Who Are These Children? 布瑞顿

这首 20 分钟的男高音与钢琴组曲创作于 1969 年，收录了苏格兰诗人威廉-苏塔（William Soutar，1898-1943 年）的多首歌词、韵文和谜语。这首组曲将悦耳动听的苏格兰短诗与严肃悲愤的英国诗歌交织在一起，将战火纷飞的外部世界的恐怖与天真无邪的年轻人的世界形成鲜明对比。布里顿出色地捕捉到了苏格兰语的声调，他还善于在钢琴声部中加入相应的鼻音，经常让人联想到风笛或手摇风琴"

作曲家: Britten, Benjamin
乐器: High Voice, Piano
出版社: Faber Music
曲目: A Laddie's Sang (Britten/Soutar); Bed-Time (Britten/Soutar); Black Day (Britten/Soutar); Dawtie's Devotion (Britten/Soutar); Nightmare (Britten/Soutar); A Riddle (The Child You Were) (Britten/Soutar); A Riddle (The Earth) (Britten/Soutar); Slaughter (Britten/Soutar); Supper (Britten/Soutar); The Auld Aik (Britten/Soutar); The Children (Britten/Soutar); The Gully (Britten/Soutar); The Larky Lad (Britten/Soutar); Tradition (Britten/Soutar); Who Are These Children (Britten/Soutar)
原文简介:
Composed in 1969, this 20-minute song cycle for tenor and piano sets several lyrics, rhymes and riddles by the Scottish poet William Soutar (1898–1943). The cycle interweaves the delightful short poems in Scots with the more serious and anguished English poems, contrasting the horrors of the warring outside world with the innocent, unselfconscious world of the young. The vocal inflection of Scots is brilliantly captured, and Britten is also adept at imparting a correspondingly nasal wheeze to the piano part, with its frequent suggestion of bagpipe or hurdy-gurdy.