Adam’s Lament 佩爾特．阿爾沃 輓歌 總譜 環球版

阿爾沃-派特多年來一直對阿托斯的聖西羅安（1866-1938 年）的生平和作品著迷。早在 1991 年，西洛安的著作就啟發了派特為絃樂隊創作的《西洛安之歌》，"我的靈魂嚮往主......"。派特的新作《亞當的哀歌》再次以西魯安的文字為基礎，其中這位修道士哀歎亞當失去天堂的痛苦。西洛安的素描和文字極富詩意，是俄羅斯詩歌中最重要的作品之一。用俄語演唱的文本的內容和結構決定了音樂的走向，甚至是最微小的細節。標點符號、音節數量和詞的輕重緩急在創作中都起著決定性的作用。

作曲家: Paert, Arvo
樂器: for mixed choir (SATB) and string orchestra
出版社: Universal Edition
原文簡介:

Arvo Pärt has been fascinated by the life and work of St Silouan of Athos (1866-1938) for many years. As early as 1991, the writings of Silouan inspired Pärt to his composition Silouan's Song, 'My soul yearns after the Lord ...' for string orchestra. Pärt's new work Adam's Lament is once again based on a text by Silouan, in which the monk laments Adam's pain over the loss of paradise. Silouan's sketches and writings are of great poetic power, and represent some of the most significant works in Russian poetry. The content and structure of the texts, which are sung in Russian, dictate the course of the music down to the smallest detail. Punctuation, syllable counts and word emphases all play decisive roles in the composition.

For me, the name Adam is a collective term not merely for the whole of humanity, but for each individual, regardless of time, era, social class or religious affiliation. And this collective Adam has suffered and lamented on this earth for millennia. Our ancestor Adam foresaw the human tragedy that was to come and experienced it as his own guilty responsibility, the result of his sinful act. He suffered all the cataclysms of humanity into the depths of desperation, inconsolable in his agony. Arvo Pärt

To mark Arvo Pärt's Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Istanbul Music Festival, a new work was premiered at a concert featuring highlights from the composer's career: Adam's Lament for choir and orchestra. The piece was co-commissioned by the European Capitals of Culture for 2010 and 2011, Istanbul and Tallin respectively.