Datura op. 57 叶小纲 钢琴四重奏 朔特版

曼陀罗》由 Accessible Contemporary Music 委托创作，创作方式独特。我在 2006 年夏天分期创作了这首曲子，并通过电子邮件发送给塞斯-布斯特德，后者将其转发给了乐团。通过这种独特的工作方式，我可以在每段作品之间有时间思考下一步的创作，并从演奏者那里获得对音乐的回馈。对于作曲家来说，这是一种非常新颖和与众不同的工作方式。通常，我都是独自创作，然后交给表演者，但分期创作可以让表演者和作曲家之间有更多的交流，也可以让观众听到作品的创作过程。曼陀罗》是作曲家创作的另一系列关于亚洲植物和花卉的作品。曼陀罗是中国南方一种非常常见的室内植物，非常美丽，但也可用作致幻剂，通常会产生令人不快的结果。在这首作品中，作曲家通过交替使用宁静和强烈的音乐段落，将曼陀罗花的另一种美与它所能产生的强烈内心感受并置。(叶小钢）

作曲家: Ye Xiaogang
乐器: flute, violin, cello and piano
出版社: Schott Music
原文简介:
"Datura was commissioned by Accessible Contemporary Music and was written in a unique way. I composed the piece in installments over the summer of 2006 and emailed them to Seth Boustead who forwarded them on to the ensemble. In this unique way of working I was able to have time between each installment to think about what would come next and to get feedback from the performers about the music. This is a very new and different way for a composer to work. Usually I write the piece in solitude and then hand it to the performers but writing in installments allows more communications between the performers and the composer and allows the audience to hear the piece as its created. Datura is another series of pieces composer written about Asian plants and flowers. Datura is a very common houseplant in south China and very beautiful but it can also be used as a hallucinogen, usually with unpleasant results. In this piece the composer juxtaposed the other beauty of the plant with the intense inner would it can create by using alternately tranquil and intense musical passages." (Xiaogang Ye)