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津田ホール:松尾コンサート [音楽時評]

2月26日,津田ホールに第18回の松尾コンサートを聴きに行ってきました.

出演者と曲目は,
クァルテット アーニマ(Vn:山崎貴子,甲斐摩耶(平田 文の代役),Va:吉田 篤,Vc:窪田 亮)  
               モーツアルト;弦楽四重奏曲 第14番 ト長調 KV387
アベルト弦楽四重奏団(Vn:田之倉雅秋,近藤 薫,Va:坂口弦太郎,Vc:西山健一)                                  ドビュッシー;弦楽四重奏曲ト短調 作品10   
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ウエールズ弦楽四重奏団(Vn:崎谷直人,三原久遠,Va:原 裕子,Vc:富岡廉太郎)                                    ベートーヴェン;弦楽四重奏曲第15番 作品132 
でした.

クァルテット アーニマのモーツアルトは,ハイドン・セットの第1番で中期の傑作といわれ「春」という呼び名も見られます.いきなり速いテンポで始まりますが,歌心の豊かな楽章です.第2楽章はメヌエットですが,elegant and light で, its sudden changes in dynamics in both the main theme and second subject が印象的です.第3楽章 Andante Cantabile は with many highs accompanied by deep lows from the cello. The whole movement conveys a serene, almost celestial quality, at times sounding mysterious, at others rapturous とあるように,チェロの好演が光りました.第4楽章はフーガとソナタ形式の融合型で,特に第2主題の美しさが印象的です.
第2ヴァイオリンが体調不良で交替したにもかかわらず,全体になかなかの好演だったと思います.

アベルト弦楽四重奏団は,東京芸大の出身者4人,広島響,元東フィル,にNHK響2人を加えた混成で,オーケルトラのハーモニーのなかで育っている4人がクァルテットをやる意義を強調していますが,ドビュッシーのこの唯一の弦楽四重奏曲は,第1楽章の主要主題が循環して現われる循環形式をとっており,微妙な和声を多用した曲です.                                それには,やはり違うオケの混成に少し問題があったようで,昨年もマツオコンサートで聴いていますが,とりわけドビュッシーのような曲の演奏には向いていなかったように思いました.

ウェールズ弦楽四重奏団を聴くのはこれで3度目くらいでしょうか,無神経に宣伝文句に使い続けているミュンヘンARD国際Competition から2人,第2ヴァイオリンとヴィオラが交替したのに,何の説明もしないのは欺瞞ではないでしょうか.                                  昨年のアツオコンサートと,秋にJTアートホールで聴いた感想では,旧メンバーと新メンバーの関係がまだしっくりいっておらず,その責任は旧メンバーにあると批判してきましたが,昨年からバーゼル音楽院でハーゲン弦楽四重奏団の第2ヴァイオリン,ライナー・シュミットの指導を受けていると書かれていました.                                                   今回はシュミットの指導が浸透したのか,昨年は新メンバーをないがしろにした演奏バランスの崩壊がすごく気になったのですが,今回その点はかなり大きく改善されていました.第1ヴァイオリンもチェロもたいへん抑制されて,4人のアンサンブルに相当の神経が使われていたように思います.                                                                             べートーヴェンの作品132については触れるまでもないでしょうが,この名曲が今日の楽器間のバランスの良い演奏をもたらしたといって良いのかも知れません. 
これまで批判を重ねてきましたが,今回の演奏は素直にかなり良かったと思います.これを忘れずに今後いっそう精進されるように期待します.ただ,ミュンヘン後のメンバー交代をクァルテット紹介のなかに明記すべきです

 

                                                   


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演奏直後,拍手,ブラボーで名演を台無しにする悪人 [音楽時評]

Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic のLondon residency が盛り上がりを見せたなかで,せっかくの名演奏がBravoないしBravi でぶち壊されたことがイギリス The Guardian 紙で厳しく糾弾されています.

Royal Restival Hall で行われた演奏会でMahler の第3番交響曲が華麗に終わった途端に,いきなり Bravi(Bravoの複数形)が叫ばれて,名演が一挙に ruin されたというのです.

Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic の最終夜で起こったことだそうですが,    It's music that ends with a huge final chord, a moment of D major apotheosis that's seemingly drawn out into the infinite. The silence afterwards was a chance to bask in the afterglow of the symphony's huge, cosmic architecture and the Berlin Philharmonic's equally cosmic sound. 

But it was a moment of dizzying collective rapture that was all too predictably ruined by some eejit in the Royal Festival Hall shouting "bravi!" – from one of the boxes, I'm pretty sure – before any of us, including the orchestra, had the chance to come down to earth again. There is no greater musical violence an audience member can commit than to scar this unique moment, when time seems to stop still at the end of a great performance, with a selfish, solo shout.

there's the ludicrous pretentiousness of using the Italian plural form, "bravi", as if to show the rest of the audience, and Rattle and the players too, that he's clever enough to know the correct endings of Italian adjectives,

と音楽に対する暴力だとたいへんな怒りようです.こうした人物には罰金を課して,今後の来場を入場停止処分で防ぐべきだと息巻いています.                                                  この記事全体がその怒りで埋められていますが,私も,最近,サントリーホールでこうした間髪を入れないBravoに悩まされている1人として,この記事を是非ご紹介したいと思いました.

このThe Guardian の記事はアメリカでも反響があり,Should badly behaving audience members be fined? というタイトルの記事を掲載し,London の出来事と記事の内容を詳細に伝えて,こうした聴衆には罰金を課すべきか?という POLL をとっています.

ごく初期のPoll を紹介しますと,

Yes: The audience has a duty to remain silent. Anything less is selfish. 47.73% (21 votes)
 
Sometimes: But the early clapper/shouter should be banned. 29.55% (13 votes)
 
No way: I paid for my seat, so I should be able to make as much noise as I want. 22.73% (10 votes)
と個人主義を反映したモノになっています.                                  しかし,静かにすべきだという意見が多いようですから,サントリーホールでも,是非,開演前のアナウンスで注意を喚起して欲しいと思います.



  

Rattled: how to ruin a classical music concert

The idiot who shouted 'bravi' at Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic shattered the rapture that follows a great rendition.

Simon Rattle with the Berlin Philharmonic, London 2011             'Radiant' ... Simon Rattle with the Berlin Philharmonic. Photograph: Mark Allan

And so, having taken the audience to the heights of late-romantic bliss with the gigantic hymn of love and compassion in the finale of Mahler's Third Symphony, Simon Rattle's London residency with the Berlin Philharmonic came to its radiant conclusion last night. It's music that ends with a huge final chord, a moment of D major apotheosis that's seemingly drawn out into the infinite. The silence afterwards was a chance to bask in the afterglow of the symphony's huge, cosmic architecture and the Berlin Philharmonic's equally cosmic sound.

But it was a moment of dizzying collective rapture that was all too predictably ruined by some eejit in the Royal Festival Hall shouting "bravi!" – from one of the boxes, I'm pretty sure – before any of us, including the orchestra, had the chance to come down to earth again. There is no greater musical violence an audience member can commit than to scar this unique moment, when time seems to stop still at the end of a great performance, with a selfish, solo shout.

And then there's the ludicrous pretentiousness of using the Italian plural form, "bravi", as if to show the rest of the audience, and Rattle and the players too, that he's clever enough to know the correct endings of Italian adjectives, rather than using the "bravo" that anyone else in this country would recognise or employ. There should be fines for this sort of thing (as well as for the jewellery-rattlers that Charlotte Higgins had to put up with in seat S62 at the Barbican) – sanctions that mean you forfeit your right to hear Mahler or Bruckner in public again until you learn that it's not big and it's not clever.

In fact, it's musical hooliganism that's psychopathic, narcissistic and destructive. We came to hear Mahler and the BPO last night, mate, not a solo spot from somebody who wants to show us all how much cleverer he is than us because he knows when the music's finished. Somebody there last night knows who it was, surely (as well as whoever's mobile phone it was that went off twice in the earlier movements). Over to you.

 

Should badly behaving audience members be fined?

Clapping

We all know him. The early clapper. There seems to be one at every concert. Just as the music ends, or indeed sometimes even before the final note is sounded, inevitably, someone dives in like an overexcited seal and ruins the mood. It's a pet peeve of many a fan of classical music.

Tom Service, a music writer for the Guardian has his panties in a bunch about another concert-going archetype that ruined his post-Berlin Phil Mahler 3 cuddle: the premature "Bravi!" shouter. 

In Service's words, "There is no greater musical violence an audience member can commit than to scar this unique moment, when time seems to stop still at the end of a great performance, with a selfish, solo shout. And then there's the ludicrous pretentiousness of using the Italian plural form, 'bravi', as if to show [everyone] that he's clever enough to know the correct endings of Italian adjectives ..." 

Service goes on to suggest that these people should be fined.

The irony of all this is, of course, that audience behavior has improved immeasurably since we've had access to recorded music. So now hearing a pristine version seems to have made us hyper-sensitive to every sniffle, cough or crinkle.

In Service's defense, an ill-timed shout or clap can immediately dissipate the energy an ensemble has spent the last 90 minutes creating.  On the other hand, part of that energy was created by experiencing the music along with 2,500 other people -- program shuffling, texting and, yes, shouting, notwithstanding.

What's the worst audience behavior you've encountered and how much are you willing to put up with in exchange for the privilege of hearing live music?  How do Los Angeles audiences compare with other cities'?

Let us know in the comments section and take our poll.


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