Two Nocturnes op. 307 for piano quartet 馬克斯威爾˙戴維斯 鋼琴四重奏 夜曲鋼琴四重奏 朔特版

2010 年是蕭邦年，我在通讀和聆聽了蕭邦的大部分作品後，將這對夜曲作為一個小小的紀念。我以前從未在這種麻醉狀態下創作過--音樂的維度被極大地誇張了，每個音程和每個樂句都被拉得不成比例，整整幾分鐘充滿了整個時空。鋼琴四重奏的配器受到室內樂版協奏曲的新古典主義風格的影響，和聲語言則是蕭邦對 J.S. 巴赫的個性化思考的結果

作曲家: Maxwell Davies Sir Peter
樂器: piano, violin, viola and cello
出版社: Schott Music Ltd., London
原文簡介:
The two nocturnes were composed immediately after major surgery, against a deadline, and, despite the music sounding unlike anything I have written before, I decided to keep them exactly as they turned out.2010 is a Chopin year, and I made this pair of nocturnes into a little tribute, after playing through and listening to most of his output. Never before had I composed under these drugged conditions – the musical dimensions were enormously exaggerated, with each interval and each phrase being elongated out of all proportion, and the whole few minutes filling the whole of time and space.The orchestration, for piano quartet, was influenced by the very neo-classical feel of the chamber version of the concertos, and the harmonic language very much the result of pondering Chopin’s very individual take on J.S Bach.They are dedicated to James MacMillan and Amelia Freedman respectively.Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (2010)