★ 留声机(GRAMOPHONE)一百大
号称录音史上一百套最伟大的唱片
阿格里奇是当代著名的钢琴家，她的演奏技巧高超，音色华丽，风格浪漫豪放，琴声铿锵有力‘气势磅礴，又甜蜜温柔、细腻柔美，被人称为“音乐的女大祭司”。本片阿格里奇收录曲目包括李斯特、萧邦、勃拉姆斯等作曲家的著名钢琴作品，她对这些作品精彩演绎，成为乐迷们争相收藏的目标！
The debut recording by the Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich took the public by the storm all over the world – and the applause has still not subsided! A mere glance at the repertoire shows that she was reaching for the stars. To bring five composers together on an LP of roughly 45 minutes length means nothing other than speaking five different musical languages – and Martha Argerich proves herself a master of them all! The demonic opening of the Scherzo in C sharp minor gives way to an iridiscent dialogue which sings and sparkles beyond compare. The Barcarolle rocks gently along; Prokofiev’s Toccata is filled with dynamic force and nervous agitation; Ravel’s Jeux d’eau is pensive and introverted, with the water rippling in a circular motion. As a contrast, the two famous Brahms Rhapsodies are performed with passion, impetuosity and occasionally the required heaviness.
This recording is surely one of the brightest candles to burn anew on Deutsche Grammophon’s birthday cake.

Ryuichi Sakamoto’s ravishing and rare solo piano suite ‘BTTB’ is finally issued on vinyl - expanded, reshuffled, and newly replete with liner notes by none other than Haruki Murakami. Trust it’s swoon-worthy stuff.
Originally released in 1998 and hard to get hold of outside of Japan, ‘BTTB’, or ‘Back To The Basics’ is now reissued on 2LP to mark its 20th anniversary. It’s effectively a definitive edition of ‘BTTB’, reshuffled from the original 2LP pressing to also include ‘Energy Flow’ from the BTTB’ maxi-single, (which peaked at No.4 in the Japanese singles charts), as well as the slippery elegance of ‘Reversing’, both on the vinyl album for the first time.
Tech specs aside, this new edition is a sumptuous testament to Sakamoto’s effortlessly natural, poetic evocations of emotion, by then channelling some 30 years work as an arranger of classic synthpop (YMO, collabs with David Sylvian), and seminal soundtracks (Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence; The Last Emperor) into some of his most stripped down yet affective music, hovering on the line between precise, mindful composition and intuitively fluid improvisation.
While the majority of the material here features Sakamoto playing conventionally beautiful solo piano with magnificent highlights on the likes of ‘Opus’, he also extends into experimental, prepared piano on a handful of pieces, both serene and frantic, such as ‘Prelude’, ‘Sonata’ and ‘Uetax’, cannily resonating with Aphex Twin’s prepared piano pieces on ‘Drukqs’, which were released just two years later.

历史上只有一张唱片同时登上企鹅三星带花、日本唱片艺术名曲三百、《留声机》百大、DG 100（英国的Gramophone杂志为纪念Deutsche Grammophon的百岁生日，特别评选出的榜单，名为「DG百年历史最伟大的百张唱片」），Classic CD百大（由台湾著名古典音乐杂志《CD Hi》推出）五份权威榜单！这张唱片就是由卡洛斯克莱伯指挥维也纳爱乐乐团录制的贝多芬第五交响曲、第七交响曲。
当录音技术发展到本世纪中期以后，在那么多伟大指挥家都一再与一流乐团录过贝多芬的交响曲之后，几乎没有人相信还有谁能在这些音乐中找出更多令人振奋的新素材，可是一九七五年，克莱巴的第五、七号交响曲录音出现了，这是一份真正伟大的录音！这张是唱片史上不朽的经典之作，是经典中的经典。
如果你的唱片架只允许一张唱片，那么留下的一定是这一张！