The Golden Vanity 布瑞頓
《金色的虛榮》的合唱部分創作於 1966 年,供世界著名的維也納童聲合唱團演出,該合唱團受布裡頓委託創作此曲,並於 1967 年在奧爾德堡音樂節上演出"
作曲家: Britten, Benjamin
樂器: Boys Choir, Piano
出版社: Faber Music
原文簡介:
Chorus part of The Golden Vanity which was composed in 1966 for performance by the world-famous Vienna Boys Choir, who commissioned it from Britten and went on to perform it at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1967.
A vaudeville on an old English ballad , the work's double chorus of trebles tells the story of a sea battle with Turkish pirates, the humble cabin-boy who saves the day, and a treacherous sea-captain who refuses to keep the promise of his daughter's hand in marriage and lets the hero drown. There is typical Britten-esque use of folk-song idiom with undertones of dissonance and chromaticism suggesting the tragic aspects of the lonely, heroic schoolboy.