Symphony No. 2 麥克米倫．詹姆士 交響曲 總譜 博浩版

這部為室內管弦樂隊譜寫的作品創作於 1999 年，以麥克米倫 1985 年創作的較短的鋼琴奏鳴曲為基礎。該作品創作于艾爾郡的一個嚴冬：作曲家回憶起荒蕪的樹木和堅硬冰凍的地面，除了鵝卵石發出的刺耳空洞的啼叫聲外，四周空曠寂靜。在這三個樂章中，音樂傳達出一種哀傷、絕望和荒涼的情緒。在《第二交響曲》中，原作被 "打開"，以新的形式擴展，有時是根據色彩的潛力，有時是根據戲劇性甚至是原本未曾見過的潛力。第一樂章很短，是更長的第二樂章的預備樂章。第三樂章是一個簡短的後奏曲，幾乎是對已聽過的內容的一個餘音，其間在引用瓦格納的《特裡斯坦與伊索爾德》中的一些片段時，陳述了對前幾個樂章的一些主要回憶"

作曲家: MacMillan, James
樂器: chamber orchestra
出版社: Boosey & Hawkes

曲目:
Composer's note - Anmerkung des Komponisten - Note du compositeur - Instrumentation - Symphony No. 2

原文簡介:
Scored for chamber orchestra and dating from 1999, this work is built on MacMillan’s shorter Piano Sonata of 1985. That work was composed during a bitter Ayrshire winter: the composer recalls the barren trees and hard frozen ground of a landscape that was empty and silent but for the harsh, hollow cry from the rookeries. Throughout the three movements the music conveys a mood of elegy, despair and desolation. In Symphony no 2 the original has been ‘opened up’ to new forms of expansion, sometimes according to colouristic potential, at other times to dramatic or even originally unseen potential. The first movement is short and preparatory to the more extended second movement. The third movement is a brief postlude, almost an afterthought to what has been heard, during which some of the principal memories of the earlier movements are stated over some quotations from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde.