Leonard Bernstein – The Symphony Edition
                                      CD49 – Harold Shapero – Symphony, Igor Stravinsky – Symphon
                      伯恩斯坦交响曲大全集 之 CD49 夏皮罗交响曲 、斯特拉文斯基诗篇交响曲
                      作      曲：Harold Shapero 夏皮罗 (tracks: 1 to 4) 
                                    Igor Stravinsky 斯特拉文斯基 (tracks: 5 to 7)
                      指      挥：Leonard Bernstein 伯恩斯坦
                      乐      团：New York Philharmonic 纽约爱乐管弦乐团

                      厂      牌：SONY
                      CD  编  号：886976836528
                      发行日期：2010-10-8 （合集发行日）

Harold Shapero 夏皮罗
      Harold Shapero (born 29 April 1920) is an American composer.
      Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, Shapero and his family later moved to nearby Newton. He learned to play the piano as a child, and for some years was a pianist in dance orchestras. With a friend, he founded the Hal Kenny Orchestra, a swing-era jazz band.
      More interested in classical music, though, in his s he studied with quite some famous teachers, including Nicholas Slonimsky (editor of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians) in 1936, and Ernst Krenek in 1937. At 18 he was ready to go to Harvard, where he studied composition with Walter Piston in 1938, and Paul Hindemith in 1940.
      Tanglewood, a now cherished musical institution, was founded in the 1940s, and Shapero was one of its first students. When Igor Stravinsky was Norton Professor at Harvard in 1940, Shapero showed Stravinsky his Nine-Minute Overture. Shapero hoped to get the Overture played at Tanglewood in the summer of that year, but Paul Hindemith ordered that no student compositions would be played that season. Fortunately, Aaron Copland hastily put together an Orchestra just to play student compositions deemed worthy, including Shapero's Overture. (Unfortunately, the staffing of that Orchestra was rather uneven, and not really able to do justice to the scores.).
      Shapero was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1941 for his Nine-Minute Overture, but unfortunately, the war prevented him from taking his well-earned residency in Italy.
      After graduating from Harvard's Class of 1941, Shapero undertook further studies with Nadia Boulanger. Boulanger came to the United States from Europe, seeking respite from the ravages of World War II. While studying with Boulanger, Shapero was also in contact with Stravinsky, who was helpful in his critiques of Shapero's music.
      In 1945, Shapero married the painter Esther Geller. Throughout the rest of the decade they were often residents at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, an artists' retreat established by the widow of Edward MacDowell. There Shapero composed his Symphony for Classical Orchestra.
      In 1947, Stravinsky and Shapero met again, and Shapero showed Stravinsky the score of the Symphony for Classical Orchestra. After looking at the score of the Symphony, Stravinsky advised Shapero to become a conductor. Leonard Bernstein conducted the world premiere performance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
      Aaron Copland thought highly of Shapero's technical skill and spontaneity of musical inspiration. One thing bothered him, though: In a 1948 New York Times article, he wrote that "Stylistically, Shapero seems to feel a compulsion to fashion his music after some great model. Thus, his ... Serenade ... is founded upon neoclassical Stravinskian principles, his three Amateur Piano Sonatas on Haydnesque principles, and his recent long Symphony [for Classical Orchestra] is modeled after Beethoven. ... he seems to be suffering from a hero-worship complex — or perhaps it is a freakish attack of false modesty..."
      Brandeis University was founded in 1948, and in 1951 they hired Shapero to start its Music Department, and he was later chairman of the department and founder of its electronic music studio with the day's most advanced synthesizers. He taught at Brandeis for 37 years.
      In 1953 his daughter Hannah M.G. Shapero was born, and she was to follow in her mother's footsteps and become a painter.
      When awarded the Fulbright Fellowship in 1961, Shapero took the opportunity to travel to Europe with his family for a year. In 1970 he returned to Europe to be composer-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome.
      Andre Previn and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, spearheaded a revival of Shapero's Symphony for Classical Orchestra, under the auspices of the AT & T American Encore program. Andre Previn has recognized the value of the Symphony and has done much to promote it in the United States (with performances in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New York and of course, Los Angeles) and the European Community (with performances in London, Amsterdam and Madrid).
      In 1988, Shapero retired from Brandeis University to devote himself to composition. As of 2003, Shapero is still actively composing for both acoustic and electronic instruments.
      Browsing through the score of Shapero's Symphony for Classical Orchestra, one doesn't see too many modern notational quirks. The scoring is pretty much for a "classical Orchestra": regular woodwinds in pairs, plus a piccolo and a contrabassoon, pairs of horns and trumpets, three trombones, three timpani tuned to expected triad positions, and the standard complement of strings. This Symphony is in B flat major. The use of accidentals is much lighter than say, in a work of Anton Bruckner.
      While Shapero uses some modern notation in his scores, he uses it in a clear way, employing procedures that have already been established by other modern composers or creating his own notation from traditional notation in a sensible way. For example, David Cope's handbook on modern music notation credits Shapero with the creation of the divisi bowing notation (simply the old bowing symbols combined), a notation which Cope recommends other composers should use.
      Shapero addressed the issue of "hero-worship" and musical inspiration in a series of essays in the 1940s entitled The Musical Mind.
      One of the first recordings of the Symphony for Classical Orchestra, was by Leonard Bernstein and the Columbia Symphony Orchestra on the CRI label. Andre Previn and the Los Angeles Philharmonic recorded it along with the Nine Minute Overture on a New World CD. New World has also released Boriskin's performances of three Piano Sonatas. The Previn recording of the Symphony can be purchased online from Amazon.com. Many more recordings have been made, but unfortunately a lot of them are out of print.
      Such records can still be found in the libraries of universities and public libraries. For example, a 35 rpm recording of Shapero's Piano Sonata in D major by harpsichordist Sylvia Marlowe on the Decca label. On the record cover, Marlowe quotes Shapero as saying that "Since the work was completed with the aid of Baroque and pre-Classical keyboard traditions, the version for harpsichord seems to me entirely natural."
      Shapero won the Prix de Rome in 1941 for the Nine-Minute Overture. The jurors were Howard Barlow, Howard Hanson, Leo Sowerby, Walter Piston and Albert Stoessel. The prize consisted of US$1000 and a residency in Italy, which Shapero was unable to take because of the war. The 2nd Annual George Gershwin Memorial Concert, sponsored by B'nai B'rith Victory Lodge of Newton Center, Massachusetts, featured Shapero's Serenade in D, as part of a prize which also included publication with royalties and US$1000, and Leonard Bernstein was chairman fo the judges' committee. In 1946 Shapero won the Joseph H. Bearns Prize of US$1200 for the Symphony for String Orchestra. Shapero has also won two Guggenheim Fellowships (in 1947 and in 1948), two Fulbright Fellowship (in 1948 and in 1960), and a Naumburg Fellowship.
      Shapero is grouped in the "Boston school" along with Arthur Berger, Lukas Foss, Irving Fine, Alexie Haieff, and Claudio Spies.

Igor Stravinsky 斯特拉文斯基
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Igor Stravinsky – Symphony of Psalms 诗篇交响曲
      这首交响曲应库塞维茨基之约，为波士顿交响乐团成立50周年而作，作于1930年，呈献给波士顿交响乐团。该年12月13日由安塞美指挥在布鲁塞尔首演，库塞维茨基指挥波士顿交响乐团首演于该年12月19日。共3个乐章：1.在布鲁塞尔首演时节目单上标明为“前奏曲”，总谱上无标示。以乐队奏E小调主和弦始，与双簧管、低音管琶音交替，圆号与大提琴先奏合唱主题，女低音唱叹息般的祈祷。四声合唱后，双簧管琶音为间奏，合唱主题后是男高音、女高音。被全体和弦中断后．女低音、男低音再引出四部合唱，女低音祈祷主题由男高音、女高音表现后，以G大调主和弦结束。这个乐章唱词使用《诗篇》第三十八篇第十三、十四节，用拉丁语。2.这个乐章有上帝聆听第一乐章祈祷意味，布鲁塞尔首演时节目单上注明为“双重赋格曲”。第一个C小调主题先用在导入部，以第一双簧管、第一长笛、第三长笛、第二双簧管顺序构成四部，主题反复以G小调高五度应答。接着，合唱为第二主题形成四部赋格，先是女高音、女低音低四度应答，接着男高音、男低音同样持续，乐队奏第一赋格主题片断，合唱与乐队交替，最后大提琴、低音提琴加小号把第一赋格主题奏成回声形态而结束。这个乐章歌词使用《诗篇》第三十九篇第二、三、四节。3.赞颂上帝的乐章，首演时节目单上注明“交响快板”。先以叹息般开始，圆号在有力的断音和弦反复下连接三连音符快速乐句，女高音唱与第一乐章祈祷主题类似乐句，女低音、男高音持续。情绪高涨后，速度减慢，回顾开头部分，变成快板。三连音符快速乐句后，速度又减慢，女高音与男低音以十二度平静的赋格演唱，最后在赞美上帝的再现中结束。

                      Harold Shapero – Symphony for Classical Orchestra
                            01.  I Adagio - Allegro
                            02.  II Adagietto
                            03.  III Scherzo
                            04.  IV Finale Allegro con spirito

                      Igor Stravinsky – Symphony of Psalms
                            05.  I Exaudi orationem meam
                            06.  II Expectans expectavi Dominum
                            07.  III Alleluja.Laudate Dominum

                      指挥：Leonard Bernstein 伯恩斯坦
                      乐团：
                      New York Philharmonic 纽约爱乐管弦乐团
                      London Symphony Orchestra 伦敦交响乐团(61,90)
                      Royal Danish Orchestra 皇家丹麦管弦乐团(74)
                      Columbia Symphony Orchestra 哥伦比亚交响乐团(89)

      这套是为了纪念伯恩斯坦（1918年8月25日--1990年10月14日）逝世20周年，特别发行的珍贵限量套装。收录的作品以交响曲为标的，涵盖音乐史上三百年来重要的作品，包含贝多芬、布拉姆斯、舒曼、西贝流士、马勒、西贝流士与伯恩斯坦本人的交响曲全集，同时也收录其他作曲家的主要作品。
      套装内容主要是伯恩斯坦担任纽约爱乐管弦乐团音乐总监时期前后的交响曲录音。伯恩斯坦于1958-1969年担任纽约爱乐的音乐总监，十余年的时间，完成许多令人称道的作品。
      专辑录音最早始自1953年的沙佩罗（Shapero）的交响曲，以至1976年录制的萧士塔高维契第14号交响曲「死亡之歌」与圣桑第3号交响曲「管风琴」，横跨四分之一个世纪的辉煌记录。
      全套六十张CD，採LP尺寸包装，精致的盒装与32页的原文解说，大大提升专辑的珍藏价值。

                      唱片公司：SONY & BMG
                      产品编号：886976836528
                      专 辑 数：60CD
                      发行时间：2010-10-8
                      市场价格：￥1275元