以我自己的观点,说俄罗斯19世纪的作品有些“粗”倒还确切,刚刚昌盛的国家总难免暴发户的心态,而且他们想表现的是传统西方优雅了几百年的文化内容,和伟大相比,柴氏也确实显得二流。但到了19世纪末20世纪,俄罗斯几位天才早已和西方的并驾,硬要说《图画展览会》是场景音乐那也是拉威尔改的,关穆索尔斯基什么事?说到《春之祭》,它可是20世纪现代Classical Music在西方上演和出片最多的作品,在这个月就有EMI新发的Simon Rattle与柏林爱乐新录的版本,两月前伦敦爱乐隆重上演新导的版本,你可以看到英国卫报长篇累牍的评论,以下就摘个片段用来说明问题:“So there’s nothing so old as a musical revolution. But even if it’s true that
Stravinsky plundered traditions both ancient and modern to create The Rite, there’s something that, finally, can’t be explained away, something you should feel in your gut when you experience the piece. A century on, the truly shocking thing about The Rite is still with us, right there at its climax. A good performance will merely pulverise you. But a great one will make you feel that it’s you – that it’s all of us – being sacrificed by Stravinsky’s spellbinding and savagely cruel music.”