Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve and caprice, that the experience of three and twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character

“Pride and Prejudice”, Jane Austin

Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I’m afraid, even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years latter, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarreling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently … Bree and Hwin lived happily to a great age in Narnia and both got married but not to one another. And there weren’t many months in which one or both of them didn’t come trotting over the pass to visit their friends at Anvard.

“The Horse and His Boy”, from The Chronicles of Narnia, Ending.

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作曲:Ludwig van Beethoven(貝多芬)
指揮:FURTWANGLER (福特萬格勒)
演出: Berliner Philharmoniker柏林愛樂樂團

錄音日期:1942.3.22-24柏林愛樂音樂廳

專輯介紹:

在樂界人們都知道『最偉大的貝九』指的是1951年演出的福特萬格勒的拜羅依特版貝多芬第九交響曲——舉世公認的最佳貝九。但福特萬格勒還有另一張『永垂不朽的貝九』：1942年3月演出的Melodiya版貝九。直至2004年4月『黑色貝九』被發掘出來前，她一直被認為是「不可能被超越」的。
儘管它確實充滿了痛苦和憤怒，儘管它在許多方面的處理非常極端，但作為一首完整的交響樂作品它是相當均衡和嚴謹的。大多數人都只注意到駭人聽聞的第一樂章和槍林彈雨般的末樂章，他們並沒有注意到1942年的這個黑色貝九具有一個相對非常平靜的第二樂章，更具有一個絕無僅有的，非常深刻的慢樂章：第三樂章在整部作品中顯得無比細膩，它極度肅穆深沉，催人淚下。
我不能完全地理解大師在當時如何有這樣的意境為貝九奉獻出這樣的深沉寧靜，畢竟我年歲太淺，僅僅懂得用憤怒和痛苦去抗衡不幸，而大師當年已經年過半百，他豐富的藝術修養和人生閱歷是我無法理解的。我僅僅想：沒有這樣一段純粹的平靜，整個貝九都將陷於瘋狂和失控。一部分人對此理解為一種「騙術」 ，作為藝術處理手段可以理解為「對比」，但我並不相信這一樂章是以「欺騙」為目的的。這不誠實的動機必將導致沒有靈魂的演繹，而這一點是我從第三樂章中從未懷疑和感覺到的。
42年版本更有一個絕無僅有的優勢：它是三個著名版本（42年柏林版，51年拜羅依特版，和54年盧塞恩版） 中唯一一個由大師率領柏林愛樂演出的，而且是一個經他多年教導，登峰造極的柏林愛樂。他一直像父親關愛兒女一般愛護每一位成員，尤其正經歷戰時的風吹雨打，柏林愛樂除了顯示出一種與大師高度的默契外，更有一種生命攸關的依賴信任。這使戰時的柏林愛樂在音樂演繹上達到難以想像的高度張力。大師的指揮手法一直令眾多其他樂團聞風色變，因為它非常難於領悟，甚至出現過其他樂團成員把他的指揮手勢誤會成「膽怯的顫抖」。如果一定要雞蛋裏挑骨頭的話，42年版本的男中音相對蒼白乏力，但你可以輕而易舉地分辨出他表現差強人意的緣故是因為「恐懼」。他的音色和技巧其實極好，是所有版本中最好的一個，但顯然他對台下的納粹黨徒充滿恐懼，他的聲音顯示出發自內心的矛盾。

附：黑色貝九—http://lib.verycd.com/2005/05/12/0000050222.html

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Shallow Hal is a 2001 romantic comedy film starring Gwyneth Paltrow as Rosemary Shanahan, Jack Black as Hal Larsen and Jason Alexander as Mauricio.

Co-starring in the film are Rene Kirby, Joe Viterelli, and Brooke Burns. In addition, motivational speaker Tony Robbins has a small role as himself.

Jack Black’s ex-girlfriend, Laura Kightlinger, and Tenacious D bandmate, Kyle Gass, have supporting roles, with Molly Shannon and Bruce McGill in cameo roles.

It was directed by Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly (director of There’s Something About Mary).

In an interview with The Guardian on 27 January 2006, Paltrow admitted that Shallow Hal was in the category of “shite” films that she made only for money.

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Between Dr. Zhivago (World) and Shallow Hal (Pearl), the choice is clear.