Sudden Time

像在一个没有时间的世界里突然出现的时间"--这是华莱士-史蒂文斯（Wallace Stevens）在《武术快板》（Martial Cadenza）中的诗句，也是乔治-本杰明（George Benjamin）为其 15 分钟管弦乐巡演《突然出现的时间》所取的标题。这首乐曲在作曲家的作品中占有举足轻重的地位，它充满了生动的独创性，从乐曲结尾处高亢的中提琴独奏，到由四支中音长笛和两支高音直笛组成的独特而诱人的段落，都让人想起本雅明的《安塔拉》中令人回味无穷的声音世界。该作品的结构完全以线性方式构思，听觉上的和谐是在各独立乐段的融合中产生的，这些乐段偶尔会在脉动时间的清晰瞬间凝聚在一起"

作曲家: Benjamin, George
乐器: Orchestra
出版社: Faber Music
原文简介:
‘It was like sudden time in a world without time’ – the lines from ‘Martial Cadenza’ by Wallace Stevens which gave George Benjamin his title for his 15-minute orchestral tour de force Sudden Time. Pivotal in the composer’s output, it’s a score filled with vivid originality, from the extraordinarily high viola solo which closes the piece to an individual and alluring passage four a group of four alto flutes and two garklein (sopranissimo) recorders which recalls the evocative sound world of Benjamin’s Antara. The work’s texture is conceived entirely in linear terms, the audible harmony being created in the fusion of the separate strands which occasionally coalesce in lucid moments of pulsed time. ‘… marvellous morphing dreamscape…’ The Times (Geoff Brown), 9 June 2003 '. . .perhaps the most impressive, motivated handling of orchestral forces in an output which has always demonstrated an extraordinary control of large forms. And the most telling of its time-tricks is that it compacts such a fecundity of ideas into a duration that, you are astonished to discover, barely exceeds 15 minutes. It feels twice as long; and I don't say that as criticism. Merely, as a tribute to the substance, depth and technical accomplishment of an outstanding score.' The Independent on Sunday (Michael White), 25 July 1993