True Self 鋼琴三重奏

傑瑞米-阿登的《真我》是一首單旋律作品，分為三個樂章。標題的靈感來自不同的來源：佛陀宣稱'真我'是與純潔、永恆和幸福並列的四種高貴品質之一；刻在阿波羅神廟門上的德爾斐格言'認識你自己'，被蘇格拉底的弟子柏拉圖放入蘇格拉底的口中；以及歐洲啟蒙運動時期的理性主義哲學家，他們確立了個人擁有內在真理的觀念。該主題及其變體貫穿始終--就像同一個演員，只是穿著不同的服裝、燈光和佈景。第一樂章是一首俏皮、夢幻般的歌曲；第二樂章是一曲節奏歡快的探戈；第三樂章是一個火熱的熔爐，最終以熔化結束。每個樂章都比前一個樂章更長，從而強化了整部作品的情感效果。

作曲家: Arden Jeremy
樂器: piano trio
出版社: Edition HH Limited
原文簡介:
Jeremy Arden’s True Self is a monothematic composition in three movements. The title was inspired by various sources: the words of the Buddha, who proclaimed ‘true self’ as one of the four noble qualities along with purity, eternity and happiness; the Delphic Maxim ‘know thyself’, inscribed above the door to the temple of Apollo and put into the mouth of Socrates by his disciple Plato; and the rationalist philosophers of the European Enlightenment who established the idea of the individual possessing an interior truth. The theme and its variants are continuously explored throughout — the same actor, as it were, but in different costumes, lighting and sets. The first movement is a playful, dreamlike song; the second, a tango in an offbeat groove; the third, a fiery furnace leading to a molten ending. Each movement is longer than the previous one, so intensifying the emotional effect over the work as a whole.