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録音日:2007年7月4日〜6日 Producer, Engineer, Edit:小伏和宏 《DSD recording》 Microphone: MBHO MBP604/KA1100K pair MBHO MBP604/KA100LK pair ※ ※for harpsichord solo Method:One point stereo A-B Pre-amp:Grace Design model 201 Recorder:TASCAM DV-RA1000 Clock:Rosendahl nanosyncs Monitor : Waon Recording Monitor 《96kHz 24bit PCM editing》 Cover design:才村昌子 http://www.saimura-masako.com/ |
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■Profile 広瀬奈緒(ソプラノ) マジッド・エル・ブシュラ(カウンターテナー) マリア・ザッカリアドゥ(バロック・チェロ) 林 美枝(チェンバロ) La Sfera Musicale met originally at the Royal College of Music in London 2001, from where they all graduated in 2003. A shared interest in the exploration and performance of the varied repertoire available for the combination of soprano, countertenor, Baroque 'cello and harpsichord prompted the formation and continuing collaboration of the group. While pursuing busy individual careers, performing both at home and abroad, the group have nevertheless established themselves as a young and exciting ensemble, having given concerts in England, Sweden and Japan, including a concert conducted by Maasaki Suzuki with the Sendai Baroque Orchestra. With several prizes and distinctions amongst them, they also collected the top prize at the International Early Music Competition 2005 in Yamanashi, Japan, and an 'Honourable Mention' prize at the 2006 Featival of Early Music in Brugge, Belgium. Future engagements include, amongst others, a second tour of Sweden, and performances in London, Oxford and Belgium. The group have received tuition and inspiration from many distinguished musicians such as Emma Kirkby, Stephen Preston, Nancy Argenta, Ashley Solomon, Jeremy West, Robert Woolley and Jennifer Ward Clarke. Nao Hirose was awarded a Postgraduate Diploma in Vocal Performance with distinction from the Faculty of Early Music at the Royal College of Music, London, in 2002. The following year she was also awarded an Advanced Diploma, and again graduated with distinction. Since graduating, she has given recitals as a soloist both in Britain and abroad, performing with various ensembles in Britain and Europe. As a soloist, she won an Honourable Mention at the Eighteenth International Early Music Competition in Yamanashi 2004. Since returning to Japan in 2004, Nao Hirose has performed in Handel's Messiah, Bach's St John passion and B minor Mass, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Mozart's Mass in C Minor, as well as in various concerts of music by Charpentier, Telemann, Buxtehude and Monteverdi. She has a particular interest in music of the English Baroque, by composers such as Dowland, Eccles, Blow and Arne, in which the quality of her English pronunciation and the depth of her expression have been widely recognised. She has performed with various ensembles, including the Canons Concert Chamber Choir, Bach Collegium Japan and Mozart Academy Tokyo. Her teachers include Yuko Suzuki, Mutsumi Hatano and Nancy Argenta. Magid El-Bushra, countertenor, was born in the Sudan and studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, the Royal College of Music, and at the Flanders OperaStudio in Ghent. He has sung in the opera Callirhoe by Destouches, with Le Concert Spirituel/Herve Niquet, and Oberon in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream for British Youth Opera. On the concert platform he has performed as a soloist in Charpentier's Epitaphium Carpentarii with Il Seminario Musicale/Gerard Lesne; the alto solos in Bach's Mass in A and Mass in G at the Festival de la Chaise Dieu, and the Festival de Rouen; Buxtehude's Das Juengste Gericht with Masaaki Suzuki and the Sendai Baroque Ensemble in Japan; the premiere of Klaus Huber's Miserere Hominibus at the Opera Bastille, Paris with Les Jeunes Solistes/Rachid Safir (also recorded on the Soupir label), and the premiere of Robert Platz' Boutaden for the Westdeustcherundfunk in Cologne. He has appeared in numerous broadcasts for BBC Radio 3, Radio Suisse and Radio France. Maria Zachariadou was born in Stockholm of Greek parentage. She has pursued her studies in baroque cello with Jennifer Ward-Clarke in London, as well as in Stockholm and D殱sseldorf. During her studies she gained full tuition scholarships and she was kindly supported by, amongst others, the Musicians Benevolent Fund and the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund. A member of the European Union Baroque Orchestra in the 2003/2004 season, Maria performed as the cello soloist with the Royal College of Music in the London Baroque Orchestra under Micaela Comberti's leadership. Other engagements have included performing as part of the Jerwood/Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment String Scheme and work with the renowned early music ensemble, Florilegium. Other baroque tuition, influences, inspiration and people she has worked with include Masaaki Suzuki, Alisson McGillivray, Cathrine Macintosh, Laurence Cummings and Roy Goodman. Maria is playing on a Robin Aitchison baroque cello made in Ely 1999. Mie Hayashi was born in Kyoto, Japan. In 1998 she moved to the UK and later graduated from both the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music with Distinction. Mie has appeared at Fenton House, Handel House, Banqueting House and St John's Smith Square. She has given concerto and solo performances at the London Bach Festival, London Handel Festival, Cheltenham International Music Festival and Barcelona Early Music Festival. Her performances have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Spanish Radio. She has shared on the concert platform with esteemed musicians such as Anner Bylsma, Max van Egmond, Masaaki Suzuki and Masahiro Arita, and has worked with the London Handel Orchestra, Classical Opera Company and Irish Baroque Orchestra (Soloists). Awards include the Ruth Dayson Early Keyboard Prize, the Amadeus Fortepiano Prize, the Croft Early Music Prize, also she was a finalist of the York Early Music Young Artists Competition in 2001. Her teachers include Laurence Cummings, Robert Woolly, the late John Toll and Kenneth Gilbert. |
| ■録音のこだわり 普段、演奏会の記録録音では合唱やヴォーカル・アンサンブル、そしてソロと、声楽の録音機会はむしろ器楽のみのものより多いかもしれないのですが、ワオンレーベルとしてはこれが初めての声楽ものになります。ワオンレーベルだけでなく、他社レーベルからの録音依頼でも、声楽ものは少ないのです。楽器ですら録音セッションで一日演奏していると疲れてきて、朝と夜とでは音色が微妙に変化します。ましてや生身の体では、楽器のように長時間同じ状態で歌い続けることは難しいわけです。本番セッションだけでなく、音決めのためのセッティングでも歌ってもらわなければならないですから、できるだけ短時間でセッティングを終え、本番も段取り良く進めていく必要があります。声楽の録音セッションの難しさは時間との勝負にあるとも言えます。時間をかけて良いものを作りたいけど時間はかけられないというところが、なかなか声楽ものを出しづらいというところにつながっています。マイクをたくさん立てて、マルチトラックで録って、間違ったところは間違ったところだけ録り直して差し替えるというような方法であれば、声楽家にとっては随分楽な話です。でもそれではなかなかアンサンブルとしての妙が録れないですね。だから今回もマイク2本のワンポイント収録。セッティングは経験を活かして短時間勝負。セッションの進行も、できるだけ歌い手さんが休めるような曲順を組んで、速やかに進行することで、何とか乗り切りました。 マイクには、微妙な声の色をうまく収録してくれる、大きな振動板を持ったMBHO MBP604/1100Kを使いました。ただこのマイク、振動板が大きいために、無指向性なのに高音部では指向性が出てしまうので、できるだけ音源側を軸上にそろえたいのですが、ソプラノの広瀬さんとカウンターテナーのマジッドの身長差は40cmもある! 仕方がないので指揮台2段積みでその上に広瀬さんに乗っていただいて背の高さを揃えました。その他は、短時間でのセッティングということもあって極オーソドックスなセッティングです。それでもガリバーホールの美しい残響も相まって、なかなかすてきなアンサンブルが録れました。 このCDを聴いていただくとき、普段使われているボリュームの位置だと音が少し小さく感じると思います。人の声というのは、意外とダイナミックレンジ(音の大小の差)が広く、さらにピークが立っているので、平均音量が低めの設定になっているからです。コンプレッサーかリミッターで少しピークを押さえてやれば、他の録音と音量感がそろうのですが、あえてそうはしていません。声楽家の本当のダイナミックスを生のまま感じていただきたいからです。ですので、普段よりちょっとだけボリュームを上げて聴いてみて下さい(目盛りがある場合は3.0dB前後上げてみて下さい)。ただし一番のピークの高さは他の録音と変わらないので、大きな声のところは大きくなるのでご注意を。人の声のエネルギーが感じられると思いますよ。 |