Shadowlines

2001年，乔治-本杰明为皮埃尔-洛朗-埃玛尔（Pierre-Laurent Aimard）创作了《影子》（Shadowlines），这是乔治-本杰明近二十年来的首部钢琴作品。作品中的六个乐章（均以不同的方式演绎）时而轻柔，时而爆发，时而亲密无间，时而浑然一体，构成了一个长达 15 分钟的连续结构，极富戏剧性。本雅明的创作过程往往是隐秘的，超越了标准的转调和转位技巧；从 "弹性 "卡农（线条根据不同的速度扩张、收缩或融合），到本雅明自己发明的程序，旋律线条和和弦通过一个简单的音程间代码，然后出现完全不同的效果。一个苦涩的八度和弦序列变成了一个类似蓝调的七度主和弦序列，而一个激烈、铿锵有力的二声部复调则变成了温和的五声部吆喝"

作曲家: Benjamin, George
乐器: Piano
出版社: Faber Music
原文简介:
Composed in 2001 for Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Shadowlines was George Benjamin’s first piano work in almost two decades. By turns gentle and explosive, intimate and monolithic, its six movements (all canons in different ways) form a continuous 15-minute structure of great drama. More often than not, Benjamin’s processes are hidden, and go beyond standard techniques of transposition and inversion; from ‘elastic’ canons, where lines expand, contract or fuse according to variable speeds, to a procedure of Benjamin’s own invention where melodic lines and chords pass through a simple intervallic code and emerge totally transformed. A bitter sequence of octatonic chords becomes a blues-like sequence of dominant 7ths, whilst a fierce, plangently chromatic two-part polyphony is transfigured into mild, pentatonic yodelling. ‘… the first major piano work of the 21st century… Technical rigour and ingenuity lie behind everything, as they do in Bach; but as in Bach, they disappear in the expression of feeling – the impression of the piece is of free fantasy.’ The Boston Globe (Richard Dyer), 22 July 2003