音乐图书推荐丨《肖邦：一生和时代》

「今日荐书」《肖邦：一生和时代》这本书讲述了肖邦一生所经历的故事和他生活的时代背景，这本传记兼具启迪性和娱乐性，同时引证肖邦平生轶事，是本不可多得的传记著作。这是一本权威的、通俗易懂的传记细节肖邦的个人混乱，作者抓住了肖邦音乐的真谛。在这本书中，肖邦仍然是一个难以捉摸的人物：沉默寡言，谨慎，不露声色，只有在钢琴上才全然释放自我。本文将为大家翻译外国各大报刊的书评摘要供参考，将来还有更详细的长篇书评敬情期待。本书市面上已经有中文版，大家可自行查阅！

Fryderyk Chopin:A Life and Times

书评《肖邦：一生和时代》

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Jessica Duchen

星期日泰晤士报

"A landmark life of Chopin dispels many of the myths that surround the great composer"Despite the popularity of Chopin’s music, and his enticing image as a tragic, consumptive arch-romantic, outstanding new writing about him in English has been in short supply recently. Alan Walker’s biography of the Polish composer and pianist therefore feels like a real landmark. 

“这部记载肖邦具有划时代意义伟大一生的著作消除了有关伟大作曲家的诸多传言。”肖邦除了音乐广受欢迎，这部杰出的英文著作，因塑造出肖邦充满悲剧色彩、无比浪漫的形象的最近也一直供不应求。艾伦沃克所著的肖邦传记是一个真正的里程碑。

For the “casual” music-lover it contains peerless writing; for the scholar, scotched myths and startling discoveries; and for the musician, insights galore.The book has been 10 years in the making, and Walker leaves no stone unturned in his search for the truth about Chopin’s life. Full of vivid detail, it is a perceptive chronicle through which one seems to live the composer’s life alongside him.

对于不求甚解的音乐爱好者来说，本书包含了无与伦比的写作；对于学者来说，它包含了无懈可击的神话和惊人的发现；对于音乐家来说，它包含了丰富的洞察力。为创作这本书沃克已经酝酿了10年，他想尽办法去探索邦的生活真相。本书充满生动的细节，同时是一个有洞察力的编年史，通过阅读我们仿佛身临其境地置身于肖邦的生活中。

Stuart Isacoff

文学评论

...numerous intriguing glimpses into the personality and genius of the man, but they also leave the book sometimes seeming like an overgrown garden in need of pruning... Nevertheless, Walker’s research is a stunning achievement and he supplies many insights... The author is at his most illuminating and entertaining when he presents telling details... 

通过本书可以一窥肖邦的个性和天才，但本书有时看起来像一个需要修剪的杂草丛生的花园。然而，沃克的研究是一个惊人的成就，他提供了许多见解……沃克陈述细节时极具启迪性和娱乐性的。

Walker is on less firm ground when he speculates about matters without supplying solid evidence in support of his views. Sometimes his conclusions seem quite a stretch.

当沃克在未提供有力的证据来支持他的观点的情况下进行推测时，他的立场就不那么坚定了。有时他的结论似乎有点牵强。

Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim

纽约时报

"For a biographer, there’s a lot to untangle. Alan Walker does so brilliantly."For a biographer, there’s a lot to untangle. Alan Walker does so brilliantly in “Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times,” a magisterial portrait of a composer who fascinated and puzzled contemporaries and whose music came to define the Romantic piano... 

“对于传记作家来说，有很多问题需要解决。但艾伦·沃克做得非常出色。本书是当代人对于肖邦这位令人着迷的作曲家的权威肖像，他的音乐定义了浪漫主义钢琴音乐。

Drawing on a wealth of letters and fresh scholarship, Walker creates a polyphonic work that elegantly interweaves multiple strands. He sketches key events in the history of Poland and portrays the burgeoning society of Polish exiles in Paris in a way that lends depth to Chopin’s oft-cited patriotism.

沃克借鉴了大量的信件和最新的学术成果，沃克的著作宛如一部优雅交织的复调音乐，他描绘了波兰历史上的主要事件，并描绘了波兰流亡者在巴黎迅速扩张的社会，这给肖邦所谓的爱国主义赋予了更多的深度。

Stephen Walsh

留声机

"An authoritative, accessible biography details Chopin’s personal turmoil and captures his true musical significance"With all this, Chopin himself remains an elusive figure: taciturn, discreet, undemonstrative, only completely comfortable at the piano. 

这是一本权威的、通俗易懂的传记细节肖邦的个人混乱，作者抓住了肖邦音乐的真谛。在这本书中，肖邦仍然是一个难以捉摸的人物：沉默寡言，谨慎，不露声色，只有在钢琴上才全然释放自我。他像个精雕细琢的工匠雕刻着自己的音乐，大型音乐厅里很少选用他的作品作为音乐会曲目。（译者注：偌大的空间会丧失肖邦音乐的精致感）

The most meticulous craftsman imaginable, and a performer of such refinement that his playing could barely be heard from the back of a large concert hall, he seems almost to float through the turmoil – political and personal – of his short life. “Without the music,” Walker admits, “the hollowed-out character that remains would contain little to interest us.” In fact, this life is compelling.

在他短暂的生命中，他凌驾于政治和个人命运的动乱中。“没有音乐”，沃克承认，“肖邦剩下的空洞的角色将毫无意义。”事实上，肖邦的生活同样引人注目的。

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