Variations 咏唱调

奥利弗-克努森的钢琴变奏曲创作于 1989 年，由彼得-瑟金首演。这部作品虽然简洁明了--十二首变奏曲总共演奏了六分多钟--但作曲家在非常有限的原始素材（主题本身就是前六个音符的变奏）中融入了一些对比强烈的纹理和表现手法，并采用了三段式的戏剧设计：最初的五组性格变奏曲、包含四首变奏曲的中央过门，以及作为全曲尾声的最后一组三首更类似于练习曲的变奏曲"

作曲家: Knussen, Oliver
乐器: Piano
出版社: Faber Music
原文简介:
Oliver Knussen’s Variations for piano were composed in 1989 and premiered by Peter Serkin. Although they are concise – the twelve variations play for a little more than six minutes in all – the composer integrates some highly contrasted textural and expressive approaches to a very limited amount of raw material (the theme is itself variations on its first six notes) within a three-part dramatic design: an initial group of five character-variations, a central passacaglia enclosing four more variations, and a final set of three, more etude-like variations functioning as coda to the whole. ‘A chiming, clangorous exercise in compression, without a wasted note.’ Newsday (Tim Page), 13 November 1989 ‘Among the densest six minutes of music ever written, as massive textures collapse into delicate gestures and tiny phrases transform into huge outbursts. Knussen’s models while composing the piece were sets of variations by Webern, Stravinsky and Copland. His own set belings in the same company.’ The Guardian (Tom Service), 4 November 2002