Violin Concerto 小提琴協奏曲 總譜 朔特版

我的小提琴協奏曲》為古典規模的管弦樂隊配樂，加入了豎琴和天琴，時長約 17 分鐘。雖然這部作品旨在探索獨奏樂器的抒情特性，但小提琴只是逐漸找到了自己完整的抒情聲音，然後隨著作品的發展，小提琴的作用也越來越大。從某種意義上說，這就是樂曲的 "旅程"。該作品在形式上簡單明瞭，由三個樂章（大致為快-慢-快）組成，並以反思性的引子和尾聲為框架。然而，這些形式上的劃分存在于一個單一的、不間斷的弧線之中。這種整體對稱的形式將慢板詠歎調（本身分為三個小節）置於中點，夾在兩個快板樂章之間。 樂曲的戲劇性集中在兩方面的探索上。首先是不斷追求 "重拾 "開頭小節中由小提琴獨奏--豎琴低音伴奏--所陳述的簡單旋律素材。雖然這段旋律的某些方面在整個樂章中經常出現（尤其是在結束詠歎調樂章的小提琴快板中），但只有在作品最後也是最重要的高潮部分，這段旋律才以完整的形式再次出現，並伴隨著管弦樂的猛烈敲擊。第二次尋找的是音調的歸宿，但這一歸宿直到尾聲才姍姍到來。小提琴協奏曲》原版受荷蘭室內樂團委託，於 2012 年 2 月在阿姆斯特丹首演，由戈丹-尼科利奇擔任獨奏。現在的修訂版是為巴納巴斯-凱勒曼和哈雷樂團創作的。謹以此文獻給我的朋友奧利弗-克努森（Oliver Knussen）。(Ryan Wigglesworth）

作曲家: Wigglesworth, Ryan
樂器: violin and orchestra
出版社: Schott Music
原文簡介:
My Violin Concerto is scored for a Classical-sized orchestra, with the addition of a harp and celeste, and lasts around 17 minutes. Although the work sets out to explore the lyrical characteristics of the solo instrument, it is only gradually that the violin finds its full, lyric voice, and thence, as the work progresses, a more dominant role. This, in one sense, is the ‘journey’ of the piece.The work’s straightforward formal scheme consists of three movements (roughly fast–slow–fast) framed by a reflective introduction and epilogue. However, these formal divisions exist within a single, unbroken arc. Such an overall symmetrical shape places the slow Arioso (itself divided into three subsections) at the midpoint, sandwiched between the two Allegro movements. The dramaturgy of the piece centres on a twofold search. First there is the ongoing pursuit to ‘recapture’ the simple melodic material stated by the solo violin – accompanied by the harp’s bass register – during the opening bars. Whilst aspects of this melody are invoked frequently throughout (especially in the violin cadenza which closes the Arioso movement), it is only with the final and most important climax of the work that the melody appears again in its complete form, now accompanied by violent, orchestral stabs. The second search is for a tonal resting place, the arrival of which is delayed until the close of the epilogue. The original version of the Violin Concerto, commissioned by the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, was premiered in Amsterdam in February 2012 with Gordan Nikolic as soloist. The present, revised version was created for Barnabás Kelemen and the Hallé. The piece is dedicated, with admiration, to my friend Oliver Knussen. (Ryan Wigglesworth)