1. 巴赫「G弦上的咏叹调 BWV 1068」
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: “Air”
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钢琴版，郎朗演奏
这首应该是大家都耳熟能详的一部作品了，在很多影视作品中都有出现过。
《G弦上的咏叹调 （Air On The G String）》出自巴赫的《第三号管弦乐组曲》（Orchestral Suites No's 1 and 3 #09] Ouverture No. 3 BWV 1068 in D major）第二乐章。这首作品的原曲是由巴赫在1717-1723年间写成，19世纪晚期，德国小提琴家威廉密（August Wilhelmj）将此曲改编为小提琴和钢琴的作品，他把原曲的D大调变调到C大调并将旋律降低一个八度，由于主奏小提琴必须在G弦（小提琴四根弦中最粗的一根弦）上演奏全部旋律，故此得名。
这部作品给我带来的最多的感觉就是平静。旋律中能听出纯净的诗意，甚至能感受到圣洁的光辉，可能这就是古典音乐的魅力吧。
2. 肖邦 「G小调第一号叙事曲 Op.23」
Chopin: Ballade No.1 in G minor, Op.23
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2020.7.09 更新：今天看完了《四月是你的谎言》，没想到公生在决赛又弹起了这首作品，再听时又有了不一样的感觉。
以下是原本的评价~
这首作品的开头的旋律有一种幽静隐秘的感觉，后面旋律急转直上、直接炸裂。记得第一次听的时候睡午觉，听着前面慢慢进入梦乡然后被后面震醒……后来了解了一下这首歌的创作背景，大致明白了为什么这部作品的旋律没有那么简单，以及为何叫做「叙事曲」。
这部作品诞生在华沙革命失败的年代，肖邦创作这首叙事曲的时候，正流亡在法国。一般认为，肖邦是在密茨凯维茨的叙事诗《康拉德．华伦洛德》的影响下写作的。这部史诗大致讲述的是十四世纪时，立陶宛被日尔曼骑士兵团所灭，立陶宛后裔华伦洛德被敌俘虏，并被抚养成人，受到敌方重用。立陶宛老人乔装成唱诗的歌手深入虎穴，得以接近华伦洛德。通过反复启发教育，终于使华伦洛德醒悟，立志牺牲个人为祖国效力，最后终于使立陶宛人得胜，而华伦洛德却被敌人处死。
聆听这首作品，就像是立陶宛的老人在耳边娓娓道来，而在面前徐徐展开的，是一幅宏伟的史诗画卷。画卷中的跌宕起伏，都在旋律中。
3. 莫扎特 「E小调小提琴奏鸣曲第二乐章 K.304」
Mozart：Sonata For Piano And Violin In E Minor, K.304:2. Tempo di minuetto
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这是一部很深情的作品，先了解一下这部作品的背景。
“对于莫扎特来说，1778年无疑是他一生中最痛苦的一年。在宫廷中谋取职位的梦想一次次破灭，曾经人见人爱的”神童”现在处处碰壁，即使一向乐观的莫扎特也为此感到苦恼。此时母亲的逝世好比是晴天中的一道霹雳，让莫扎特感到无尽的孤独和哀伤，正是在这样的创作背景下，他写出了《e小调小提琴奏鸣曲》这样感人至深、催人泪下的作品。”
虽然大家都说这是一部悲伤的作品，但对于我来说，感受到的更多的是美好和安静，小提琴的旋律非常优雅，仿佛置身于拉上窗帘的空荡荡的房间。
1. Bach — Air on the G String, BWV 1068
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: “Air”
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Piano version, performed by Lang Lang
One of the most recognized pieces in the classical repertoire — you've almost certainly heard it in a film or TV show at some point.
The Air on the G String is the second movement of Bach's Orchestral Suite No.3 in D major, originally composed between 1717 and 1723. The version we know today is an arrangement by the German violinist August Wilhelmj, made in the late 19th century. He transposed the piece from D major to C major and lowered the melody by an octave — which meant the solo violin could play the entire melody on its lowest string (the G string), giving the arrangement its name.
The feeling this piece evokes in me, above all else, is stillness. There's a pure, poetic quality to the melody — almost something sacred in it. Perhaps that's what classical music at its best can do.
2. Chopin — Ballade No.1 in G minor, Op.23
Chopin: Ballade No.1 in G minor, Op.23
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Update, 2020.07.09: Just finished watching Your Lie in April. Unexpected to hear Kousei play this again in the final competition — it hit differently this time.
Original thoughts below~
The opening melody is hushed and secretive. Then, without warning, the music erupts. The first time I heard it, I was napping — drifted off during the quiet opening, jolted awake by the explosion that followed.
Learning the backstory made everything click. The piece was written while Chopin was in exile in France, following the failed Warsaw Uprising. It's widely believed to have been inspired by Adam Mickiewicz's epic poem Konrad Wallenrod — the story of a Lithuanian man captured by Germanic crusaders as a child, raised in enemy hands, then secretly awoken to his homeland by an old Lithuanian man in disguise, eventually sacrificing himself to free his people.
Listening to this ballade is like hearing that old man tell the story at your side, while an enormous epic unfolds slowly before you. Every dramatic turn in the narrative has its counterpart in the music.
3. Mozart — Violin Sonata in E minor, K.304: II. Tempo di minuetto
Mozart: Sonata For Piano And Violin In E Minor, K.304: II. Tempo di minuetto
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A deeply tender piece — and knowing its background helps explain why.
1778 was the most painful year of Mozart's life. His efforts to secure a court position kept failing; the beloved child prodigy was now being turned away everywhere. Even Mozart's characteristic optimism was worn down. Then his mother died suddenly — and in that grief and isolation, he wrote the Violin Sonata in E minor.
Everyone calls this a sad piece, and I understand why. But what I feel listening to it is less sadness and more a kind of beauty and quiet — the violin melody is so elegant, like sitting alone in a room with the curtains drawn, the world going still.