具体描述
An exploration of the world’s most famous and challenging song cycle, Schubert's Winter Journey (Winterreise), by a leading interpreter of the work, who teases out the themes—literary, historical, psychological—that weave through the twenty-four songs that make up this legendary masterpiece.
Completed in the last months of the young Schubert’s life, Winterreise has come to be considered the single greatest piece of music in the history of Lieder. Deceptively laconic—these twenty-four short poems set to music for voice and piano are performed uninterrupted in little more than an hour—it nonetheless has an emotional depth and power that no music of its kind has ever equaled. A young man, rejected by his beloved, leaves the house where he has been living and walks out into snow and darkness. As he wanders away from the village and into the empty countryside, he experiences a cascade of emotions—loss, grief, anger, and acute loneliness, shot through with only fleeting moments of hope—until the landscape he inhabits becomes one of alienation and despair. Originally intended to be sung to an intimate gathering, performances of Winterreise now pack the greatest concert halls around the world.
Drawing equally on his vast experience performing this work (he has sung it more than one hundred times), on his musical knowledge, and on his training as a scholar, Bostridge teases out the enigmas and subtle meanings of each of the twenty-four lyrics to explore for us the world Schubert inhabited, his biography and psychological makeup, the historical and political pressures within which he became one of the world’s greatest composers, and the continuing resonances and affinities that our ears still detect today, making Schubert’s wanderer our mirror.
作者简介
IAN BOSTRIDGE is universally recognized as one of the greatest Lieder interpreters of our era. In addition to his numerous award-winning recordings of opera and song, he was the original Caliban in Thomas Adès’s The Tempest, and he played Gustav von Aschenbach in English National Opera’s landmark 2007 production of Death in Venice. A D. Phil of Oxford University for his work on the significance of witchcraft in English public life from 1650 to 1750, he lives in London with his wife, the writer and critic Lucasta Miller, and their two children.
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这本书的书名《Schubert's Winter Journey》让我脑海中立刻浮现出壮丽的冬日景象,皑皑白雪覆盖着大地,寒风呼啸而过,而在这冰天雪地之中,一个人孤身前行。我预感这本书的情感基调会是深沉而压抑的,但又蕴含着一种不易察觉的希望。我一直对那些能够描绘出人类内心复杂情感的作品抱有极大的兴趣,尤其是在极端环境下,人的情感会如何被放大和扭曲。我希望这本书能够深入探讨这种孤独感,以及在这种孤独中,主人公如何与自己的内心对话,如何面对过去的伤痛,又如何寻觅未来的方向。我设想,这本书或许会通过一系列的意象,比如冻结的河流、枯萎的树枝、遥远的灯火,来象征主人公内心的状态和情感的起伏。我期待的是,作者能够用一种极具画面感和感染力的语言,将这种“冬季旅程”的意境具象化,让我们仿佛身临其境,感受到那份寒冷,那份寂寥,以及那份在绝望中孕育的微光。
刚拿到这本书,封面设计就深深吸引了我。那是一种沉静的、略带忧郁的蓝色,与封面上隐约可见的冬日风景交织在一起,仿佛预示着一段充满感伤的旅程。我迫不及待地翻开,希望这本书能够带我进入一个截然不同的世界,去感受那种在寒冷中寻觅温暖,在失落中追寻慰藉的心灵状态。我一直对那些能够触及灵魂深处的故事或作品情有独钟,而“冬季旅程”这个名字本身就充满了诗意与象征,让我充满了期待。我设想着,这会是一次关于孤独、思念、甚至是自我救赎的探索,或许伴随着凄美的音乐,又或许是穿插着深沉的哲学思考。我希望作者能够用细腻的笔触,描绘出主人公在漫长冬季里的内心挣扎与成长,那些细微的情感波动,那些不为人知的隐秘心事,都能在这本书中得到淋漓尽致的展现。我更期待的是,在阅读的过程中,我能够从中找到一些共鸣,能够在一字一句间,看见自己的影子,感受到一种超越时空的连接。
光是书名《Schubert's Winter Journey》就给我一种独特的期待感。我猜想,这会是一本充满画面感和情感深度的作品,或许以一种极其细腻、甚至可以说是唯美的方式,来描绘一段充满挑战的个人旅程。我一直对那些能够深入挖掘人物内心世界,展现其情感变化和心路历程的作品情有独钟。这种“冬季旅程”的概念,在我看来,不仅仅是指物理上的迁徙,更可能是一种心灵上的历练,是在严酷的环境下,个体如何面对内心的荒芜,如何寻找希望的种子。我期待作者能够用一种独特的叙事手法,带领读者一同体验主人公在旅途中的孤独、迷茫、以及可能出现的顿悟。我希望这本书能够给我带来一种宁静而深刻的阅读体验,让我在合上书本之后,仍然能感受到那些文字所留下的余韵,就像一首悠扬的旋律,久久地在心中回荡。
这本书的名字,"Schubert's Winter Journey",瞬间勾起了我对 Schubert 那些充满忧伤与美好的艺术作品的联想。我总是对那些能够将音乐与文学巧妙结合的作品充满好奇,它们似乎能够通过不同的艺术形式,达到一种更深层次的情感共鸣。我希望这本书能够不仅仅是关于一个故事,更能够传递出一种艺术的氛围,一种能够触动我们内心深处的情感。我预设了,这本书可能会带我走进一个充满诗意与哲思的世界,在那里,文字与旋律交织,勾勒出一段关于失去、寻找与内省的旅程。我渴望在阅读的过程中,能够感受到那种淡淡的忧伤,那种对逝去的美好之追寻,以及在漫长的冬日里,内心深处不屈的生命力。我期待着,作者能够用一种极具韵律感和感染力的文字,将这种“冬季旅程”所蕴含的深沉情感,缓缓地铺展开来,让我们在字里行间,找到属于自己的那份感悟。
拿到《Schubert's Winter Journey》这本书,首先吸引我的是这个名字本身所蕴含的意境。它让人联想到一段漫长而孤寂的旅程,可能伴随着凛冽的寒风和萧瑟的景色,但也可能隐藏着一丝不易察觉的温暖与希望。我一直以来都对那些能够探讨人类内心深处情感的作品充满兴趣,尤其是那些关于孤独、失落、以及在逆境中寻求救赎的故事。我希望这本书能够提供一种独特的视角,去审视一个人在极端环境下的心理状态,去描绘那些在沉默中滋生的情绪,以及在漫长等待中萌生的希望。我期待作者能够用一种富有感染力的语言,将这种“冬季旅程”的意境具象化,让读者能够身临其境地感受到主人公内心的波澜起伏,并在其中找到某种共鸣,或者是一种新的思考方式。
一天一章的睡前读物终于看完了。说实话我对IB的声音和咬字一直不是很喜欢...书挺通俗易懂的,条理超清晰又不缺有趣的部分,我真实被他的学识惊叹...怎么这也知道那也知道啊?以及莫名感觉生活里可能是个非常sharp and blunt的人。比起唱歌反而很惊叹他写书的能力。大概是tenor里长得最帅的,帅的里最会写书的吧。
从时代背景,舒伯特个人生活,Winterreise的曲调变化、音符使用,Müller诗的文学意义及两者对cycle的调整完善,并结合了Ian叔自己的演出经历和个人感想来了解Winterreise。如Ian在文末所言,这本书只是对Winterreise这个复杂而美丽的意义之网的持续探索。书里有很多详实的资料,也有许多Sparkles让我回味无穷!
Very glad to have got my hands on this book. The tone was personal yet also a bit academic, very useful companion to the Winterreise.
挺好的
从时代背景,舒伯特个人生活,Winterreise的曲调变化、音符使用,Müller诗的文学意义及两者对cycle的调整完善,并结合了Ian叔自己的演出经历和个人感想来了解Winterreise。如Ian在文末所言,这本书只是对Winterreise这个复杂而美丽的意义之网的持续探索。书里有很多详实的资料,也有许多Sparkles让我回味无穷!