Tokyo-city

蘭-高辛是奧利維耶-梅西安（Olivier Messiaen）在巴黎國家音樂學院（CNSM）的學生，也是一位名副其實的聲音煉金術士，他創作了一部感性而閃亮的作品，旨在喚起聽眾內心的覺醒，日本人稱之為 "Satori"。十年後創作的鋼琴獨奏曲《東京-城市》也汲取了同樣的靈感，並在數次日本之行中得到啟發。高辛試圖再現他在日本大都市漫步時所體驗到的各種感覺：面對一個充滿和聲與色彩的熙熙攘攘的世界，一種被其廣闊吞沒的恐懼讓位於一種眩暈。作品採用雙重對稱結構（在音域和節奏方面）：在鋼琴低音的神秘開頭之後，一個音樂形象逐漸從浮動的複調中浮現出來，產生了一首名副其實的托卡塔曲，它慢慢變形，就像一個變形記。然後，只剩下晶瑩剔透的和聲，作品在鋼琴的最高音上稀稀落落地結束""

作曲家: Allain Gaussin
樂器: Piano
出版社: Alphonse Leduc
原文簡介:
“Allain Gaussin, a pupil of Olivier Messiaen at the CNSM in Paris, and a veritable alchemist of sound, created a sensual and sparkling work that aims to induce in listeners the sort of internal awakening that the Japanese refer to as Satori the title given to a piece for solo clarinet he wrote in 1998. Composed a decade later, Tokyo-City for solo Piano draws on the same inspiration, fuelled by several stays in Japan. Gaussin sets out to reproduce the various sensations he experienced during his walks around the Japanese megalopolis: a fear of being swallowed up by its vastness gives way to a bedazzlement in the face of a buzzing universe awash with harmonies and colours. The work follows a dual symmetrical structure (in terms of register and tempo): after an enigmatic start entrusted to the low notes of the piano, a musical figure gradually emerges from floating polyphonies, producing a veritable toccata which is slowly deformed, like an anaËmorphosis. Then, only a glimmering of crystal-clear harmonies remains, and the work ends sparsely on the highest notes of the piano.”