Who Are These Children? 布瑞頓

這首 20 分鐘的男高音與鋼琴組曲創作於 1969 年，收錄了蘇格蘭詩人威廉-蘇塔（William Soutar，1898-1943 年）的多首歌詞、韻文和謎語。這首組曲將悅耳動聽的蘇格蘭短詩與嚴肅悲憤的英國詩歌交織在一起，將戰火紛飛的外部世界的恐怖與天真無邪的年輕人的世界形成鮮明對比。布裡頓出色地捕捉到了蘇格蘭語的聲調，他還善於在鋼琴聲部中加入相應的鼻音，經常讓人聯想到風笛或手搖風琴"

作曲家: Britten, Benjamin
樂器: High Voice, Piano
出版社: Faber Music
曲目: A Laddie's Sang (Britten/Soutar); Bed-Time (Britten/Soutar); Black Day (Britten/Soutar); Dawtie's Devotion (Britten/Soutar); Nightmare (Britten/Soutar); A Riddle (The Child You Were) (Britten/Soutar); A Riddle (The Earth) (Britten/Soutar); Slaughter (Britten/Soutar); Supper (Britten/Soutar); The Auld Aik (Britten/Soutar); The Children (Britten/Soutar); The Gully (Britten/Soutar); The Larky Lad (Britten/Soutar); Tradition (Britten/Soutar); Who Are These Children (Britten/Soutar)
原文簡介:
Composed in 1969, this 20-minute song cycle for tenor and piano sets several lyrics, rhymes and riddles by the Scottish poet William Soutar (1898–1943). The cycle interweaves the delightful short poems in Scots with the more serious and anguished English poems, contrasting the horrors of the warring outside world with the innocent, unselfconscious world of the young. The vocal inflection of Scots is brilliantly captured, and Britten is also adept at imparting a correspondingly nasal wheeze to the piano part, with its frequent suggestion of bagpipe or hurdy-gurdy.