Brahms 艾得斯

托马斯-阿代斯（Thomas Adès）为男中音和管弦乐队创作的《勃拉姆斯》（2001 年）改编自阿尔弗雷德-布伦德尔（Alfred Brendel）的诗歌《勃拉姆斯二世》（Brahms II）。阿德斯将这首俏皮而严肃的作品形容为 "反怀旧 "之作，他试图将勃拉姆斯的旋律与和声技巧（如基于降三度的序列和密集的协奏曲式）发挥到 "合乎逻辑 "的极致。然而，这部作品的基调绝非狭隘的讽刺。相反，勃拉姆斯材料逻辑的局限性被运用得淋漓尽致。在揭示他所认为的勃拉姆斯音乐语言的'残缺'时，阿第斯本身就创造了一个引人入胜的戏剧缩影，既不失严肃，又意味深长

作曲家: Adès, Thomas
乐器: Baritone, Piano
出版社: Faber Music
原文简介:
Thomas Adès’s Brahms for baritone and orchestra (2001) is a setting of Alfred Brendel’s poem ‘Brahms II’ in which the malodorous ghost of Brahms stalks a house and plays the piano late at night. Adès described this playful, but serious, piece as an ‘anti-homage’ and in it he seeks to take Brahms’s melodic and harmonic tics – such as sequences based on descending thirds, and densely contrapuntal textures – to ‘logical’ extremes. The tone of the work is never narrowly sarcastic, however. Instead, the limitations of the logic of Brahms’ material are used to great expressive effect. In revealing what he sees as the ‘disability’ of Brahms’ musical language, Adès creates a compelling dramatic miniature in its own right, at once irreverent and profound.