简介：
Claude Debussy’s Cello Sonata of 1915, the first in a projected set of six ‘sonates pour divers instruments’ (of which only three would be completed) has been the subject of much dispute ever since its inception. Debussy, instinctively opposed to Germanic values – an attitude considerably hardened by the conflict – insisted on being described on the sonata’s title page as ‘musicien français’; and the love of French culture implied in that inscription informs the nature of this unique work. The sonata owes much of its inspiration to the French baroque music that Debussy so admired, the opening flourish (which reappears throughout the work in myriad forms) reminiscent of a keyboard work by Rameau or Couperin. Does the sonata also pay homage to the ancient Italian commedia dell’arte world of theatre, and its sad clown Pierrot? A cellist who played through the sonata with Debussy in 1916, Louis Rosoor, seems to have thought so, and apparently dis tributed a programme sheet telling the ‘story’ of the sonata, featuring Pierrot, at his subsequent performances of the work – much to the annoyance of Debussy (who took firmly against him). Another interesting theory that has emerged quite recently is that throughout the sonata Debussy embeds hidden quotations from the Lutheran chorale Ein feste Burg, the theme of which is written out quite clearly, in Debussy’s hand, above the second movement in one of the two surviving manuscripts. He had already quoted this chorale (unhidden) in the middle movement of his two-piano suite En blanc et noir, also composed in 1915; inscribed above the score of that movement is a quotation from Francois Villon’s poem Ballade contre les ennemis 4de la France. Some writers have now traced the contours of the chorale melody within much of the cello sonata’s material, set against – so these writers claim – fragments of the Marseillaise(also hinted at in En blanc et noir). This would make an interesting hidden programme for the work: German nationalism set against French resistance. I cannot say that I am quite convinced, personally; but who knows?
曲目：
Debussy, Bridge, Fauré, Webern - The Cello in Wartime (Steven Isserlis, Connie Shih) 2017 DEBUSSY, Claude (1862–1918)
1 Sonata for Cello and Piano, L. 144 (1915)I. Prologue. Lent, sostenuto e molto risoluto 10'324'072 II. Serenade. Modérément animé
2'593 III. Finale. Animé, léger et nerveux
3'22BRIDGE, Frank (1879–1941)
4 Sonata for Cello and Piano, H. 125 (1913–17) (Winthrop Rogers)I. Allegro ben moderato 23'0810'35
5 II. Adagio non troppo – Molto allegro agitato – Tempo I 12'26FAURÉ, Gabriel (1845–1924)
6 Sonata No. 1 in D minor for cello and piano, Op. 109 (1917)I. Allegro 18'345'27
7 II. Andante 7'05
8 III. Final. Allegro comodo 5'58WEBERN, Anton (1883–1945)
9 Drei kleine Stücke, Op. 11 (1914) (Universal Edition)I. Mäßige achtel 2'531'01
10 II. Sehr bewegt 0'19
11 III. Äußerst ruhig 1'29
12 SAINT-SAËNS, Camille (1835–1921)The Swan from The Carnival of the Animals (1886) 3'35PARRY, Charles Hubert Hastings (1848–1918)
13 Jerusalem (1916) 2'19NOVELLO, Ivor (1893–1951)
14 Keep the Home-Fires Burning (1914) 2'02TRADITIONAL
15 God Save the King 0'50TT: 65'38 试听：
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