说个打岔的话,关于比切姆在RCA录制的《弥赛亚》,其配器的真正作者据说并不是尤金古森斯,而是另外的人。详见如下报道。
http://inkpot.com/classical/messiahbeecham.htmlOops. Recently, in the pages of Gramophone, Lady Shirley Beecham has written to clarify that the 1959 Beecham recording of Messiah, reviewed here, was in fact not orchestrated by Sir Eugene Goossens. According to her, Sir Thomas had engaged Sir Eugene to arrange the oratorio for a full modern orchestra, but as time passed, Sir Thomas found the latter's pace and quality of work unimpressive.
As time was running short, Sir Thomas asked one Leonard Salzedo - a musician (and composer) in the Royal Philharmonic - to undertake the task. Oddly, Sir Goossens was the one paid for the job eventually (and damn well) done - the man never even attended the recording sessions.
Lady Beecham suggests that Sir Thomas did not want to embarass his life-long friend, and so, rather than reveal the truth, simply made no mention of the nature of the situation in the booklet notes of the RCA album.
Info compiled from letter by Shirley, Lady Beecham. Gramophone June 1999.