布里頓驚世杰作: 北京國(guó)際音樂(lè)節(jié)紀(jì)念本杰明?布里頓百周年誕辰系列演出

為紀(jì)念本杰明?布里頓百周年誕辰，北京國(guó)際音樂(lè)節(jié)向中國(guó)觀(guān)眾推出這位英國(guó)二十世紀(jì)作曲家的兩部功成名就的大型作品的首演。由著名指揮家夏爾?迪圖瓦執(zhí)棒倫敦之聲合唱團(tuán)、上海交響樂(lè)團(tuán)及上海之春兒童合唱團(tuán)演繹布里頓的《戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)安魂曲》（10 月5 日）。在鄧肯?沃德率領(lǐng)下的杭州愛(ài)樂(lè)樂(lè)團(tuán)與倫敦之聲合唱團(tuán)，首次演繹布里頓以一個(gè)被棄鄉(xiāng)村漁民悲慘故事為題材的成名之作—歌劇《彼得?格賴(lài)姆斯》（交響音樂(lè)會(huì)版，10 月8 日）。

《戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)安魂曲》

時(shí)間：2013年10月5日星期六19:30

地點(diǎn)：保利劇院

票價(jià)：RMB VIP / 180 / 120 / 80

這部驚世杰作于1962年的首演，也是考文垂大教堂在第二次世界大戰(zhàn)期間被德國(guó)炮火摧毀后的重建落成的典禮日。在北京國(guó)際音樂(lè)節(jié)上，《戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)安魂曲》將在中國(guó)首演。

布里頓的《戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)安魂曲》可謂二十世紀(jì)音樂(lè)史上的里程碑，若與莫扎特、勃拉姆斯、威爾第和福萊的安魂曲相提并論也毫不遜色。《戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)安魂曲》受益于威爾第《安魂曲》戲劇效果的影響，而與勃拉姆斯將傳統(tǒng)祈禱書(shū)和本國(guó)方言并置的做法不同。《戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)安魂曲》的唱詞摘自在第一次世界大戰(zhàn)中喪生的士兵威爾弗雷德?歐文的詩(shī)歌，充分體現(xiàn)了布里頓的和平主義及反戰(zhàn)思想。當(dāng)年世界首演的三位獨(dú)唱演員也分別來(lái)自俄羅斯、英國(guó)和德國(guó)，突顯了全世界對(duì)和平的渴望。 2013年的中國(guó)首演，同樣來(lái)自俄羅斯、英國(guó)和德國(guó)籍的獨(dú)唱演員陣容更將給人留下深刻的印象。天才布里頓的神來(lái)之筆，在其作品中加入了童聲合唱—兒童純樸的聲音既是對(duì)無(wú)辜生命逝去的嘆息，也能激起人們對(duì)未來(lái)的憧憬。本場(chǎng)音樂(lè)會(huì)是一個(gè)絕對(duì)不容錯(cuò)過(guò)的音樂(lè)歷程。

歌劇：《彼得?格賴(lài)姆斯》

時(shí)間：2013年10月8日星期二19:30

地點(diǎn)：保利劇院

票價(jià)：RMB VIP / 180 / 120 / 80

被譽(yù)為兩個(gè)多世紀(jì)以來(lái)最重要的英國(guó)歌劇《彼得?格賴(lài)姆斯》，創(chuàng)作于第二次世界大戰(zhàn)期間。當(dāng)年，布里頓暫居于加利福尼亞州，偶然讀到英國(guó)小說(shuō)家E.M.福斯特撰寫(xiě)一篇關(guān)于18世紀(jì)詩(shī)人喬治?克拉布的詩(shī)詞文章。克拉布筆下那位漁夫的悲慘人生深深吸引了作曲家，令他感觸地共鳴：“個(gè)體與群體的斗爭(zhēng)—這是一個(gè)非常接近我內(nèi)心的主題。”

歌劇于1945年在薩德勒威爾斯劇院的首演令布里頓聲名鵲起，成為了英國(guó)當(dāng)時(shí)最偉大的青年作曲家。翌年，倫納德?伯恩斯坦在坦格爾伍德指揮該作品，演出大獲成功，將布里頓置于世人面前，其國(guó)際天才的形象由此確立。《彼得?格賴(lài)姆斯》的管弦樂(lè)部分，尤其是穿插在各幕之間描繪大海不同情境的著名間奏曲，不僅在歌劇院甚至在音樂(lè)廳演出也同樣受到觀(guān)眾的青睞。

“家是什么？寧?kù)o如深海。我的家在哪兒？在平靜水面的深處。海水會(huì)吸干我的憂(yōu)傷，潮汐終將涌來(lái)。” —取自蒙泰古?斯拉特所作的《彼得?格賴(lài)姆斯》腳本（第四幕）

“布里頓創(chuàng)作的《彼得?格賴(lài)姆斯》簡(jiǎn)直就是國(guó)寶，是最具標(biāo)志性的英國(guó)歌劇。” —《衛(wèi)報(bào)》

Best of Britten

The 16th Beijing Music Festival celebrates Benjamin Britten’s centenary by introducing two of the composer’s most successful large-scale works to Chinese audiences. Charles Dutoit conducts the London Voices, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the Shanghai Spring Children’s Choir in the China premiere of Britten’s War Requiem, Three nights later (Oct. 8), London Voices returns with the Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of conductor Duncan Ward in the China premiere of Peter Grimes, the tragic tale of an outcast village fisherman and the first of Britten’s operas to become both a critical and popular success.

A Tribute to Benjamin Britten - War Requiem, Op. 66 (China Premiere)

Time: 19:30, Saturday 5 October 2013

Venue: Poly Theater

Tickets: RMB VIP / 180 / 120 / 80

For the centenary year of Benjamin Britten, the Beijing Music Festival presents the China premiere of War Requiem, his landmark work which premiered in 1962 for the consecration of Coventry Cathedral, newly rebuilt after being destroyed by German bombs during the Second World War. A musical milestone of the 20th century and a worthy addition to the canon of Requiems (alongside those of Mozart, Brahms,Verdi and Fauré), Britten’s War Requiem is indebted to the dramatic arc of Verdi’s Requiem yet similar to Brahmsin juxtaposing traditional liturgy with vernacular texts. In Britten’s case, the poetry was written by Wilfred Owen, a soldier killed in combat during the First World War, a choice fully reflecting Britten’s own pacifist, anti-war sentiments. The three soloists in the world premiere were from Russia, Britain and Germany,emphasizing the universality of peace. For the work’s 2013 China premiere, soloists from these countries make an equally impressive lineup. One of Britten’s most inspiring strokes of genius was adding a children’s chorus—treble voices both to accentuate the innocence of lives lost and to offer hope for the future. This is an event not to be missed.

A Tribute to Benjamin Britten - Peter Grimes, Op. 33, Concert Version (China Premiere)

Time: 19:30, Tuesday 8 October 2013

Venue: Poly Theater

Tickets: RMB VIP / 180 / 120 / 80

Hailed by many as the most significant British opera in more than two centuries, Peter Grimes was conceived during the Second World War while the composer was living in California, when he came across an article by E. M. Forster on the 18thcentury poet George Crabbe. A tragic story about a sadistic fisherman named Peter Grimes became to Britten an allegory of “a subject very close to my heart—the struggle of the individual against the masses. The more vicious the society, the more vicious the individual.”

The opera’s premiere in 1945 in at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre marked Britten’s reputation as England’s greatest young composer. Its subsequent success the following year at Tanglewood under the baton of Leonard Bernstein thrust Britten into the limelight as a major international talent. Orchestral music from Peter Grimes—especially the Interludes, depicting different moods of the sea—has earned many fans not only in the opera house but also the concert hall.

（來(lái)源：英國(guó)使館文化教育處，編輯 Helen）