Ophelia's Last Dance 舞曲

奧菲莉婭的最後之舞》（《奧菲莉婭之舞》，第 2 冊）基於 1974 年初的一段旋律，這段旋律曾是奧利弗-克努森《第三交響曲》（1973-79 年）的幾個構思之一，但最終被排除在外。其中一些後來演變成了合奏曲《奧菲利亞之舞》第一卷（1975 年），但這首曲子多年來仍時常困擾著他。妻子蘇-克努森（Sue Knussen）去世後，這首曲子讓作曲家想起了一段幸福的時光，最終，在 2004 年保羅-克羅斯利的 60 歲生日獨奏音樂會上，他決定給這首曲子一個小小的框架，讓它與腦海中的聽眾以外的聽眾分享。這首 10 分鐘的作品創作於 2009/10 年。其他一些'無家可歸'的舞蹈片段，更多的是通過個人經歷和情緒而非任何更具體的東西聯繫在一起，並通過各種不同的手法，在原始旋律的迴旋曲式反復出現之間進行轉換，從而將它們結合在一起"

作曲家: Knussen, Oliver
樂器: Piano
出版社: Faber Music
原文簡介:
Ophelia’s Last Dance (Ophelia Dances, Book 2) is based on a melody dating from early in 1974, which was among several ideas intended for - but ultimately excluded from – Oliver Knussen’s Third Symphony (1973-79). Some of these evolved into the ensemble piece Ophelia Dances, Book 1 (1975), but this one, which nonetheless continued to haunt him from time to time over the years. After the death of his wife, Sue Knussen, it reminded the composer of a happier time and eventually, on the occasion of Paul Crossley’s 60th birthday recital in 2004, he decided to give it a tiny frame of its own so it could be shared with listeners other than the one in his head. The present 10-minute work - written in 2009/10 - is the result. A number of other ‘homeless’ dance-fragments, related more by personal history and mood than by anything more concrete, are bound together by means of variously wrought transitions to and from rondo-like recurrences of the original melody. ‘Superb... In it, darkness, dissonance and freezing high notes creep into the childlike idyll of the opening. The effect is one of austere sophistication.’ The New York Times (Zachary Woolfe), 23 April 2012 ‘A gorgeous, nostalgia-drenched, Scriabin-like waltz.’ The Guardian (Andrew Clements), 28 May 2012