Tuesday, May 22, 2012

ガーディナーの新譜モテット集 - Bach's Motets by Gardiner

ガーディナーの新譜CDが英国から届いた。バッハのモテット集で、これは昨年10月ロンドンでの演奏会録音だ。解説を読むと、カーディナーは11歳の頃にはソプラノパートを全曲、空で歌っていたそうだ。やはりそうした環境が今の彼をあらしめているわけだ。
さて僕の方はと言えば、正直モテットはそれほど聴き込んでいる曲ではない。長いBWV225と227に少し馴染みがある程度だ。バッハに音楽を学んだ生徒たちは皆これらの曲を歌ったし、完成度も引き込む力もバッハの作品中ピカイチだとガーディナーは書いているが、伴奏は通奏低音くらいでオケが加わるわけではないし、合唱者のためのレパートリーという印象が強い。僕はユングヘネルのCDを持っているが、OVPP(各声部一人)なので室内楽的なのに対して、モンテヴェルディ合唱団はもう少ししなやかに隅々まで統率された歌唱が見事だ。これをナマで聴けたら間違いなくもっと感動的だと思う。合唱にはそんな力があるから。




The new release of Gardiner and Monteverdi Choir arrived from UK. It is Motets by Bach, and the recording of their London concert last October. In the liner notes, Gardiner writes "by the time I was eleven or twelve I knew the treble parts of all of them more or less by heart", and I thought that was the very environment that made him grow successfully.
As for me, these motets are not so familiar except longer BWV 225 and 227. Without the accompaniment of full orchestra, the music tends to remain as Chorus repertoire. Gardiner continues to remind "Bach expected all his pupils to sing and to master" and concludes "the most perfect, and in some ways the most hypnotic, set amongst his works."
I have a CD by Junghänel which is sung in OVPP therefore more like intimate chamber music. In contrast, Gardiner is smoother and silky. If listened in live, this performance must have been undoubtedly touching with Monteverdi Choir's precisely controlled singing in every detail. The chorus can transmit such an immense power.

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