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发表于 2004-4-15 21:20:53
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从Karl Schumann写的"THE CHAMBER WORKS OF BRAHMS"摘录一段英文,E文好的DX翻译呀:
"Brahms's sensitivity and depth of feeling, and his contemplative rather than active temperament, ruled out for him from the start the grand symphonic style and directed him to the field of chamber music. Even his symphonies are chamber music." So said the music historian Paul Bekker in his celebrated study (1918), "The Symphony from Beethoven to Mahler." This is an exaggerated expression of a true enough state of affairs: Johannes Brahms, as pianist, began with chamber music and remained devoted to the genre all through his life. Its intimacy suited his meditative rather phlegmatic nature and his taste for involved polyphony; and writing chamber music, absolute music, was the sign of his opposition to, and separation from, the dramatic and programmatic orchestral writing of the "New German" followers of Wagner and Liszt.
译文可能不准,聊胜于无。欢迎指正:
“勃拉姆斯敏感又深沉的感情,好沉思而不外露的个性,促使他不可能从宏大的交响乐风格开始,而导致他进入了室内乐的领域。甚至他的交响乐也是室内乐。”音乐历史学家保罗贝克1918年在一次庆祝勃拉姆斯的研讨会上如是说。“从贝多芬到马勒的交响乐”,这是一种被十足夸张了的表述形态。身为钢琴家,勃拉姆斯从室内乐开始,并终身醉心与保持了这种风格。室内乐密切的关系适合他沉思冥想而非冷漠的天性,以及他于对位法的偏爱;写作室内乐这种纯音乐,也是他反对与脱离戏剧性和标题音乐管弦乐队写法的一个标记,就像瓦格纳和李斯特“新德国”追随者们主张的那样。 |
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