Songs of Darkness, Dreams of Light 彼得版

BBC 委托我为 2018 年 "舞会最后之夜 "创作这部作品时，我得到了一份相当详细的任务书。首先，这部作品应该由 BBC 歌手和 BBC 交响合唱团（与 BBC 交响乐团合作）共同完成，两个合唱团应该相互独立。其次，歌词应纪念第一次世界大战结束一百周年，但又乐观地展望未来。为了纪念这一百周年，我选择了一战诗人艾萨克-罗森伯格（Isaac Rosenberg）写于 1914 年的《在阴间》（In the Underworld）。这首诗原本是关于单相思的，但如果你不了解它的背景，就会觉得它是对未来四年的预言，让人感到留在家中的妇女无法理解她们的男人在战壕中面临的恐怖。BBC 歌手代表罗森伯格，他们的音乐基于一种优美的阿什肯纳兹犹太祈祷模式--也被称为 "乌克兰吉普赛 "模式。我在阅读卡里尔-纪伯伦（Kahlil Gibran）的《先知》（写于 1923 年）时，看到了这些诗句，它们似乎回答并缓解了罗森伯格诗中表达的恐惧。BBC 交响合唱团扮演纪伯伦的角色，用优美动听、旋律优美的马龙派叙利亚圣歌演唱，纪伯伦出生在黎巴嫩，信奉的就是马龙派叙利亚圣歌。后来，他对伊斯兰教，尤其是苏菲派产生了浓厚的兴趣；因此，整首乐曲采用了苏菲派 Zikr 的形式，打击乐中带有苏菲派的虔诚节奏，开始时安静而低沉，但慢慢变得高亢、快速和响亮。两个合唱团开始时是分开的，但后来合并成'对话'，有时会重迭，最后以积极的音符结束：罗森伯格的《光明与幸福的生物》在纪伯伦的《我们将在天空中建造一座高塔》之上

作曲家: Panufnik, Roxanna
乐器: Mixed Voices, Orchestra
出版社: Edition Peters
原文简介:
When the BBC commissioned this work for the Last Night of the Proms 2018, I was given quite a detailed brief. First, the work should be for the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Chorus (with the BBC Symphony Orchestra), and the two choirs should be quite independent of each other. Secondly, the words should acknowledge the centenary of the end of World War I, but look optimistically to the future. For the centenary I chose In the Underworld by World War I poet Isaac Rosenberg, written in 1914. Originally about unrequited love, it can read, if you do not know its context, as a prophetic look at the next four years, with the sense that the women left at home cannot begin to comprehend the horrors their men face in the trenches. The BBC Singers represent Rosenberg and their music is based on a beautiful Ashkenazi-Jewish prayer mode – also known as the ‘Ukrainian Gypsy’ mode. While I was reading The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (written in 1923), I came across these lines, which seem to answer and assuage the fears expressed in Rosenberg’s poem. The BBC Symphony Chorus take on the role of Gibran, singing in a beautiful, melismatic, Maronite Syriac chant, into which faith Gibran was born in Lebanon. Later in his life, he became very interested in Islam, particularly Sufism; therefore the whole piece is in the form of a Sufi Zikr, with Sufi devotional rhythms in the percussion, starting quiet and low, but slowly becoming higher, faster and louder. The two choirs start separately, but merge into a ‘conversation,’ sometimes overlapping, and ending on a positive note: Rosenberg’s Creature of light and happiness over Gibran’s We shall build a tower in the sky.