4 Piano Pieces 伯惠斯特 钢琴小品 钢琴独奏 博浩版

这四首小品表面上看似简单，却能让人窥见伯特威斯特尔大型作品的技术理念。旋律的旋律》是 2000 年布列兹 75 岁生日时献给他的作品，并在当天首演。同年创作的《贝蒂-弗里曼：她的探戈》是送给他的美国朋友和支持者贝蒂-弗里曼的 80 岁生日礼物。根据她名字的节奏，作曲家提出了一个持续的四音符想法，作曲家承认这可能更像是一首哈瓦那舞曲--纱布后面的探戈。同样，《萨拉班德》（Saraband： 同样，《萨拉班德：国王的告别》扭曲了标题中暗示的舞蹈，从未完全重复第一小节的节奏。这首曲子写于 2001 年，是为了让罗伯特-基利（Robert Keeley）在伯特威斯特尔于 1994 年起担任亨利-珀塞尔作曲教授的伦敦国王学院的告别音乐会上演奏。他曾将其称为 "青春期的旋律"，但其调式特征和忧郁的情绪已显示出他日后音乐的鲜明特征"

作曲家: Birtwistle, Sir Harrison
乐器: piano
出版社: Boosey & Hawkes

曲目:
Ostinato with Melody - Betty Freeman: Her Tango - Saraband: The King’s Farewell - Oockooing Bird

原文简介:
These four short pieces, though simple on the surface, all give glimpses in miniature of the technical ideas which characterise Birtwistle’s larger works. Ostinato with Melody, dedicated to Boulez on his 75th birthday in 2000 and first performed on that very day, superimposes a cantabile melody over the characteristic device of a constantly-changing ostinato. Written in the same year, Betty Freeman: Her Tango was an 80th birthday present for his American friend and supporter, Betty Freeman, a patron to an astonishing variety of composers. From the rhythm of her name an insistent four-note idea evolved, which the composer acknowledges is perhaps more of a habanera – a tango behind gauze. Similarly, Saraband: The King’s Farewell distorts the dance implied in its title, never exactly repeating the rhythm of its first bar. It was written in 2001 for Robert Keeley to play at Birtwistle’s farewell concert at King’s College, London, where he had been Henry Purcell Professor of Composition since 1994.Written in his mid-teens, Oockooing Bird is Birtwistle’s earliest extant composition. He has referred to it as “an adolescent melody” but its modal character and melancholic mood already point to distinctive traits in his later music.