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Colin Davis

A watan Satumba na 1967, an nada Colin Davies a matsayin babban jagoran kungiyar makada ta BBC, don haka ya zama shugaban mafi karancin shekaru na daya daga cikin mafi kyawun makada na Ingilishi a tarihinta - tun daga 1930. Duk da haka, wannan bai ba kowa mamaki ba, domin mai zane ya riga ya sami damar samun nasara. suna mai ƙarfi, kuma ya sami karɓuwa a ƙasashen waje a Ingila.

Duk da haka, matakan farko na Davis a filin madugu ba su da sauƙi. Tun yana matashi ya yi karatun Clarmette a Royal College of Music da ke Landan, kuma bayan kammala karatunsa ya yi wasa a mawakan kade-kade da dama na kimanin shekaru hudu.

Davies ya fara daukar sandar ne a shekarar 1949, inda ya jagoranci sabuwar mawakan Kalmar kade-kade da aka kirkira, kuma a shekara ta gaba ya zama shugaban wata karamar kungiya mai suna Chelsea Opera Group. Amma ya dade kawai 'yan watanni, kuma Davis, wanda ya bar sana'a na clarinetist, ba ya aiki na dogon lokaci. Lokaci-lokaci yana samun dama don gudanar da ƙwararrun mawaƙa da mawaƙa da makaɗa. A ƙarshe, BBC ta gayyace shi zuwa ga mataimakin jagoran ƙungiyar makaɗa ta Scotland a Glasgow. Kuma ba da daɗewa ba bayan haka, ya fara halarta a Landan tare da wani kade-kade a cikin zagayowar “Young Conductors”, kuma jaridar Evening News ta lura da “fitacciyar hazakar wannan mai fafutuka.” A lokaci guda kuma, Davis ya sami damar maye gurbin Klemperer mara lafiya kuma ya gudanar da wasan kwaikwayo na Don Juan a zauren bikin Royal, sannan ya yi maimakon Thomas Beecham kuma ya gudanar da wasanni takwas na The Magic Flute a Glyndebourne. A shekarar 1958 ya zama madugu na kungiyar Sadler's Wells, kuma a shekarar 1960 ya zama babban madugun wasan kwaikwayo.

A cikin shekaru masu zuwa, shaharar Davis ya karu da sauri. Rikodi akan rikodi, bayyanar rediyo da talabijin, kide-kide da wasan kwaikwayo suna biyo bayan ɗaya. Davis ya yi tafiya zuwa yawancin kasashen Turai; a 1961 ya samu nasarar yi a cikin Tarayyar Soviet.

Shirye-shiryensa sun haɗa da Fantastic Symphony na Berlioz, Jana'izar Britten da Symphony na nasara, Tippett's Concerto for Double String Orchestra, Stravinsky's Symphony in Uku Motsi, da adadin sauran abubuwan da aka tsara. Jama'a na Soviet nan da nan sun ƙaunaci matashin ɗan wasan kwaikwayo.

K. Davis da kansa ya ɗauki kansa da farko mawaƙi ne, sannan kuma madugu. Saboda haka repertoire nasa tausayi. "Ina son duka wasan opera da wasan opera daidai," in ji shi. "Bayan haka, ga mawaƙa, tambayar ingancin kiɗan tana da mahimmanci, kuma ba nau'insa ba." Wannan shine dalilin da ya sa ana iya ganin sunan Colin Davis daidai sau da yawa akan duka shagunan kide kide da wasan kwaikwayo: yana jagorantar wasan kwaikwayo a Covent Garden, yana ba da kide-kide da yawa, yana haɓaka kiɗan zamani na mawaƙan Ingilishi - Britten, Tippett. Ayyukan Stravinsky suna kusa da shi, kuma daga cikin litattafai, ya fi yawan gudanar da Mozart.

L. Grigoriev, J. Platek, 1969