[音乐寻根] 欧洲早期音乐乐队： L'Arpeggiatta

人活到一定时候会寻根， 寻找祖宗走过脚印；想知道祖先来自何方？

而音乐家， 他们也会寻根， 寻找音乐祖宗，知名的和不知名的，伟大的和普通的， 他们当时的生活又是怎样的？ 那个年代的声响是怎样的， 他们的歌舞， 他们的情怀...

自己的根在中国， 这不影响我喜欢欧洲古典音乐， 也很好奇他们的早期音乐，自己喜欢欧洲早期音乐也是最近两年的事. 早期音乐， 特别是早期的乡间音乐听上去有一种质朴浓烈的生活气息，而且充满诗意， 笑声，  老百姓喜怒哀乐尽在其中，那种热闹中的安静，是我们这个时代少有的，没有雕凿的人声是那么原生味， 现在科技太发达， 音乐无暇疵，把耳朵耳腔惯坏了，听几百年前的音乐觉得不仅听觉上有一种久违感，再现几百年前欧洲乡间艺人 那种简朴的演出形式，很温暖亲切， 其实我也不懂他们具体在唱什么，感动我的是他们的虔诚，质朴的感恩和温暖的旋律。

早期音乐乐队的乐器多是那个年代流行的， 现在都不常见了，很多都没听说过， 所以音乐听上去很特别。

复古创新其实也不矛盾，古典是人们珍藏的精华。 就像现在人们都喜欢绿色食品，那种不长虫的又大又美的蔬菜水果看上去到有点可怕， 不敢动口，在法国人们发现有很多种类的蔬菜也正面临灭绝了， 有个村子的菜农们去大力挽救，去再种植，还让村里的叫大人小孩去品尝； 动物也很多面临灭绝； 早期音乐也一样，不去挖掘演出，也会无声无息的消失，好在有越来越多的音乐家去做这方面的事，也有越来越多的听众蛮偏爱早期音乐了， 很受欢迎。

L'Arpeggiatta是一个以挖掘和演出欧洲早期音乐的小型音乐乐队， 由Christina Pluhar 2000年创立组建，有关L'Arpeggiatta乐队的介绍也不多， 找到一篇BBC Review 作参考。他们出的CD很受欢迎。

欧洲有几个早期音乐乐队特别棒， 尤其以法国，意大利的，究竟那里曾是欧洲音乐最热闹的地方， 至今依然是。如法国的Vincent Dumestre 的《Le Poeme Harmonique》，Jean-Christophe Spinosi领队的《Ensemble Matheus》，Christophe Rousset 的《Les Talens Lyriques》，当然欧洲的早期音乐乐队很多，但法国这几个是我喜欢的， 他们带来的不止是音乐，那个年代的诗意， 笑声幽默都让他们找到了。 

心连根，那我们中国的古乐又是怎样的呢？几千年文明应该有很多古乐吧， 很希望那天能听很地道的中国古乐， 音乐访祖寻根吧。

L'Arpeggiata All'Improvviso

Toe-tapping continuo on baroque guitars, harp, lute and theorbo, some sparkling...

All'Improvviso...ok, there'll be improvisation then. But it also means suddenly in Italian, and there's an immediacy and freshness here that grabs you right from the first few bars. If you haven't met baroque harpist Christina Pluhar and her group l'Arpeggiata, then it's time you did. They're from the French Alpha labels stable of unusually gifted musicians who work in that grey area where art music meets folk, and here they're exploring the simple repeated basslines and harmonies that have formed the basis for all kinds of music, in every continent, from the earliest dance music, through folk, classical, romantic and contemporary art music, jazz, and of course pop and rock. 'Chaconnes, Bergamascas and a little bit of madness' is the CD's subtitle; the chaconne which seems to have come from 16th century Peru to the height of baroque sophistication; the bergamasca from Bergamo in 16th century Italy (still found in traditional Italian music), and the madness folia a crazy dance style that spread from Portugal through Spain and Italy, and into the music of the royal courts of Europe.

L'Arpeggiata's way of improvising on these ground basses and repeated harmonic patterns is deliciously entertaining. Sources range from 17th century chaconnes to the first track - a new song by Lucilla Galeazzi, and from the moment she starts singing about the beautiful house she wants, filled with tears and laughter, music and poetry, I was hooked. Marco Beasley's voice is just as naturally communicative, and Gianluigi Trovesi's pungent clarinet solos almost swing us into jazz. Add to that the toe-tapping continuo on baroque guitars, harp, lute and theorbo, some sparkling cornet-playing and lively strings, and you have crossover of the highest quality, from performers who recognise no boundaries in 400 years of music. Magical results, from the meanest ingredients, and it ought to be available on prescription to the clinically depressed.

(BBC review http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/fj3n)