【钢琴】李斯特 - 英国主题音乐会幻想曲 S.694

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Franz Liszt - Fantasie über englische Themen, S694
Performer: Leslie Howard

A perplexing manuscript is that of the Fantasie über englische Themen. The present writer has put the four large extant fragments of this work together with the minimum of addition, just in order to be able to present the material in performance. What we have to begin with, then, is the Allegro from the overture to Handel's Messiah. The opening bars of this section are missing from the manuscript, but were easily reinstated. We do not know if Liszt had transcribed the first, slow section of the overture, but since he does not include its reprise at the end of the Allegro, it was thought best to omit it. The Allegro is then extended and leads to variations on See, the conquering hero comes from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus. The last bars of this section were also missing. The rest of the manuscript is fragmentary and is based on Rule, Britannia (from Arne's Alfred) and God Save the Queen. Liszt may have cannibalized the manuscript to produce his fantasies on each of these two melodies. The Rule, Britannia piece has never been found, but the God Save the Queen fantasy – which briefly refers to Arne's melody towards the end – provided some otherwise missing material, as well as a suitable coda.

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ChochoAngel 2024-04-19

李斯特的Fantasie über englische Themen是一份令人费解的手稿。 Leslie Howard将这部作品现存的四个大片断以最少的衔接拼凑在一起，为了能够在演奏中呈现这些素材。首先从亨德尔的《弥赛亚》（Messiah）序曲中的快板开始，手稿中缺少《弥赛亚》序曲的开头几个小节，我们不知道李斯特是否改编了序曲的第一段缓慢的部分，但由于在快板的结尾处没有再现，所以人们认为最好将其省略。然后快板延伸并进入到亨德尔《犹大·马加贝》（Judas Maccabaeus）中《See, the conquering hero comes》的变奏，但不幸的是本部分的最后几小节也缺失了。手稿的其余部分是零碎的，基于《统治吧！不列颠尼亚！》（Rule, Britannia）和《天佑女王》（God Save the Queen）。李斯特可能曾经分别根据这两个主题创作过幻想曲，但《统治吧！不列颠尼亚！》这首曲子从未被发现，Leslie Howard则根据李斯特创作的《上帝拯救女王》幻想曲为这部作品加上了一个合适的尾声。（实际上李斯特手稿中还有一段根据《上帝拯救女王》创作的尾声片段，但Leslie Howard并没有在录音中使用）

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