Sometime Voices

喬治-本雅明（George Benjamin）為男中音、合唱團和管弦樂隊創作的《有時的聲音》（Sometime Voices）是莎士比亞《暴風雨》第三幕第二場中卡裡班的著名演說。該作品創作於 1996 年，時長 9 分鐘，在陰森恐怖的寧靜和水銀瀉地般的活躍之間，管弦樂隊演奏著綿長有力的男中音。在這背後，合唱團如同精靈一般，時而和藹可親，時而來勢洶洶，呼喚著他的名字"

作曲家: Benjamin, George
樂器: Baritone Voice, Mixed Voices, Orchestra
出版社: Faber Music
原文簡介:
George Benjamin’s Sometime Voices for baritone, chorus and orchestra is a setting of Caliban’s famous speech in Act III Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Composed in 1996, the 9-minute work places long, forceful baritone lines above an orchestra that drifts between an eerie tranquillity and mercurial activity. Behind this, the chorus, acting as spirits – sometimes benign, sometimes menacing – invoke his name. ‘… refined aural sensibility and meticulous craftsmanship… What we experience, in this haunting soundscape of shifting metres, cross-currents of orchestral breath and vibration, baffling fragments of calling and humming voices, are not only the magical sounds themselves, but Caliban’s own responses. His frissons of sensuous delight, his bewilderment, above all – in a brilliantly achieved orchestral climax – his inchoate terror are all musicked into being.’ The Times (Hilary Finch), 6 May 2003 'An atmospheric and subtly orchestrated piece, it compels attention from the opening wisps of sound on xylophone and mandolin, threading its way through forceful baritone phrases (William Dazeley, excellent) and Daphnis-like choral spirits into a perfectly-paced crescendo before dying away in a trance.' Financial Times (Andrew Clark), 16 September 1996