4 Piano Pieces 伯惠斯特 鋼琴小品 鋼琴獨奏 博浩版

這四首小品表面上看似簡單，卻能讓人窺見伯特威斯特爾大型作品的技術理念。旋律的旋律》是 2000 年布列茲 75 歲生日時獻給他的作品，並在當天首演。同年創作的《貝蒂-弗裡曼：她的探戈》是送給他的美國朋友和支持者貝蒂-弗裡曼的 80 歲生日禮物。根據她名字的節奏，作曲家提出了一個持續的四音符想法，作曲家承認這可能更像是一首哈瓦那舞曲--紗布後面的探戈。同樣，《薩拉班德》（Saraband： 同樣，《薩拉班德：國王的告別》扭曲了標題中暗示的舞蹈，從未完全重複第一小節的節奏。這首曲子寫於 2001 年，是為了讓羅伯特-基利（Robert Keeley）在伯特威斯特爾於 1994 年起擔任亨利-珀塞爾作曲教授的倫敦國王學院的告別音樂會上演奏。他曾將其稱為 "青春期的旋律"，但其調式特徵和憂鬱的情緒已顯示出他日後音樂的鮮明特徵"

作曲家: Birtwistle, Sir Harrison
樂器: piano
出版社: Boosey & Hawkes

曲目:
Ostinato with Melody - Betty Freeman: Her Tango - Saraband: The King’s Farewell - Oockooing Bird

原文簡介:
These four short pieces, though simple on the surface, all give glimpses in miniature of the technical ideas which characterise Birtwistle’s larger works. Ostinato with Melody, dedicated to Boulez on his 75th birthday in 2000 and first performed on that very day, superimposes a cantabile melody over the characteristic device of a constantly-changing ostinato. Written in the same year, Betty Freeman: Her Tango was an 80th birthday present for his American friend and supporter, Betty Freeman, a patron to an astonishing variety of composers. From the rhythm of her name an insistent four-note idea evolved, which the composer acknowledges is perhaps more of a habanera – a tango behind gauze. Similarly, Saraband: The King’s Farewell distorts the dance implied in its title, never exactly repeating the rhythm of its first bar. It was written in 2001 for Robert Keeley to play at Birtwistle’s farewell concert at King’s College, London, where he had been Henry Purcell Professor of Composition since 1994.Written in his mid-teens, Oockooing Bird is Birtwistle’s earliest extant composition. He has referred to it as “an adolescent melody” but its modal character and melancholic mood already point to distinctive traits in his later music.