今夜的愛丁堡很古典...

 

今天從一早就有工作人員為了王子街封街做準備

靠花園的那邊早早就架起超大音響

從中午開始就開始播送古典音樂培養今晚的氣氛

所以一整天走在王子街上逛街都忽然感覺有氣質了起來

走在熱鬧摩登的王子街商店還一邊聽到古典音樂真是一種奇妙的結合啊~

 

 

RBS的煙火音樂會通常在每年八月的最後一個星期天舉行

(Royal Bank of Scotland firework concert 2008)

有點像是整個Edinburgh international藝術節的最高潮

也是夏天的完美句點

這個在王子街花園的煙火音樂會 雖然有賣門票

但是大多數人都寧願在王子街找個好位子 跟群眾一起享用免費站票

因為從王子街上才能看到城堡的全景 而且街上也聽得到音樂轉播!

 

音樂會是等天黑了九點才正式開始

不過大約八點就已經開始擠滿人

順便告訴大家.... 視野最佳的位置之一就是在施華洛水晶門口喔!

音樂會還沒開始就已經擠滿人啦! 這還只是一邊而已

另一邊也是滿滿滿....不過....離跨年晚會的寸步難行還是有差!

煙火瀑布....

*三年前我是在我舊公寓的門口看 因為我很不喜歡跟群眾擠來擠去

所以這次也是我第一次從正面看到"煙火與城堡"的全景喔!

順便試拍新相機的煙火功能 :P

看吧 另一邊也是滿滿滿....

還好我這次乖乖提早到佔到個好位子!

整個音樂會剛好一小時!

如果有計畫夏天來愛丁堡的....可以考慮明年的八月最後一周聽完這音樂會再走喔!:)

我覺得他今年的選曲比我上次聽的好多多

今年選的曲目原本是節慶用舞曲 真的很適合配煙火 感覺高潮迭起 看的很爽!

(其實在現場不覺得後面PUB那群酒醉年輕人有那麼吵 因為很專心看煙火聽音樂...不過重新看錄影畫面就一直會被環境雜音干擾.... :( )

 

 

總之 還是請大家欣賞一下片段吧!

 

 

按這邊看開幕序曲:

曲目介紹:

Dvořák: Slavonic Dances (excerpts)
Brahms: Hungarian Dances (excerpts)

The music being performed alongside the fireworks on this occasion is two sets of six dances - Hungarian Dances by Brahms and Slavonic Dances by Dvořák. Brahms actually produced twenty-one in total and Dvořák sixteen. Both composers originally wrote their dances for piano duet.

The title Bohemian Rhapsodies should not be taken too seriously. Bohemia, a bit like Silesia or Galicia, is one of those places that you’ve vaguely heard of but couldn’t begin to identify on a map. That’s partly because, these days, they don’t appear on maps as distinct countries although, they have done in the past. They straddle borders – in the case of Bohemia, between south-eastern Germany and north-west Czech Republic, a larger area than the province of the Czech republic which also bears the name. (Silesia is a bit further east and Galicia today straddles the border between Poland and Ukraine). In any case, they’re nowhere near Hungary.

That kind of shifting frontier is exactly what underpins this year’s Edinburgh Festival programme of artist without frontiers, examining the edges of Europe, both inside its borders and outside. The implication is that those boundaries, however fixed they look now, can easily change Just ask the Bohemians – or, come to that, the Georgians.

But however geo-politically unstable they may be, they often live on culturally. Much of Dvořák’s music is based on folk melodies and dance tunes from his native Bohemia, part of a renewed interest in ethnic culture during the 19th century when much of Europe was dominated by the vast imperial spread of the Hapsburgs. Chopin in Poland, Lizst in Hungary, are part of the same story. Scotland couldn’t manage a world-beating composer though Hamish MacCunn’s much loved overture from 1877, “The Land of the Mountain and the Flood” comes close. But writers such as Walter Scott created a national literature so potent that composers all over Europe borrowed his stories.

Dvořák did not confine himself to Bohemia; his Slavonic dances draw on dance tunes from Slovakia, Poland and Serbia as well They are warm, spontaneous, colourful pieces with a broad range of moods and atmosphere. They make for highly approachable music and as such made a significant contribution to Dvořák’s subsequent fame and fortune.

Similarly, the Brahms Hungarian dances are exuberant and full of life, with nothing of the Romantic turmoil of Brahms’s larger orchestral works. Brahms fell in love with gypsy music after being introduced to it by fellow composer Remenyi. He improvised piano accompaniments when they went on tour together and the intoxicating czardas rhythms held a life-long fascination for him, leading to the Hungarian Dances which he composed over a period of 18 years.

It was in fact Brahms who suggested to his publisher that he might like to commission the younger Dvořák to write a Slavonic counterpart to his Hungarian dances, so Dvořák took them as his model and the result was an overnight success, with the two composers becoming firm friends. Brahms himself wrote scintillating orchestral arrangements of two of Dvorak’s and there have been many more. The most famous, No 5, has been used for everything from Lemony Snicket, Tom Clancy and Charlie Chaplin films, to a video game, the Sims, a rock instrumental, cartoons and Korean theatre.