Symphony No.3: 'Silence' 麥克米倫．詹姆士 交響曲 總譜 博浩版

這部作品的靈感來自日本偉大作家遠藤周作（1923-96 年）的小說《沉默》。他在書中提出了深刻的哲學問題，並與 2000 年前最痛苦的問題之一 "我的上帝，我的上帝，你為什麼拋棄了我？"產生了共鳴。遠藤的 "沉默 "是上帝面對人類無情本性所產生的可怕事件時的沉默：酷刑、種族滅絕、大屠殺。不過，對遠藤來說，這種沉默不是不存在，而是存在。作曲家沉默的空虛和孤獨蘊含著可能性和力量。在這首單樂章交響曲中，音樂與靜默之間的聯繫是顯而易見的；作品在靜默中開始，高潮是一個延長的費爾馬塔。最後是一小節的沉默--這是整部作品的構思和隱喻點"

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

曲目:
Composer's note - Anmerkung des Komponisten - Note du compositeur - Instrumentation - Symphony No. 3: 'Silence'

原文簡介:
The inspiration for this work came from the novel Silence by the great Japanese writer, Shusaku Endo (1923–96). His book asks profound philosophical questions and resonates with one of the most anguished questions asked 2,000 years ago, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?” Endo’s ‘silence’ is the silence of God in the face of terrible events springing from the merciless nature of man: torture, genocide, holocaust. For Endo, though, this silence is not absence but presence, a notion that has many musical analogies. The emptiness and solitude of a composer’s silence is nevertheless pregnant with the promise of possibility and potency. The connections between music and silence are made palpable in this single-movement symphony; the work begins in silence and the climax is a prolonged fermata. The final event is a bar of silence – the conception and metaphorical point of the entire work.