鸽了一个月的古典音乐安利终于又更新啦！（拜托各位留言的话带上ID吧呜呜呜。
1. 巴赫「C大调前奏曲 BWV 849」
Prelude in C Major, BWV 846
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今天推荐的第一首作品是巴赫的「第一套平均律钢琴曲集第一首前奏曲」。
提到这首曲子，不妨先聊聊「平均律」。话说第一次听到「平均律」还是初中听的汪苏泷的歌，《巴赫旧约》里面的「勃兰登堡协奏曲 克膝宫的大键琴 巴赫为了生计写着平均律 魏玛宫廷的月光是咏叹的前奏曲」。当时听的时候就在想，这个平均律是不是什么求平均的数学定律啊（大雾），当然不是啦——事实上，平均律是一种音乐的定律方法。简单地说，就是将一个八度平均分成十二等份，每个等分称为半音，这样能使音乐的转调变得非常简单和方便。巴赫被誉为”欧洲近代音乐之父”，一个很重要的贡献就是创作了十二平均律并发扬光大。
再说回这首作品，第一次听到时就感觉每个音符的段落感很强，但又像水一样一样缓缓流动。段落和流畅本来应该是两种矛盾的形容词，但用来形容这首作品好像都很恰当。这首作品的旋律非常简单，但是和弦的变化就像色彩的变幻，带给我美丽和隽永之感。或许这就是古典音乐为何成为经典的原因吧。
2. 贝多芬「第七号钢琴三重奏《大公》第一乐章 Op.97」
Beethoven piano trio No.7 “Archduke”, Op.97
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这部作品是贝多芬呈献给奥地利鲁道夫大公的，因此而称为《大公三重奏》。鲁道夫大公是皇族的儿子，6岁开始拜贝多芬为师。现实生活中，他帮助不擅长处世交际的贝多芬，他们的关系亦师亦友。贝多芬的这部作品，就是为了感谢在他坎坷的人生旅途中，多次伸出援手的这位朋友。
村上春树的小说《海边的卡夫卡》中，平凡的货车司机星野在路上巧遇了搭便车的中田先生。在这趟不在计划的旅程中，他们来到咖啡厅，听到了平日里根本不会接触的古典音乐。星野先生被音乐声吸引，深首感动，甚至开始思考「自己生命为何？」「人生的意义是什么？」等人生命题。当时咖啡厅里播放的正是《大公》。离去时，星野问了店主曲名，了解到了这首曲子的背景，心想：啊，像”大公”这样的，在英雄伟人或特殊事业旁边因缘际会出力帮忙的人也很重要啊！因而，星野最终决心扮演看上去有点”奇特”的中田先生的帮手，协助他完成那神秘的任务。
在这部作品里，小提琴、钢琴、大提琴三件乐器交相辉映，产生了协奏风采。听着这首作品的旋律，有一种宽容和安心的感受——这是一首送给友人的赞美诗。
3. 巴赫-布索尼「夏康舞曲」
Bach-Buson：Chaconne in d Minor, BWV.1004
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“想象你心爱的人将死，你会说的每一件事，甚至包括无法用言语表达的事，想象你萃取了所有话语、感觉与情绪，浓缩成15分钟的精华，想象你找到一种方式，建构出我们现存的这充满爱与伤悲的整个宇宙，并用音乐的形态来呈现，动笔写在谱纸上，把它送给全世界，而这就是巴赫在做的事。”
布索尼的「夏康舞曲」（或「恰空舞曲」）改编自巴赫的小提琴独奏曲《d小调”恰空”》。在该作品的众多改编曲中，布索尼的改编曲是比较著名的一首。布索尼将演奏该作品的乐器由小提琴改为钢琴。
这首「夏康舞曲」是巴赫为他过世的首任妻子写下。每一个音符似乎都是对心爱的人诉说着的言语。
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1. Bach — Prelude in C Major, BWV 846
Prelude in C Major, BWV 846
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The first piece today is the opening prelude from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I.
The name “Well-Tempered Clavier” (平均律 in Chinese) deserves a brief detour. The first time I encountered the term was in a Chinese pop song I heard in middle school — a lyric that mentioned Bach writing the Well-Tempered Clavier to make ends meet. I remember wondering: is this some kind of mathematical averaging theorem? Not quite. Equal temperament is a tuning system that divides an octave into twelve equal semitones, making it easy to modulate between any keys. Bach is called “the father of modern Western music” in part because of how he championed and systematized this system.
Back to the piece itself: when I first heard it, what struck me was the paradox of structure and flow. Each note feels like a distinct step, yet the music moves like water — unhurried, continuous. The melody is deceptively simple; what shifts constantly are the harmonies underneath, cycling through colors like light through a prism. This might be why classical music endures: beauty that reveals itself more with each listen.
2. Beethoven — Piano Trio No.7 “Archduke,” Op.97
Beethoven: Piano Trio No.7 “Archduke,” Op.97
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This trio is dedicated to Archduke Rudolf of Austria — hence the nickname. Rudolf, a prince of the imperial family, began studying piano with Beethoven at age six. In real life, he served as a generous patron and genuine friend to Beethoven, who was notoriously bad at navigating social and financial affairs. The Archduke Trio was Beethoven's expression of gratitude for a friendship that sustained him through years of difficulty.
There's a wonderful scene in Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore in which an ordinary truck driver named Hoshino gives an old man named Nakata a ride he didn't plan on. Along the way they stop at a café and happen to hear classical music — something Hoshino has never paid attention to before. The Archduke is playing, and something in it moves Hoshino deeply enough that he starts asking genuine questions about his own life: Why am I here? What am I actually for? As he's leaving, he asks the café owner what the piece was. Learning the backstory — that Beethoven wrote it for the Archduke, who stood by him when no one else did — Hoshino thinks: it's the people who quietly support the great ones that matter too. And with that realization, he decides to become Nakata's unlikely companion.
In the trio, violin, piano, and cello weave around each other in something that feels less like competition than conversation. The feeling the music gives me is warmth and reassurance — a hymn of gratitude written for a friend.
3. Bach-Busoni — Chaconne in D minor, BWV 1004
Bach-Busoni: Chaconne in D Minor, BWV 1004
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“Imagine your beloved is dying, and you want to say everything — even the things that can't be put into words. Imagine distilling every feeling, every conversation, every fragment of grief and love into fifteen minutes of music. Imagine finding a way to contain the whole universe of love and sorrow we live in, writing it down on paper, and giving it to the world. That is what Bach did.”
Busoni's Chaconne is an arrangement for piano of Bach's solo violin Chaconne in D minor. Among the many transcriptions of this work, Busoni's is among the most celebrated.
Bach wrote the original Chaconne for his first wife, who died while he was away traveling. He returned home to find her already buried. Every note in this piece feels like something he needed to say to her — and couldn't.