Dream of the Song

《歌之梦》是乔治-本雅明继开创性的歌剧《写在皮肤上》之后的首部作品，于2015年由反男高音贝琼-梅塔、荷兰室内合唱团和作曲家指挥的皇家音乐厅管弦乐团首演，是一部为反男高音、女声和管弦乐团创作的20分钟的迷人作品。这部作品采用了精简的管弦乐队（两支双簧管、四支圆号、两名打击乐手、两把竖琴和弦乐），将三位在格拉纳达度过成长岁月的重要诗人的诗句编排在一起；这三位诗人分别是 11 世纪中叶的两位希伯来诗人塞缪尔-哈纳基德（Samuel HaNagid）和所罗门-伊本-加比罗尔（Solomon Ibn Gabirol）（由彼得-科尔（Peter Cole）的英文版反男高音独唱），以及加布里埃尔-加西亚-洛尔卡（Gabriel Garcia Lorca）（由女声合唱团用西班牙语原版演唱）。这对灵感迸发的文本组合创造了丰富、忧郁和奇特的诗意，在最后乐章中表现得淋漓尽致，独唱和合唱的迭加，提供了两个同时出现的黎明景象，构思相隔千年"

作曲家: Benjamin, George
乐器: Female Voices, Chamber Orchestra, Countertenor Voice
出版社: Faber Music
原文简介:
A beguiling 20-minute work for countertenor, women’s voices and orchestra, Dream of the Song, George Benjamin’s first work since his ground-breaking opera Written on Skin, was premiered in 2015 by the countertenor Bejun Mehta, the Netherlands Chamber Choir and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by the composer. Employing a reduced orchestra (two oboes, four horns, two percussionists and two harps and strings), the work sets verse by three major poets who spent formative years in Granada; two Hebrew poets of mid-11th century, Samuel HaNagid and Solomon Ibn Gabirol (sung by solo countertenor in English versions by Peter Cole), and Gabriel Garcia Lorca (sung by the female chorus in the original Spanish). This inspired pairing of texts creates a rich, melancholy and strange poetic conjunction, expressed most beautifully in the final movement which, overlaying soloist and choir, offers two simultaneous visions of dawn, conceived a millennium apart. ‘Perfectly structured music of great beauty, fleet-footed and profound, varied and thoughtful… Benjamin possesses a passionate, almost fanatical, gift for tone colour…’ NRC Handelsblad (Joe Stack), 28 September 2015