| 词条 | A Birthday Hansel |
| 释义 |
Composed in March 1975,[4][5] the piece was given its debut performance in January 1976 by Britten's life partner Peter Pears and harpist Osian Ellis.[2] It was the last piece which Britten wrote for Pears, and one of his very last works. In recognition of the Queen Mother's Scottish ancestry, Britten chose seven poems by Burns, sung in the Scots language, and performed without a break. 'Hansel' is a Scots word meaning welcome gift or present. At Britten's request, Colin Matthews arranged four of the songs for voice and piano; these were published separately as Four Burns Songs in 1978.[2] SongsThe songs are:[6]
A complete performance takes about 18 minutes.[7] Musicologist Peter Evans has analysed the cycle. It is through-composed, with the harp supplying transitions from the mood of one poem to the next. As befits a birthday gift, it does not attempt to point out morals nor to invite deep reflection. The songs do not explicitly utilise Scottish musical forms, but are flavoured by echoes of them. Although the texts are all by a single poet, the cycle does not have a sense of the cumulative illumination of the poet's creative character as is found in other such cycles by Britten. It is "delightful but undemanding".[5] References1. ^{{cite book|author1=Walter Bernhart|author2=Werner Wolf|author3=David L. Mosley|title=Word and Music Studies: Essays on the Song Cycle and on Defining the Field : Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Word and Music Studies at Ann Arbor, MI, 1999|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aBpXzAF644gC&pg=PA224|accessdate=7 October 2012|year=2001|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=978-90-420-1575-3|pages=224–}} 2. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.brittenpears.org/page.php?pageid=490|title=A Birthday Hansel|publisher=Britten-Pears Foundation}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:gFwctFrH0KoJ:www.eclassical.com/shop/art85/BIS-CD-1510_booklet.pdf-5b62ee.pdf+&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShq9zIc0m8638dWW6cv1_GATWdaj9_LDkAvKoDbku4pQGL0DcEJapQQRmS3x5dfw4gzyRay76Gj8wMjjqrxn6QXJZ_r26YCkFESSO2mQRMKVIGtfYvSnMXFhI3-tCm7txEELLmb&sig=AHIEtbQB_UwOrwtXg7797U2pOR8q2KfI_Q|title=Liner notes to Who Are These Children?|publisher=eclassical.com}} 4. ^1 {{cite book|title=Benjamin Britten: A Biography|first=Humphrey|last=Carpenter|authorlink=Humphrey Carpenter|page=572|publisher=Faber and Faber|year=1992|isbn=0-571-14324-5 }} 5. ^1 {{cite book|title=The Music of Benjamin Britten|first=Peter |last=Evans|authorlink=Peter Evans (musicologist)|pages=392-394, 414, 415|publisher=J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.|location=London, Melbourne and Toronto|year=1979|isbn=0-460-04350-1 }} 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.lieder.net/lieder/assemble_texts.html?SongCycleId=261 |title=A Birthday Hansel |website=lieder.net |accessdate=13 October 2017}} 7. ^{{AllMusic |class=composition |id=a-birthday-hansel-song-cycle-for-tenor-harp-op-92-mc0002354875 |title=Benjamin Britten{{snd}}A Birthday Hansel, song cycle for tenor & harp, Op. 92 |accessdate=13 October 2017}}
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