Bella Davidovich以21歲之齡,於1949年贏得第四屆蕭邦鋼琴大賽金牌,並於隔年與小提琴大師Yulian Sitkovetsky結為佳偶,四年後兩人生下同為小提琴名家的Dmitry Sitkovetsky.一門三傑成為樂壇佳話.
這套8CD完整收錄Bella Davidovich於1979~1983年在飛利浦錄製的錄音全集.原始封面精美收納!
The Philips recordings of Russian pianist BELLA DAVIDOVICH, collected together for the first time on CD and digitally. Includes recordings previously unreleased on CD and digitally.
‘Why is everyone writing about me?’ the pianist Lazar Berman once exclaimed. ‘Why don’t you write about Bella Davidovich? She’s more interesting than me. She’s superb!’
Born in 1928 in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, the musician acclaimed by Berman as Russia’s ‘greatest female pianist’ shared first prize in the 1949 Chopin Competition at Warsaw with Halina Czerny-Stefanska. Thereafter she was mostly confined to the Soviet Union until she was allowed to emigrate to the US in 1978. When she did so, the intensity of expectation surrounding her arrival and early appearances approached that given to Sviatoslav Richter in the late 1950s. Her debut recital at a sold-out Carnegie Hall evoked an atmosphere usually associated with Horowitz concerts.
‘Russia’s best-kept secret’, shouted the advertisements for her first Philips recordings, but critics were quick to observe that Davidovich did not fit the popular stereotype of the broad-scaled romantic Russian pianist, overpowering the music at every turn. She brought a poetic approach to everything she played, and Philips recorded her in repertoire which played to her strengths, beginning with Swiss sessions in March 1979 of Beethoven sonatas, Schumann’s Carnaval and Chopin’s Preludes. More Chopin followed, including the concertos accompanied by Sir Neville Marriner – and then an album of Rachmaninov and Saint-Saëns at the Concertgebouw, where she had established a warm rapport with both the Dutch orchestra and audience some years before her emigration.
The recordings on this collection date from 1979 to 1983, and Davidovich’s Philips discography came to an end with a recital of Scriabin and Prokofiev (including a superbly pointed selection of
pieces from Romeo and Juliet), issued in 1985. Featuring original covers, the set is annotated with a new essay by the piano historian Mark Ainley partly based on conversations with Davidovich’s
son, the violinist Dmitri Sitkovetsky.
曲目:
CD 1
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827)
1–4 Piano Sonata No. 18 in E flat major, Op. 31 No. 3 ‘The Hunt’
5–7 Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’
8 Bagatelle in A minor, WoO 59 ‘Für Elise’
Bella Davidovich, piano
CD 2
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN (1810–1849)
1–3 Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11
4 Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante in E flat major, Op. 22
Bella Davidovich, piano
London Symphony Orchestra
Neville Marriner
CD 3
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN (1810–1849)
1–3 Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21
4 Krakowiak – Concert Rondo in F major, Op. 14
Bella Davidovich, piano
London Symphony Orchestra
Neville Marriner
CD 4
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN (1810–1849)
1–24 24 Préludes, Op. 28
25 Polonaise No. 4 in C minor, Op. 40 No. 2
26 Rondeau in E flat major, Op. 16
27 Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60
Bella Davidovich, piano
CD 5
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN (1810–1849)
1 Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
2 Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38
3 Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47
4 Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52
5 Impromptu No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 29
6 Impromptu No. 2 in F sharp major, Op.36
7 Impromptu No. 3 in G flat major, Op. 51
8 Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 ‘Fantaisie-Impromptu’
Bella Davidovich, piano
CD 6
ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810–1856)
1–20 Carnaval, Op. 9
21–26 Humoreske, Op. 20
Bella Davidovich, piano
CD 7
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF (1873–1943)
1–25 Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, Op. 43
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (1835–1921)
26–28 Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22
Bella Davidovich, piano
Concertgebouworkest
Neeme Järvi
CD 8
SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891–1953)
1 Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 28
2–8 Pieces from ‘Romeo and Juliet’, Op. 75
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN (1872–1915)
9–10 Piano Sonata No. 2 in G sharp minor, Op. 19 (Sonata Fantasy)
11–12 Deux Poèmes, Op. 32
13 Mazurka in E minor, Op. 25 No. 3
14–15 Deux Mazurkas, Op. 40
16 Valse in A flat major, Op. 38
Bella Davidovich, piano