Deep Time 伯惠斯特 總譜 博浩版

2017年，在丹尼爾-巴倫博伊姆的指揮下，這部作品在柏林和倫敦進行了首演。這部長達23分鐘的樂譜是為了紀念彼得-麥斯威爾-大衛斯（Peter Maxwell Davies），由柏林國家管弦樂團（Berlin Staatskapelle）和英國廣播公司音樂舞會（BBC Proms）委託創作，在愛樂樂團（Philharmonie）和音樂廳（Konzerthaus）演出後，隨樂團和指揮前往皇家阿爾伯特音樂廳（Royal Albert Hall）。深邃的時間》從隱喻而非字面意義上與時間和地震主題產生共鳴，作曲家將其與永恆的地質變化概念和蘊藏在地球深處的巨大時間跨度相提並論。他在蘇格蘭拉塞島上居住時觀察到，地層物質被地震活動炸開，因此在當前時間點上可以看到年代大相徑庭的岩石，而拉塞島就坐落在地質斷層線上。新作品對時間的關注使其成為繼《時間的勝利》和《大地之舞》之後，伯特威斯特管弦樂三部曲中的第三部。英國《衛報》將這部作品描述為 "一部震撼人心的作品，有時美得令人窒息......伯特威斯特爾使用的管弦樂隊強調低音樂器--大號、低音和低音單簧管、低音管--的演奏，但音樂所描繪的景色卻多姿多彩。其中有斯特拉文斯基式的脈動重複、層層疊疊的木管顫音、布列茲式的打擊樂托卡塔以及由高音薩克斯領銜的長肢獨奏，它們漂浮在透明的弦樂網之上......這是伯特威斯特爾最傑出的管弦樂成就之一

作曲家: Birtwistle, Sir Harrison
樂器: orchestra
出版社: Boosey & Hawkes
原文簡介:
This work received its first performances under the baton of Daniel Barenboim in 2017 in Berlin and London. The 23-minute score, dedicated to the memory of Peter Maxwell Davies, was commissioned by the Berlin Staatskapelle and BBC Proms and, following performances at the Philharmonie and the Konzerthaus, travelled with orchestra and conductor to the Royal Albert Hall. Deep Time resonates with temporal and seismic themes in a metaphorical rather than a literal sense, the composer drawing parallels to the concept of perpetual geological change and the immense spans of deep time embedded in the earth. He refers to the idea of strata of material being blown apart by seismic activity so that rocks of vastly different ages can be viewed adjacent at the present point of time, as he observed when living on the Scottish island of Raasay which sits astride a geological fault line. The new work’s concern with time can see it placed as the third piece in a Birtwistle orchestral triptych following The Triumph of Time and Earth Dances. The Guardian describes the work as “an immensely powerful, sometimes breathtakingly beautiful work… Birtwistle may use an orchestra in which low-pitched instruments – tubas, bass and contrabass clarinets, contrabassoons – are emphasised, but the landscapes that the music traverses are wonderfully varied and coloured. There are pulsing Stravinskyan repetitions, cascades of chattering woodwind, Boulez-like toccatas of tuned percussion and long-limbed solos, led off of by soprano saxophone, which float over transparent webs of strings…one of Birtwistle’s finest orchestral achievements.