Symphonic Suite from Gloriana op. 53a 布瑞顿 交响组曲葛罗里亚娜 总谱 博浩版

这是布里顿从其 1953 年的加冕歌剧中提炼出的多首音乐会曲目之一，这部作品近年来才得到应有的评价。这部歌剧的戏剧核心是伊丽莎白一世与埃塞克斯伯爵之间不断发展的关系，当埃塞克斯伯爵被判犯有叛国罪并被处以死刑时，女王在对伯爵的私人感情与公共责任之间纠结不已。音乐世界充满了恰如其分的 "伊丽莎白 "氛围，著名的宫廷舞唤起了一种时代气息，但又不失稚拙。组曲以歌剧开场的激昂的锦标赛音乐开始，随后是萦绕心头的第二首琵琶曲（"他能结束自己的命运是幸福的"）、活力四射的宫廷舞（可作为单独作品演奏），最后以歌剧尾声的音乐结束。这首组曲很适合放在音乐会曲目的两端，是介绍布里顿最不应该被忽视的舞台作品之一的绝佳作品。该组曲为管弦乐队配乐；第二首琵琶曲由埃塞克斯伯爵二世罗伯特-德弗罗（Robert Devereux，1566-1601 年）作词，可由男高音独唱，也可由管弦乐队中的双簧管独奏

作曲家: Britten, Benjamin
乐器: orchestra, tenor solo ad libitum
出版社: Boosey & Hawkes

曲目:
The Tournament - The Lute Song - The Courtly Dances: March - Coranto - Pavane - Morris Dance - Galliard - Lavolta - Gloriana moritura

原文简介:
This was one of several concert pieces that Britten extracted from his 1953 coronation opera, a work which has only received its rightful due in recent years. The opera’s dramatic core is the unfolding relationship between Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex, the Queen torn between her private affection for the Earl and her sense of public duty when he is found guilty of treason and condemned to death. The sound-world has an appropriately ‘Elizabethan’ atmosphere, the famous Courtly Dances evoking a period flavour without ever lapsing into pastiche. The Suite begins with the bracing Tournament music that opens the opera, followed by the haunting Second Lute Song (‘Happy were he could finish forth his fate’), the vigorous Courtly Dances (which may be performed as a separate work), and concludes with the music of the opera’s Epilogue. The Suite could happily sit at either end of a concert programme and is an excellent introduction to one of Britten’s most undeservedly neglected stage works. It is scored for full orchestra; the Second Lute Song, with words by Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex (1566–1601), may be sung by a solo tenor or played by a solo oboe from the orchestra.