The Tree of Man

卡爾-威恩為女高音和絃樂創作的世俗大合唱《人類之樹》抒情、直接，展現了對聲樂寫作的精湛理解，是獻給觀眾和音樂家的禮物。這部 11 分鐘的作品創作於 2012 年，是為澳大利亞室內樂團和女高音歌唱家達尼埃萊-德-尼耶創作的，改編自諾貝爾文學獎得主派翠克-懷特的同名小說中的一段話

作曲家: Vine, Carl
樂器: Voice, Piano
出版社: Faber Music
原文簡介:
Lyrical, direct and exhibiting a masterful understanding of vocal writing, Carl Vine’s secular cantata for soprano and strings, The Tree of Man, is a gift to audience and musicians alike. The 11-minute work, written in 2012 for the Australian Chamber Orchestra and soprano Daniele de Niese, is based on a passage from a novel of the same name by the Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick White. Vine knew White personally (having written music for several of his stage plays in the 1980s) and his setting perfectly complements the simplicity and sincerity of the prose. The music moves in an arc from its quietly insistent beginnings and rhapsodic central section to a haunting conclusion, where the brooding opening returns before evaporating into the air...