Trio 钢琴三重奏 博浩版

作曲家注：我很早就为这首曲子确定了一个简单的标题：三重奏。它既反映了演奏者的人数，也反映了乐章的数量。乐章本身的名称可能会让人更好奇，而不是一看标题就知道，每个乐章都尽力独立存在，但在我看来，这些相对简短的陈述合在一起，构成了一个完整的音乐段落。这是一首应景之作，我很高兴能为此做出贡献：在波士顿伊莎贝拉-斯图尔特-加德纳博物馆的新音乐厅，克莱蒙特三重奏为我熟悉的老朋友和演奏家们举办了首场音乐会。我在互联网上搜索和研究，找到了建筑师伦佐-皮亚诺（Renzo Piano）的设计图，并在布鲁克林家中工作时通过照片观看了这座建筑的成长。我被音乐厅不同寻常的外形所吸引，它是一个垂直立方体，有四层包裹的阳台，几乎直接盘旋在方形舞台的上方。结果正如我想象的那样：在最终被命名为考德伍德音乐厅的地方，没有前后左右之分。只有上下。我将第二乐章作为向大厅致敬的隐喻：大部分乐章都是垂直的，这也是我的初衷。虽然我在作曲时关注的是技术问题，但当我听到这首乐曲时，我惊讶地发现我把我的工程技术，那些承重柱，隐藏在了我不经意间形成的表皮之后。作为听众，我才意识到《卡尔德伍德》中的音乐构成了《三重奏》的情感核心。弗洛里德跳房子》（Florid Hopscotch）是这首乐曲的开头，尽管是一个略显混乱或沮丧的开头：钢琴中跳跃的顿挫感与弦乐中流动的长音争夺着突出的位置。机器人的慢华尔兹》是一首相当直白的乐曲，根据人们对这种事物的看法，它可能是凄美的，也可能是恐怖和怪诞的。也许音乐在两者之间都找到了自己的方向，但在我写完最后一个音符后，这幅画面就像一道闪电击中了我。我不喜欢剧透，但我还是想透露一点：任何以电池为动力的物体，如果自作主张地尝试像跳舞这样迷人而无用的人类行为，都可能会得到我的同情，至少在电池耗尽之前是这样。- 肖恩-谢泼

作曲家: Shepherd Sean
乐器: piano trio
出版社: Boosey & Hawkes, New York
原文简介:
Composer’s note: "I decided on a simple enough title for this piece early on: Trio. It's meant to reflect both the number of players and the number of movements that make up the piece. The names of movements themselves might leave one more curious than a quick glance at the title might reveal, and each movement does its best to stand alone, but in my mind these relatively short statements, taken together, make a complete musical paragraph. It’s a piece for an occasion, and one for which I was very happy to contribute: the first concerts in a new concert hall in Boston at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, for the Claremont Trio, old friends and players I knew well. I scoured and researched on the internet, found the design plans of the architect, Renzo Piano, and watched the building grow in photos as I worked at home in Brooklyn. I was taken with the unusual shape of the hall, a vertical cube with four wrapping balcony levels hovering nearly directly over a square stage. The result, as I imagined: there is no front or back, left or right in what was eventually named Calderwood Hall. There is only up and down. I approached the second movement as a metaphor of homage to the hall: most of movement is vertical in nature, as was the intent. While I had focused on technical issues in composing the music, upon hearing it, I was surprised to find I’d hidden my engineering, those load-bearing columns, behind a skin that formed while I wasn’t looking. It was only as a listener that I realized the music in "Calderwood" formed the emotional core of Trio. Florid Hopscotch serves as the intrada, albeit a slightly confused or frustrated one: a leaping staccato gesture starting in the piano argues for prominence with long flowing lines in the strings. Slow waltz of the robots is a pretty blunt take on something that, depending one’s view of such things, might be anywhere from sadly beautiful to horrifying and grotesque. Perhaps the music finds its way toward a bit of both, but the image hit me like a flash after I’d written the last note. I don’t like spoilers, but I’m inclined give this away: any battery-powered objects that would take it upon themselves to attempt such a charmingly useless human act as dancing would likely get a sympathetic view from me, at least until those batteries run out." - Sean Shepherd -
难度: difficult