Duet 二重奏

乔治-本雅明（George Benjamin）为 2008 年卢塞恩音乐节创作的钢琴与管弦乐队二重奏虽然只有短短 12 分钟，但其表现力和情感效果却达到了极致。在这首作品中，本雅明成功地跨越了独奏者与乐队之间的鸿沟，找到了两者之间的契合点，特别是将钢琴划分为几个不同的音域，与乐队中的音色对应。与此同时，钢琴在管弦乐中仍然是一个陌生的形象，它经常在乐器的纹理中独立前行，而管弦乐似乎有意忽略了它的存在。管弦乐队的编制有所缩减，尤其是没有了小提琴。钢琴的近亲--调谐打击乐，尤其是竖琴，在一定程度上得到了突出。这首二重奏以钦佩和感激之情献给皮埃尔-洛朗-埃玛尔，他是本杰明在巴黎学习初期就结识的朋友

作曲家: Benjamin, George
乐器: Piano, Orchestra
出版社: Faber Music
原文简介:
Commissioned by Roche for the 2008 Lucerne Festival, George Benjamin’s Duet for piano and orchestra plays for just 12 minutes, but its expressive and emotional effects are on the largest scale. In the piece Benjamin succeeds in crossing the divide between the soloist and the orchestra by finding compatible areas between them, specifically by dividing the piano into a few distinct registers with timbral equivalents in the orchestra. At the same time the piano remains an alien figure in the orchestral landscape and often treads an independent path through instrumental textures that can seem intentionally oblivious of it. The orchestra employed is somewhat reduced, above all by the absence of violins. A certain prominence is given to the piano's nearest relatives in tuned percussion and, especially, the harp. This Duet is dedicated with admiration and gratitude to Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Benjamin’s friend since the earliest days of his studies in Paris. ‘Benjamin’s Duet sounds like no other piece he has ever written – and no other piano concerto in the repertoire. Its premiere revealed music of startling concentration… Most strikingly of all, in the centre of the work, Benjamin writes music of stark intensity, distilled to its essentials: individual notes and chords in the piano part and ghostly flickers of string writing, with staccato tremors in the cellos and harmonics in the violas. There was a physical sense of the music being wrenched into another dimension.’ The Guardian (Tom Service), 2 September 2008