Children's Crusade 布瑞顿

儿童十字军》是本杰明-布里顿为儿童声乐、双钢琴、电子管风琴和打击乐创作的贝托尔德-布莱希特作品，是他最朴素、最令人不安的作品之一。这首 19 分钟的作品以民谣的形式讲述了一群孩子试图逃离二战时期波兰的 "黑夜荒野"，寻找和平，但最终在雪地中迷失方向的故事。

作曲家: Britten, Benjamin
乐器: Upper Voices
出版社: Faber Music
原文简介:
Children’s Crusade, a setting of Bertold Brecht for children’s voices, two pianos, electric organ, and percussion, is one of Benjamin Britten’s most austere and unsettling pieces. The 19-minute work takes the form of a ballad telling the story of a group of children trying to flee the ‘wilderness of night’ that was World War II Poland, searching for peace but ultimately becoming lost without trace in the snow. Composed for the 50th anniversary of the Save the Children Fund, Children’s Crusade was completed in January 1969, immediately before two other works preoccupied with war: Who are these Children? and Owen Wingrave. Britten himself referred to this hard-hitting work as a ‘very grisly piece’, and its icy, claustrophobic and violent music offers almost no hope. Originally in English, it also exists in a German translation by Hans Keller.