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Купил занимательную книжку Николая Слонимского Lexicon of Musical Invective. Это сборник разгромных рецензий на произведения разных композиторов (в основном знаменитых). Увлекательное чтиво. Например:
"Кармен" Бизе: If it were possible to imagine His Satanic Majesty writing an opera, "Carmen" would be the sort of work he might be expected to turn out. After hearing it, we seem to have been assisting at some unholy rites, weirdly fascinating, but painful. ... The dramatic personae in "Carmen" are no types of living beings. The characters evoke no interest in the spectators; nay, more, they are eminently repulsive...
Брукнер: (1) We recoil in horror before this rotting odor which rushes into our nostrils from the disharmonies of this putrefactive counterpoint. His imagination is so incurably sick and warped that anything like regularity in chord progressions and period structure simply do not exist for him. Bruckner composes like a drunkard! (2) Bruckner is the greatest living musical peril, a tonal Antichrist. The violent nature of the man is not written on his face - for his expression indicates the small soul of an average Kapellmeister; and yet he composes nothing but high treason, revolution and murder.
Дебюсси: Debussy's L'Apres-midi d'un faune was a strong example of modern ugliness. The faun must have had a terrible afternoon, for the poor beast brayed on muted horns and whinnied on flutes, and avoided all trace of soothing melody, untile the audience began to share his sorrows.
Совет Листу, куда засунуть его произведения:I beg respectfully to suggest to Liszt and all musicians of the future, get them carefully packed in air-tight boxes (like those awful preserved peas we are occasionally condemned to eat), and leave in their wills a stringent regulation that no rash hand shall bring them to lght until at least 1966. We shall all be dead, then, my friend, and as for our descendants, qu'ils s'arrangent! (written in 1886).
Муссоргский, "Ночь на Лысой горе": ... as hideous a thing as we have ever heard... an orgy of ugliness and an abomination. May we never hear it again!
Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini sometimes sounds like a plague of insects in the Amazon valley, sometimes like a miniature of the Day of Judgement...
"Кармен" Бизе: If it were possible to imagine His Satanic Majesty writing an opera, "Carmen" would be the sort of work he might be expected to turn out. After hearing it, we seem to have been assisting at some unholy rites, weirdly fascinating, but painful. ... The dramatic personae in "Carmen" are no types of living beings. The characters evoke no interest in the spectators; nay, more, they are eminently repulsive...
Брукнер: (1) We recoil in horror before this rotting odor which rushes into our nostrils from the disharmonies of this putrefactive counterpoint. His imagination is so incurably sick and warped that anything like regularity in chord progressions and period structure simply do not exist for him. Bruckner composes like a drunkard! (2) Bruckner is the greatest living musical peril, a tonal Antichrist. The violent nature of the man is not written on his face - for his expression indicates the small soul of an average Kapellmeister; and yet he composes nothing but high treason, revolution and murder.
Дебюсси: Debussy's L'Apres-midi d'un faune was a strong example of modern ugliness. The faun must have had a terrible afternoon, for the poor beast brayed on muted horns and whinnied on flutes, and avoided all trace of soothing melody, untile the audience began to share his sorrows.
Совет Листу, куда засунуть его произведения:I beg respectfully to suggest to Liszt and all musicians of the future, get them carefully packed in air-tight boxes (like those awful preserved peas we are occasionally condemned to eat), and leave in their wills a stringent regulation that no rash hand shall bring them to lght until at least 1966. We shall all be dead, then, my friend, and as for our descendants, qu'ils s'arrangent! (written in 1886).
Муссоргский, "Ночь на Лысой горе": ... as hideous a thing as we have ever heard... an orgy of ugliness and an abomination. May we never hear it again!
Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini sometimes sounds like a plague of insects in the Amazon valley, sometimes like a miniature of the Day of Judgement...
