High Life

HIGH LIFE #15 Dec 2017 111 粹政权、保护其犹太裔儿媳及两个孙子 的描述。然而，现场演奏给笔者的第一 印象，却有如一战时代将军退役后的回 忆录。三个角度并不构成冲突，贯穿其 中的是德国哲学家弗里德里希• 尼采所 指，凡人的内心小宇宙与外在大世界之 间的斗争。 于1978年在拉脱维亚首都里加出 生的年轻指挥家安德里斯• 尼尔森斯 风华正茂，在其指挥下，维也纳爱乐乐 团展现无懈可击的技术、高超的造诣及 真挚动人的音乐情感，充分演绎作品的 深厚内涵。小提琴独奏部分如歌如泣， 令人不期然回想起一句老话：全盛时期 的维也纳爱乐乐团，旗下每一位乐师的 技术造诣之高，均足以独当一面。维也 纳爱乐乐团于1842年成立，其主场即 举世闻名的维也纳音乐协会大楼，其中 最具传奇色彩的音乐厅，正是辉煌横溢 的金色大厅。自成立以来，维也纳爱乐 乐团大概从未跌出全球最佳交响乐团三 甲之列，能与其争一日之长短的，可能 仅有柏林爱乐乐团和皇家音乐厅管弦乐 团。1942年理查德• 施特劳斯指挥阿 姆斯特丹音乐厅管弦乐团、1944年威 廉• 门德尔伯格指挥维也纳爱乐乐团 及1959年赫伯特• 冯• 卡拉扬指挥柏 林爱乐乐团的录音，当属《英雄生涯》 二十世纪的经典演出。 当晚，维也纳爱乐乐团在加演部分 演奏了两首脍炙人口的华尔兹舞曲，每 一首结束后均引起掌声雷动，气氛犹如 维也纳新年音乐会。全场起立鼓掌致敬 在澳门并不常见，却在谢幕时出现，主 因应是加演的华尔兹舞曲多于深邃强烈 的《英雄生涯》。2017年金秋，珠江三 角洲地区的音乐盛事此起彼落：维也纳 爱乐乐团先后在深圳和澳门演出，而柏 林爱乐乐团则在香港表演。 and detractors the adversaries. This remains the majority view, uncontested by the composer inter vivos. Alternatively, despite sheer anachronism, one could read it as his struggles against the Nazi regime in protecting his Jewish daughter-in- law and grandchildren. During the performance, however, the author’s immediate impression was one of a WWI-era general’s post-retirement mémoire. What unites all three readings is the Nietzschean notion of struggle between a man’s internal cosmos and external world. Under the baton of the Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons, born in Riga in 1978, Vienna Philharmonic delivered a technically impeccable, musically compelling and intensely emotive interpretation of a richly textured piece. The violin solo part was particularly lyrical, living up to the axiom that every musician of Vienna Philharmonic, at their best, is good enough to be a soloist. Founded in 1842 and calling the resplendent Musikverein its home, Vienna Philharmonic has never relinquished its status as one of the world’s top three orchestras, rivalled only by Berlin Philharmonic and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. The extraordinary 1942, 1944 and 1959 recordings of Ein Heldenleben by Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic and Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Willem Mengelberg, Richard Strauss and Herbert von Karajan respectively still exist today. Vienna Philharmonic performed two well-known waltzes as encores, each followed by thunderous applause, and the atmosphere was akin to the New Year’s Concert. Standing ovations at curtain call does not occur often, but it did, perhaps more for the encores than the intense Ein Heldenleben. It has been a scintillating autumn in the Pearl River Delta, with Vienna Philharmonic performing in Shenzhen and Macau, and Berlin Philharmonic in Hong Kong.