[原创]第二小提琴协奏曲随想 - 月光综合艺术 - 月光钢琴学术论坛

//发一篇旧文，半年多前心血来潮写的，练练英文而已，现对人物加了注。写完后查到普罗科菲耶夫的第二小提琴协奏曲是1935年写的，也就是作曲家回国后的第一年，当时大清洗还未开始，因而我没有任何成见的听乐感受可能与作曲家的初衷有所不同。

After watched an interview of Maxim Vengerov （文格洛夫，俄国当代小提琴家）on TV, I was listening to a CD of his violin playing. He is a young and talented Russian violinist. It's one of my favorite CDs, and the music are Prokofiev's （普罗科菲耶夫，苏联作曲家） Violin Concerto No.2 and Shostakovich's （肖斯塔科维奇，苏联作曲家） Violin Concerto No.2. I felt upset and even frightened for the music. A while the music was sad and depressed, another while it strived and even fought against fate. At the end of both of the two violin concertos, the mood was all impassioned and excited, but on the whole they were wrenching. However, I felt my heart was being purred.

Meanwhile, my imagination flew far away. I remembered a sentence of Tukhachevsky （图哈切夫斯基，1935年苏联元帅，大清洗中被杀）. After Stalin （斯大林，苏联领导人） began his purge in Red Army, the marshal Tukhachevsky said to Shostakovich, the famous musician, "When I was a child, how I begged to buy a violin for me, but Dad couldn't buy one from beginning to end for continuously lack of money. Possibly I can be a professional violinist." What a tragedy! I think Tukhachevsky's being murdered is a big tragedy for Russia and human.

I wonder during the harsh time of Great Patriot War against German, how Stalin and Russian generals felt. Had Stalin ever wanted to bring Tukhachevsky and other generals who were killed by himself back to life? Had Zhukov （朱可夫，1943年苏联元帅） and Vasilievsky （华西列夫斯基，1943年苏联元帅） ever felt Tukhachevsky, Uborevich （乌伯列维奇，1935年一级集团军级将军，大清洗中被杀） and Yakir （亚基尔，1935年一级集团军级将军，大清洗中被杀） would do far better than themselves? Had Voroshilov （伏罗希洛夫，1935年苏联元帅） and Budyonny （布琼尼，1935年苏联元帅） ever regretted for their consent or silence on killing their colleagues? Had the young commanders in Red Army ever longed for blessing and protection from their killed predecessors when they desperately struggle against German aggressors? Certainly it was destined for USSR to defeat Germany at last, but was the expense destined to be more than 20,000,000 people and nearly losing everything from Moscow to Berlin?

I'm not waiting for any answer, for there is no answer. I've read Zhukov and Bagramian's （巴格拉米扬，1955年苏联元帅） memoirs, they merely said they admired or respected their dead excellent predecessors, but didn't mention a single word on how and why they died.

I can't help imagining such scenes and questions while listening to Prokofiev and Shostakovich's violin concertos, and remembering Tukhachevsky's words. My questions haven't ended yet. How did Shostakovich feel hearing Tukhachevsky's words to him? Did he forget the Marshal's last confession to him after the Marshal's death? Had he ever remembered Tukhachevsky when he was an air-raid volunteer in Leningrad, when he wrote his incomparably powerful "Leningrad" Symphony?

It seems that the possibility of being killed among musicians is far lower than among military and political leaders, both in USSR and China. So music seems more eternal than wars and political affairs. I haven't seen Shotakovich's memoir, but I've heard a lot of his music. Music can be comprehended variously by different people. However, after I've listened to some music composed in his second half of life, especially Symphony No.13, 14, Violin Concerto No.2, Cello Concerto No.1, String Quartet No.8, The Execution of Stephan Razin （拉辛，沙俄时期农民起义领袖）, I feel he understood Russia and always cherished a pure heart under huge political pressure. He knew football was far purer than politics. He wrote music as satirical as Bulgakov's （布尔加科夫，苏联作家，著有《大师和玛格丽特》等） novels.

I feel those intellectuals such as Bulgakov, Shostakovich, Pasternak （帕斯捷尔纳克，苏联作家，著有《日瓦戈医生》等）, are the real pillar and backbone of Russia. They are the soul of Russia. They were continuously sticking to eternal human standard for discriminating kindness and evilness, any slaughter and evilness couldn't deceive them. They knew that any one who had purposely killed one ignorant person was a criminal, no matter what flag he held, what excuse he claimed. They gave common people voices of true humanity in their riddle-like music, novels, and poems. Their art will be remembered forever and passed on and on, while the political thoughts, social system and some temporary brilliance of their time has faded or been thrown away.

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