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Gala Concert at Royal Festival Hall London 1982 [Blu-ray]

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Sir William Walton is of one of Britain's best-loved twentieth-century composers. He wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. Recorded live from London's Royal Festival Hall, in Walton's presence, the celebrated And

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  • アスペクト比 ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • メーカーにより製造中止になりました ‏ : ‎ いいえ
  • 言語 ‏ : ‎ 英語
  • 製品サイズ ‏ : ‎ 17.3 x 13.7 x 1 cm; 167.83 g
  • EAN ‏ : ‎ 0807280911190
  • メディア形式 ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray, クラシック
  • 発売日 ‏ : ‎ 2015/6/29
  • 出演 ‏ : ‎ Chung, Philharmonia, Previn
  • 字幕: ‏ : ‎ 英語, ドイツ語, フランス語
  • 言語 ‏ : ‎ 英語 (PCM Stereo), 不明 (PCM Stereo)
  • 販売元 ‏ : ‎ Arthaus
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00Y3MP0V0
  • ディスク枚数 ‏ : ‎ 1
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John D. Randolph
5つ星のうち5.0 Moving Performances
2016年8月4日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
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The performances are very fine and it is quite poignant to see the elderly and feeble Walton, one year before he died, so clearly moved by encomium. Recommended for any Walton fans.
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M. J. Nelson
5つ星のうち5.0 A Memorable Musical Occasion
2015年11月18日に英国でレビュー済み
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In the early spring of 1982 I was working in London and, as an ardent devotee of Walton's music, attended two of several concerts arranged to mark his 80th birthday. I did not, however, manage to attend the concert which features on this DVD, in which two of his greatest works, the Violin Concerto composed for Jascha Heifetz and the oratorio Belshazzar's Feast, are performed in the composer's presence. There is some superlative music-making here : Andre Previn, who conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, was a great advocate of Walton's
music and is ever alive to the composer's very individual idiom, in which sheer rhythmical vitality is often coupled with a soaring romantic lyricism. The soloists, Kyung-Wha Chung, in the Concerto, and Thomas Allen, in Belshazzar's Feast, make distinguished contributions, the latter's impassioned rendering of the baritone's role being nothing short of spellbinding. The programme also includes a longer version of the 1953 Coronation March Orb and Sceptre, a version which I confess I have never heard before. At the conclusion of the concert the obviously frail composer (who died the following year) is shown as visibly moved by the performances. Nowadays Walton's stock may not be as great as Britten's but this concert is a timely reminder that his major works still rate highly in the canon of 20th century symphonic music. One minor quibble about the DVD is that I would have liked a discreet commentary to add a more personal flavour to the proceedings. But to finish on a positive note, the accompanying booklet has two particularly fine photographs of the composer in his old age.
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5つ星のうち4.0 Auspicious release
2015年9月28日に英国でレビュー済み
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I vividly remembered some of this concert being on television in 1982. It was a BBC offering. From BBC-2 I believe in the glorious days when it used to qualify as a proper channel for the arts (pre once again fate-threatened BBC-4), often with Humphrey Burton presiding (and who directed the unfussy professional filming of this event) . I also believe it was an edited version of the live broadcast, not a complete coverage of the entire event, dedicated to William Walton for his 80th birthday.

The by this time frail composer had journeyed from his Italian retreat to attend and was visibly moved by the reception accorded to him. In the concert hall box reserved for dignitaries he was accompanied on his left by his lovely vivacious wife. Royalty is represented by Princess Alexandra seated to his right. Did all right for a person with humble beginnings in Oldham!

I was overjoyed to come across this visual record of the complete concert. This opens with a rousing God Save the Queen (using some erstwhile arrangement tweaking by Walton possibly? The programme doesn't say).

The next item, the composer's Orb and Sceptre March, was produced for Elizabeth II's 1953 Coronation, and that too is given a spirited reading. This includes a brief insertion, from the colour documentary which played in cinemas, of the future Queen's procession in Westminster Abbey and an outside view of her gold coach hauled before crowds by horses.

Having been always enthusiastic about Walton's music (whether for concert or film) I still had not until now heard Belshazzar's Feast. This is judged to be one of his masterworks and which made him popular after the "don't know what to make of him and that weird Façade thing," referring to the "enfant terrible" early phase in the 1920s. So from the 1930s on through talent and sheer hard work he became Britain's most likely successor to Elgar (still living when Walton thus emerged). There is no doubting the commitment of Previn, the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, plus that fine baritone the late Thomas Allen in the vocal lead, of this uniquely conceived cantata which uses large forces, yet is incisive and compact in true Waltonian fashion.

As I inferred this is a valuable visual/audio record of a special event. A historical one with decent picture and sound. In fact on the Blu-ray format it seemed there was more detail in the sound than I recall from the TV showing and Kyung-Wha Chung's particular violin timbre is well captured, the concerto certainly sounding miles better than on the disappointing YouTube reproduction.

As an aside personally I prefer hearing choral works on CD or radio. I have a thing about the stuffiness continuing even today of men performing in Penguin suits, Opera therefore being much more suited to DVD in my opinion. Previn used to make valiant attempts on his TV appearances of putting his players in smart more up-to-date gear, but alas it did not last long.

Sadly, the hidebound establishment still persist (like judiciary in 18th century wigs) with outmoded tradition. Small wonder young people are inclined to avoid classical music concerts, and I speak as someone in his seventies. I can tolerate this situation on this Blu-ray however because it records an event of more than 30 years ago. Also, the women's gowns have always looked nice...

In one area whoever was responsible for the menu did a sloppy, lazy job. No chapters are provided for individual works, movements or sections. When I use the remote skip feature I find that sometimes it's still on the same movement or on a mid-section or misses out the opening of the succeeding work. I removed a star for that reason. Thankfully for Belshazzar's Feast subtitles are available in English, German and French at least. 10+ out of 10 for the concert? (so let's say 4¾ stars!).

As for the preceding Violin concerto this was famously premiered in 1939 by Jascha Heifetz no less (there is a contemporary still of the great man displayed momentarily but no caption).

In comparatively recent times I absolutely love Chung and Previn's way with this concerto. To my mind nothing bests their fine 1973 Decca
recording, with the LSO in great form. Walton attended at the studio, no doubt bringing encouragement and his affable wit with him, and was approached for advice on certain points, so alongside Heifetz it is to my mind one of the most genuinely authoritative readings from a feminine viewpoint.

The youthful Chung was truly inspired at these sessions and I would argue that no one has put this concerto on disc with more poetic fantasy and affection, not even Menuhin (who had the double advantage of Walton being conductor for his fêted recording).

That was a hard act to follow but again here in 1982 Chung, still only in her early 30's, acquits herself very well and is always an interesting and charismatic performer to watch, as well as to hear of course. Some may find her over-'animated' but I never had an issue about that. She feels the spirit of the music from the soles of her feet to the tips of her ears and reacts accordingly, so I am totally accepting of how she presents to an audience.

Who else embarks on that hushed opening so magically, repeated later and reappearing in the last movement, and alternates ice-fire with such sweet tenderness whilst characteristically nigh technically impeccable? Well deserved applause, and the audience called her back for another bow or two. Here she is a great among greats, live on rare film to boot.

It was as well that the concert took place when it did for Walton died the following year. Therefore we have a unique permanent valedictory visual record of the composer and a moment in musical history, to a packed-out house at the Royal Festival Hall, performed under the expert baton of "Mr Preview" (remember his appearances with Morecambe and Wise?).
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