Personae IV-VI 莫,尼可拉斯

尼古拉斯-莫（Nicholas Maw）於 1985 年秋季創作了這三首各具特色且極具考驗性的鋼琴作品，試圖繞過戰後鋼琴作品的許多特徵，繼承'舊'鋼琴主義的傳統。 在長達 25 分鐘的時間裡，這些作品將鋼琴作為一種供演奏家使用的獨奏畫室管弦樂隊，並在創作過程中充分考慮到了演奏樂器的物理特性；觸摸的動作、手在鍵盤上的移動方式、和絃或音符在手指下的形狀和感覺、鍵盤伴奏的原型、對連音線條的控制--馬烏稱之為'歌曲的蛻變'"

作曲家: Maw, Nicholas
樂器: Piano
出版社: Faber Music
原文簡介:
In these three characterful and testing piano studies, composed in the autumn of 1985, Nicholas Maw sought to bypass many of the characteristics of post-war piano writing and take up where the ‘old’ pianism left off. Over their 25-minute span, they take the instrument as a kind of solo drawing room orchestra put at the disposal of a virtuoso player, and were written with the physical characteristics of playing the instrument very much in mind; the act of touch, how the hands move on the keyboard, the shape and feel of a chord or note-cluster under the fingers, the archetypes of keyboard accompaniment figures, the control of a legato line – what Maw described as ‘the metamorphosis of song’. ‘Never seemingly anachronistic or reactionary, the pieces caress, ravish, astound and seriously engage the ear.’ The Financial Times (Paul Driver), 10 June 1986 ‘This is virtuoso music in weight as much as technique.’ The Times (Paul Grifiths), 9 June 1986