Datura op. 57 葉小綱 鋼琴四重奏 朔特版

曼陀羅》由 Accessible Contemporary Music 委託創作，創作方式獨特。我在 2006 年夏天分期創作了這首曲子，並通過電子郵件發送給塞斯-布斯特德，後者將其轉發給了樂團。通過這種獨特的工作方式，我可以在每段作品之間有時間思考下一步的創作，並從演奏者那裡獲得對音樂的回饋。對於作曲家來說，這是一種非常新穎和與眾不同的工作方式。通常，我都是獨自創作，然後交給表演者，但分期創作可以讓表演者和作曲家之間有更多的交流，也可以讓觀眾聽到作品的創作過程。曼陀羅》是作曲家創作的另一系列關於亞洲植物和花卉的作品。曼陀羅是中國南方一種非常常見的室內植物，非常美麗，但也可用作致幻劑，通常會產生令人不快的結果。在這首作品中，作曲家通過交替使用寧靜和強烈的音樂段落，將曼陀羅花的另一種美與它所能產生的強烈內心感受並置。(葉小鋼）

作曲家: Ye Xiaogang
樂器: flute, violin, cello and piano
出版社: Schott Music
原文簡介:
"Datura was commissioned by Accessible Contemporary Music and was written in a unique way. I composed the piece in installments over the summer of 2006 and emailed them to Seth Boustead who forwarded them on to the ensemble. In this unique way of working I was able to have time between each installment to think about what would come next and to get feedback from the performers about the music. This is a very new and different way for a composer to work. Usually I write the piece in solitude and then hand it to the performers but writing in installments allows more communications between the performers and the composer and allows the audience to hear the piece as its created. Datura is another series of pieces composer written about Asian plants and flowers. Datura is a very common houseplant in south China and very beautiful but it can also be used as a hallucinogen, usually with unpleasant results. In this piece the composer juxtaposed the other beauty of the plant with the intense inner would it can create by using alternately tranquil and intense musical passages." (Xiaogang Ye)