Shadowlines

2001年，喬治-本傑明為皮埃爾-洛朗-艾瑪爾（Pierre-Laurent Aimard）創作了《影子》（Shadowlines），這是喬治-本傑明近二十年來的首部鋼琴作品。作品中的六個樂章（均以不同的方式演繹）時而輕柔，時而爆發，時而親密無間，時而渾然一體，構成了一個長達 15 分鐘的連續結構，極富戲劇性。本雅明的創作過程往往是隱秘的，超越了標準的轉調和轉位技巧；從 "彈性 "卡農（線條根據不同的速度擴張、收縮或融合），到本雅明自己發明的程式，旋律線條和和絃通過一個簡單的音程間代碼，然後出現完全不同的效果。一個苦澀的八度和絃序列變成了一個類似藍調的七度主和絃序列，而一個激烈、鏗鏘有力的二聲部複調則變成了溫和的五聲部吆喝"

作曲家: Benjamin, George
樂器: Piano
出版社: Faber Music
原文簡介:
Composed in 2001 for Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Shadowlines was George Benjamin’s first piano work in almost two decades. By turns gentle and explosive, intimate and monolithic, its six movements (all canons in different ways) form a continuous 15-minute structure of great drama. More often than not, Benjamin’s processes are hidden, and go beyond standard techniques of transposition and inversion; from ‘elastic’ canons, where lines expand, contract or fuse according to variable speeds, to a procedure of Benjamin’s own invention where melodic lines and chords pass through a simple intervallic code and emerge totally transformed. A bitter sequence of octatonic chords becomes a blues-like sequence of dominant 7ths, whilst a fierce, plangently chromatic two-part polyphony is transfigured into mild, pentatonic yodelling. ‘… the first major piano work of the 21st century… Technical rigour and ingenuity lie behind everything, as they do in Bach; but as in Bach, they disappear in the expression of feeling – the impression of the piece is of free fantasy.’ The Boston Globe (Richard Dyer), 22 July 2003