Ophelia's Last Dance 舞曲

奥菲莉娅的最后之舞》（《奥菲莉娅之舞》，第 2 册）基于 1974 年初的一段旋律，这段旋律曾是奥利弗-克努森《第三交响曲》（1973-79 年）的几个构思之一，但最终被排除在外。其中一些后来演变成了合奏曲《奥菲利亚之舞》第一卷（1975 年），但这首曲子多年来仍时常困扰着他。妻子苏-克努森（Sue Knussen）去世后，这首曲子让作曲家想起了一段幸福的时光，最终，在 2004 年保罗-克罗斯利的 60 岁生日独奏音乐会上，他决定给这首曲子一个小小的框架，让它与脑海中的听众以外的听众分享。这首 10 分钟的作品创作于 2009/10 年。其他一些'无家可归'的舞蹈片段，更多的是通过个人经历和情绪而非任何更具体的东西联系在一起，并通过各种不同的手法，在原始旋律的回旋曲式反复出现之间进行转换，从而将它们结合在一起"

作曲家: Knussen, Oliver
乐器: Piano
出版社: Faber Music
原文简介:
Ophelia’s Last Dance (Ophelia Dances, Book 2) is based on a melody dating from early in 1974, which was among several ideas intended for - but ultimately excluded from – Oliver Knussen’s Third Symphony (1973-79). Some of these evolved into the ensemble piece Ophelia Dances, Book 1 (1975), but this one, which nonetheless continued to haunt him from time to time over the years. After the death of his wife, Sue Knussen, it reminded the composer of a happier time and eventually, on the occasion of Paul Crossley’s 60th birthday recital in 2004, he decided to give it a tiny frame of its own so it could be shared with listeners other than the one in his head. The present 10-minute work - written in 2009/10 - is the result. A number of other ‘homeless’ dance-fragments, related more by personal history and mood than by anything more concrete, are bound together by means of variously wrought transitions to and from rondo-like recurrences of the original melody. ‘Superb... In it, darkness, dissonance and freezing high notes creep into the childlike idyll of the opening. The effect is one of austere sophistication.’ The New York Times (Zachary Woolfe), 23 April 2012 ‘A gorgeous, nostalgia-drenched, Scriabin-like waltz.’ The Guardian (Andrew Clements), 28 May 2012