The Tree of Man

卡尔-维恩为女高音和弦乐创作的世俗大合唱《人类之树》抒情、直接，展现了对声乐写作的精湛理解，是献给观众和音乐家的礼物。这部 11 分钟的作品创作于 2012 年，是为澳大利亚室内乐团和女高音歌唱家达尼埃莱-德-尼耶创作的，改编自诺贝尔文学奖得主帕特里克-怀特的同名小说中的一段话

作曲家: Vine, Carl
乐器: Voice, Piano
出版社: Faber Music
原文简介:
Lyrical, direct and exhibiting a masterful understanding of vocal writing, Carl Vine’s secular cantata for soprano and strings, The Tree of Man, is a gift to audience and musicians alike. The 11-minute work, written in 2012 for the Australian Chamber Orchestra and soprano Daniele de Niese, is based on a passage from a novel of the same name by the Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick White. Vine knew White personally (having written music for several of his stage plays in the 1980s) and his setting perfectly complements the simplicity and sincerity of the prose. The music moves in an arc from its quietly insistent beginnings and rhapsodic central section to a haunting conclusion, where the brooding opening returns before evaporating into the air...