鄭京和演奏會 - 香港站

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300bguy 發表於 2013-11-4 22:25
現場音樂会首選大會堂!

我覺得文化中心聽獨奏或幾件樂器嘅演奏聲音唔錯喎，但聽交響就真係大會堂好好多

momei

re Post 15
I do not know why 劉偉霖 was so critical about Fischer and stepped on her so harshly.
I listened to her for the first night, in my usual seat. The concert was in fact for listening to Dresdner Philharmonie.
I have no qualifications to argue with 劉偉霖 about the quality of Fischer's musical performance but just want to say some words.
First, 鄭京和 is 65 whilst Fischer is only 30 (born in 1983). 鄭 has 35 years more performing experience as soloist than Fischer. Well what if the comparison is made between Fischer and the year 1 top student in the Hong Kong Academy of Arts.
To be fair to Fischer, to say she is cheating concert goers, in my view, is too much!
Let's look at the reality. The ticket prices (HK$680 highest) is to pay for the Dresdner orchestra and their instruments plus conductor Sanderling flying in. Fischer is only a topping on the cake and her performance fee isn't much. Look at 鄭. She only has herself and a pianist and the proceeds with subsidy by the Hong Kong government go to her mainly. From this one can see that the complaint is really like saying McDonalds' is cheating customers because the coffee sold is much inferior than the one in Peninsula Hotel or Four Seasons.
I find Fischer's playing to be good when performing the Dvorak violin concerto with the Dresdner. Her tonal timbre is good and her 落弓 and 收弓 is crisp and sharp with confidence of a master. For encore she played Paganini's Caprice 13 and that's the one  to be compared with 鄚's recital.

300bguy

Thanks for ching sharing! Let's read today 信報 another writer's comment as extracted below:
2013年11月6日

蔚藍         樂韻悠揚         

頭重腳輕的Julia

".....澳門的最貴門票只及香港票價的一半，澳門人大可以拿那每年獲贈的「澳人獎金」中的一點點坐享美樂，香港人實牙實齒買了double價的「貴飛」還興高采烈引頸以待，只能嘆一句：我們還要繼續「瞢塞」多久？還是良民好擺布啊!...."

"音樂會的開頭敗興，但拯救者很快出現了，她就是小提琴天才Julia Fischer，近十年來的德國超新星——她曾經在一場音樂會裏，上半場彈奏葛里格的鋼琴協奏曲，下半場再演奏聖桑的小提琴協奏曲!!不過香港的文化蓄水池管理員水平太劣，不要說請不動她演奏鋼琴，連她的名字都譯錯。"

"....她的小提琴聲，有一種深入肌理的纖細與明晰，在外形上，她的五官有着典型日爾曼人的剛毅硬朗，而體形上卻是一個尋常農婦般的敦厚，但就在這樣的身軀之上的大腦中，蘊藏了極為精細且豐富的音樂才華與能量。布拉姆斯的Ｄ大調小提琴協奏曲，第一樂章在她的弓下展現出前所未聞的多層次多維度，她如同憑感覺逐漸把樂曲做成了微積分，最後形成了一張碩大的分子美食圖片，即內容還是原先的內容，只是形態卻更引人入勝了，毋須用娓娓動聽來形容，因為Julia的琴聲已經穿越這種表象，展現的是極致的、脆弱的、幾近神經質的布拉姆斯美學詮釋；但有時又突然從前段劇烈的柔音中消解出來，化為卸下一切思緒的平和、寧靜，讓音樂得以喘息。極為出色的是華彩Cadenza部分，她的琴藝更形出神入化，高把位的雙音行雲流水般傾洩而下，難得的是琴聲裏那縷縷輕得不能承受的絕世之美，那布拉姆斯內心永遠無法訴說的悽愴和隱痛。玩技巧玩得眩的人我見得多了，但Julia與他（她）們不同，她深入在布氏的音樂裏，於是煥發了神采。

不進反退指揮呆板

可惜她到底還年輕一些，第二樂音的演繹，她不進反退了，在過於精采的第一樂章後，這幾乎已是定局。...."

Happy Listening!

momei

There was a thread/post talking about seating arrangements of players of an orchestra. I could not track it down just now, thus post this additional information here.
The Dresdner has the violas and cellos transposed. The former players sit at the edge of the stage whilst the latter, inside. The sound is quite different to that of having them reversed. Strings sound more detailed an delicate in the Dresdner arrangement.
Well, Lorin Maazel did not change the regular positions of the two when conducting the Hong Kong Phil on 1st Nov. Never heard the Phil so good and the Ring cycle pieces were an audiophiles delight 爆得來又靓聲。Wotan's Farewell is one of my few favorite demo tracks and it was my great pleasure to hear it live. A good comparison with the reproduction from my system! Will go again tonight to listen to Maazel conducting choruses.

haha12

看罷#15 ，不禁慨歏該報章的水平與撰文者的態度。

兩場 Concert 皆有幸為座上客。鄭京和早已是大師級，表現、水準、經驗、穩定性比小妮子Julia Fischer 出色理所當然，六十餘歳仍有心有力更是驚喜。 Julia Fischer 技巧純熟卓越，但跟Dresden Phil 的 合作默契及對環境的適應力有改善空間，責任各佔一半，她和指揮Michael Sanderling 乃初生之犢, 若能穩步發展，前景一片光明。

台上三分鐘，台下十年功。硬要批評別人交行貨似乎說不過去。如斯評論，唯一笑置之!

题外話，大家可有留意台上燈槽位置最近裝上調聲反射板？ 聲音是改變了，是好是壞有待定斷。愚見較大可能是改變多於改善。

hercules

No single cell phone ringing for HKPO concert tonight, so I can conclude most of the disturbance were from 阿豬媽！

haha12

剛從網上看到的好文章，跟大家分享。。。

http://thehousenews.com/art/倔強敏感的鄭小姐-小記鄭京和香港獨奏會/

momei

The concert last evening (7th) conducted by Maazel was another audiophiles' delight. This time he arranged the HK Phil's violas and cellos in the same manner as the Dresdner described in my post above. Principals of various sections were released off duty. No double basses either.

dvmrp

momei 發表於 2013-11-8 08:10
The concert last evening (7th) conducted by Maazel was another audiophiles' delight. This time he ar ...

Then, who are the members of the chamber orchestra on the back of the 'main' orchestra? ..and.. who are the folks on the back of the violin section?

(may be you're sitting on the balcony above violin? )

diamondblack

dvmrp 發表於 2013-11-8 09:05
Then, who are the members of the chamber orchestra on the back of the 'main' orchestra? ..and.. wh ...

The small chamber at the back of the stage playing for the tenor and baritone was the principals of each section of HK Phil

diamondblack

momei 發表於 2013-11-8 08:10
The concert last evening (7th) conducted by Maazel was another audiophiles' delight. This time he ar ...

I am wondering where you sat last night.

momei

I sat in row A last evening.
I might be mistaken. I only saw the winds and percussion members behind the strings.
Also most of the time when the tenor and baritone sang, Maazel did not conduct and I seemed only to hear the winds accompanying.  
PS:
The first thing I encountered when players took their seats was how come I did not see the familiar faces: 王敬, 范丁, Andrew Ling and Bamping (the "fat" cello principal). Also at the time of tuning it was the associate, Leung, who took the concertmaster's seat, stood up and led it. The protocol was for the concertmaster to do it and that led me to think Wang was not there.

hercules

dvmrp 發表於 2013-11-8 09:05
Then, who are the members of the chamber orchestra on the back of the 'main' orchestra? ..and.. wh ...

The Chamber Section were all Principal player, and Violin is Concertmaster....

But the booklet didn't make any introduction to Chamber Orchestra conductor..poor

momei

Magdalena's concert last night was very enjoyable. She has a nice and powerful voice. Ancient instruments accompanying her sounded crisp and sharp. Her DG release of these "Love Letters" songs would be a test for hi fi system.