD does at least spare us the ecstatic facial expressions which even Dirk Bogarde in Song Without End would have considered hammy.
The Abegg Variations are tossed off with glittering ease, reminding us of a particular side to Schumann's character before he realised that he was never going to match Mendelssohn and Henri Herz in the fingerfertigkeit stakes. In both the opening and closing movements of the amiable C major sonata by Haydn, Lang Lang pleasingly underlines the quirky, quickfire wit of the composer, even if the slow movement sags in interest. No matter. So far,so good. The remainder of this well-recorded recital, however, is very much hit and miss. I cannot believe, for instance, that Lang Lang truly enjoys Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy as a piece of music. The performance is accurate,dutiful, dogged and uninspired. It left me cold. By contrast, Tan Dun's Eight Memories in Watercolors inspire some memorably atmospheric playing with beautifully graded tones,
Nothing at all of interest happens in the Chopin Nocturne; the Liszt is simply a vehicle for Lang Lang's astonishing athleticism, and must be among the most vapid and unmusical accounts ever to be heard in Carnigie Hall; Lang Lang even outdoes Horowitz in pulling around Schumann's Traumerei. The same happens to Liebestraume and, while it was brave to include a comedy duet with his father plaing the erhu(I'm all for a bit of fun at a piano recital), a Carnegie Hall solo debut is perhaps not the ideal time for cabaret. Jeremy Nicholas |
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