作曲者 | Christian Mason (b. 1984) |
タイトル | Shadowy fish |
サブタイトル | Hommage à Schubert |
出版社 | Breitkopf & Härtel・ブライトコプフ |
楽器編成 | Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Piano |
品番 | 979-g108faba3 |
形状 | 72 ページ・23 x 30.5 cm・281 g・stapled |
演奏時間 | 15分 |
作曲年 | 2020年 |
出版番号 | EB 9399 |
ISMN | 979-0004188736 |
サンプル | https://www.breitkopf.com/assets/haendler/samples/9790004188736.pdf |
One of my favourite pieces of music as a child - and I still love it - was Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet. It was partly the wonderful music, of course, so light-hearted and joyful on the surface, yet with twists and turns and murky depths of feeling too. But I also liked the picture of a trout on the album sleeve - such beautiful creatures! Last year, while resident at the Villa Concordia in Bamberg, as I took daily walks along the Regnitz river, I observed the trout as they calmly hovered and swayed in the shallows… But if they felt my shadow they were gone in a split second! If you ever get a chance to look closely at brown trout you see that they are covered in myriad brown/red spots of varied sizes; camouflage I suppose. Now those patterns seem to be mixing in my mind with the shifting colours of the spectral arpeggios that flow through this little piece. It’s a watery piece, with rippling waves, shimmering surfaces and textural veils around the melodies which flow through it. But it also takes inspiration (and it’s title) from a Pablo Neruda poem: the third stanza of “Every Day You Play” includes the line “The sky is a net crammed with shadowy fish.” There’s no singer, but I imagine an invisible or imaginary voice somewhere behind (or beyond) the music, and so the score includes a melodic setting of the text. Even though this is not performed by a voice, the melody is always played by the ensemble - especially high register cello - making the piece something like the inverse of a “song without words.” (Christian Mason)