Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten 佩爾特．阿爾沃 總譜 環球版

這首曲子是派特向 1976 年去世的本傑明-布裡頓致敬的作品。阿爾沃-帕爾特 在過去的歲月裡，我們在音樂世界中失去了許多值得悼念的人。為什麼本傑明-布裡頓的逝世日期--1976 年 12 月 4 日--會如此觸動我的心弦？在這段時間裡，我顯然已經認識到了這種損失的嚴重性。我心中產生了莫名的負罪感，甚至比負罪感更強烈。我剛剛發現了布裡頓。就在他去世之前，我開始欣賞他音樂中不尋常的純淨--我曾在紀堯姆-德-馬肖特的民謠中感受到同樣的純淨。此外，長久以來我一直想親自見見布裡頓--而現在卻沒有機會了"

作曲家: Paert, Arvo
樂器: for string orchestra and bell
出版社: Universal Edition
原文簡介:
This piece is Pärt's tribute to Benjamin Britten who died in 1976. Arvo Pärt: In the past years we have had many losses in the world of music to mourn. Why did the date of Benjamin Britten's death - 4 December 1976 - touch such a chord in me? During this time I was obviously at the point where I could recognize the magnitude of such a loss. Inexplicable feelings of guilt, more than that even, arose in me. I had just discovered Britten for myself. Just before his death I began to appreciate the unusual purity of his music - I had had the impression of the same kind of purity in the ballads of Guillaume de Machaut. And besides, for a long time I had wanted to meet Britten personally - and now it would not come to that.

'The last chord of Cantus is seemingly never-ending. It just stands there, neither growing nor decaying. Something has been achieved and it shouldn't be given up. The content of the whole work leads up to this point.' Nora Pärt