由 Patrick 發表於 週一 2月 03, 2003 6:42 am
標 題:Oscar Fried dir Beethoven Sym No.9(轉貼)
發 表 人:blue97(blue97.tw)
發表時間:2002/04/07 11:54:05
As heard here in a transfer by David Lennick, this 1929 recording ?not particularly good for its vintage ?is even less sonically appealing than in an 11-year-old edition by Mark Obert-Thorn (Pearl CD GEMMCD9372). This disparity seems to result in part from Obert-Thorn's having a cleaner set of 78rpm discs and in part from Lennick's having imposed excessive filtering, in an effort to eliminate as much surface noise as possible. In the process, whatever (admittedly limited) colour exists in the sources has been neutralised. Moreover such filtering occasionally veils sense. A passage in the second movement sounds in this edition as if the orchestra is scrambling to stay together. When it is heard on the Pearl disc, however, with more detail audible, it is evident that the ensemble is intact.
Because of its sonic limitations, one would probably not listen to this performance mainly for musical pleasure. Yet it is instructive and even satisfying in a historical sense. For one thing, it provides one of many examples that give the lie to the specious generalisation that the tempos of Austro-German conductors were generally broad. Fried's first movement is taut and intense and arguably closer to the quintessential Beethoven than Weingartner's account of three years earlier (Dante CD LYS190).