The Origin of the Harp 艾得斯 竖琴

托马斯-阿德斯的《竖琴的起源》温柔、细腻、精致而浪漫，其灵感来自丹尼尔-麦克利斯的一幅画作，主题是凯尔特传说中的一个水仙女，她爱上了一个凡人，并无望地挣扎着离开自己的世界，到陆地上与他团聚。众神怜悯她的失败，出手将她变成了一把竖琴，将她的哭泣化作琴弦上轻柔的风声。这幅画表现的是她蜕变前的瞬间，她的头发被她的身体、岩石和手臂组成的三角形框住。在这首曲子中，竖琴本身并没有出现，而是在第四段也是最后一段的开头，在神的干预下出现的。 这首为单簧管、中提琴、大提琴三重奏和打击乐而作的短短九分钟音调诗，1994 年由哈雷管弦乐团首次演奏

作曲家: Adès, Thomas
乐器: Chamber Ensemble
出版社: Faber Music
原文简介:
Gentle, subtle, refined and romantic, Thomas Adès’s The Origin of the Harp takes its inspiration from a painting by Daniel Maclise whose subject is the Celtic Legend of a water nymph who falls for a mortal and struggles hopelessly to leave her element and join him on land. The Gods, taking pity on her failure, intervene and turn her into a harp, transforming her weeping into a gentle music of wind through strings. The painting shows her in the moment preceding the metamorphosis, the strands of her hair framed by a triangle of her body, a rock and her arm. In this piece, too, the harp itself is not featured but suggested, at the start of the fourth and final section, after a flash of divine intervention. A brief nine-minute tone poem for trios of clarinets, violas and cellos, and percussion, this work was first performed by the Hallé Orchestra in 1994.