Sudden Time

像在一個沒有時間的世界裡突然出現的時間"--這是華萊士-史蒂文斯（Wallace Stevens）在《武術快板》（Martial Cadenza）中的詩句，也是喬治-本傑明（George Benjamin）為其 15 分鐘管弦樂巡演《突然出現的時間》所取的標題。這首樂曲在作曲家的作品中佔有舉足輕重的地位，它充滿了生動的獨創性，從樂曲結尾處高亢的中提琴獨奏，到由四支中音長笛和兩支高音直笛組成的獨特而誘人的段落，都讓人想起本雅明的《安塔拉》中令人回味無窮的聲音世界。該作品的結構完全以線性方式構思，聽覺上的和諧是在各獨立樂段的融合中產生的，這些樂段偶爾會在脈動時間的清晰瞬間凝聚在一起"

作曲家: Benjamin, George
樂器: Orchestra
出版社: Faber Music
原文簡介:
‘It was like sudden time in a world without time’ – the lines from ‘Martial Cadenza’ by Wallace Stevens which gave George Benjamin his title for his 15-minute orchestral tour de force Sudden Time. Pivotal in the composer’s output, it’s a score filled with vivid originality, from the extraordinarily high viola solo which closes the piece to an individual and alluring passage four a group of four alto flutes and two garklein (sopranissimo) recorders which recalls the evocative sound world of Benjamin’s Antara. The work’s texture is conceived entirely in linear terms, the audible harmony being created in the fusion of the separate strands which occasionally coalesce in lucid moments of pulsed time. ‘… marvellous morphing dreamscape…’ The Times (Geoff Brown), 9 June 2003 '. . .perhaps the most impressive, motivated handling of orchestral forces in an output which has always demonstrated an extraordinary control of large forms. And the most telling of its time-tricks is that it compacts such a fecundity of ideas into a duration that, you are astonished to discover, barely exceeds 15 minutes. It feels twice as long; and I don't say that as criticism. Merely, as a tribute to the substance, depth and technical accomplishment of an outstanding score.' The Independent on Sunday (Michael White), 25 July 1993