Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge op.10 Arrangement for Piano Duo 布瑞顿 布瑞基主题变奏曲编曲钢琴二重奏 双钢琴 博浩版

科林-麦克菲斯（Colin McPhees）钢琴二重奏改编的布里顿斯早期弦乐名作首次出版。尼古拉斯-克拉克（布里顿-皮尔斯基金会图书馆馆长）在序言中介绍了布里顿 1937 年原谱的背景，向他的第一位作曲老师弗兰克-布里奇致敬，并介绍了布里顿在萨尔茨堡音乐节演出和希尔弗瑟姆广播电台播出后立即在国际上取得的成功。第二次世界大战爆发后，布里顿在美国居住三年期间，通过他的美国东道主威廉-梅尔和伊丽莎白-梅尔，首次结识了加拿大民族音乐学家麦克菲（1900-64 年）。1942 年，麦克菲的钢琴二重奏被用作舞蹈剧团在纽约国家剧院演出的新芭蕾舞剧《金克斯》的伴奏。由于布里顿当时已踏上返回英国的航程，他没有亲眼目睹自己的音乐被使用，而布里顿参与编曲的程度也鲜为人知。由于《Moto Perputuo》的手稿仅存一叶，科林-马修斯（Colin Matthews）对这首变奏曲进行了大量的编辑工作，以便出版"

作曲家: Britten, Benjamin
校订者: Matthews, Colin / McPhee, Colin Carhart
乐器: 2 pianos
出版社: Boosey & Hawkes

曲目:
Introduction and Theme - March - Romance - Aria Italiana - Bourrée Classique - Wiener Walzer - Moto Perpetuo - Funeral March - Chant - Fugue and Finale

原文简介:
First publication of Colin McPhee’s piano duo arrangement of Britten’s early string orchestra masterpiece. The preface, by Nicholas Clark (Librarian at the Britten–Pears Foundation) gives the background to Britten’s original 1937 score, a tribute to his first composition teacher, Frank Bridge, and its immediate international success in performances at the Salzburg Festival and a Radio Hilversum broadcast. Britten first met the Canadian ethnomusicologist McPhee (1900–64) through his American hosts William and Elizabeth Mayer during his three-year residence in the USA at the outbreak of the Second World War. McPhee’s piano duo arrangement was used as the accompaniment to a new ballet, Jinx, performed by the Dance Players at the National Theater, New York, in 1942. Britten did not witness this use of his music as by then he had embarked on his return voyage to England, and little is known of the extent of Britten’s involvement in the arrangement. As only a single leaf of manuscript for the Moto Perputuo exists, extensive editorial work on this variation was undertaken for the present publication by Colin Matthews.