MacMillan: Sinfonietta; Symphony No2_音乐专辑
MacMillan: Sinfonietta; Symphony No2
又名: 麦克米兰《小交响曲》《坎姆诺克镇集市》《第二交响曲》
表演者: Scottish Chamber Orchestra/James MacMillan/Graeme McNaught
专辑类型: Import
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2000-11-21
唱片数: 1
出版者: Bis
条形码: 0675754292720
专辑简介
The Sinfonietta (1991) is the only work to have been recorded before. It begins and ends softly but disquietingly; at the start MacMillan makes effective use of the soprano saxophone's timbres and of rustling string figurations. Without warning, the music becomes violent, and the listener's ear is assaulted with alarming drums and brass. If the first minutes of the Sinfonietta seem somewhat unstable, its long central section must seem fully unhinged. In time, the unrest is dampened but not completely stilled, and solos from an English horn, violin, and piano reestablish the initial unsettled mood. The Sinfonietta is dedicated to the composer's wife, and was commissioned by the London Sinfonietta.
Cumnock is the Scottish town where MacMillan spent part of his childhood. Cumnock Fair (1998-99), scored for string orchestra and piano, is a lighter work than those that bookend it on this CD, but it is anything but insubstantial. The opening passage sounds like a Scottish folk tune (although it is MacMillan's own) and, with its insistent unison writing, also like something from Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time. Other tunes, traditional and newly composed, succeed it. This is not a mere potpourri, however, but an atmospheric and psychologically acute evocation of a place and a time, in spirit (if not in content) much like the work of Delius. The writing for piano, rich in trills and clusters, is very effective.
The Symphony No. 2 also was completed in 1999. It was premiered by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in three Scottish cities in December of that year. This symphony finds MacMillan at his most mysterious and allusive. The first movement is a brief but highly charged prelude dominated by a brass chorale, splashes of color (notably the harp and woodwind "ripplings"), and unusual texture (the nervous plucking of strings, producing a raindrop effect). Although the central movement is full of sudden contrasts, there is no sense of collage; the juxtapositions make sense. Material from the first movement is developed, and MacMillan introduces new material as well, including a disruptive militaristic element (shades of Nielsen's Fifth Symphony, given the prominence of the snare drum). Tension grows throughout the movement, and, when a cataclysmic climax is reached, one feels frustration and exhaustion instead of resolution. The last movement, again short, finally achieves an extraordinary catharsis, and the opening of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (a work implied earlier in the symphony) plays a major role in achieving it. Is MacMillan suggesting, in fact, that "all you need is love"?
By Raymond Tuttle
曲目
JAMES MACMILLAN
Sinfonietta
01. Sinfonietta 18:39
Cumnock Fair
02. Cumnock Fair 12:17
Graeme McNaught, piano
Symphony No. 2
03. I. — 03:28
04. II. — 14:29
05. III. — 05:26
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
James MacMillan, Conductor
