@今週の洋楽オール･バイ･マイセルフ All By Myself 恋にノータッチ Never Gonna Fall In Love Again エリック･カルメンEric Carmen ラフマニノフ Rachmaninoff のメロディが甦る

音楽大好きのぶろっこりが、気ままに気になる気分のミュージックをお送りする @今週の洋楽。

音楽好きなら気になるニュース。Apple Music Classical。早く使ってみたいアプリです。

Appleは、クラシック音楽の愛好家にふさわしいリスニング体験を提供するために設計された、まったく新しい独立した音楽配信のアプリケーションであるApple Music Classicalを発表しました。Apple Music Classicalでは、Apple Musicのサブスクリプションの登録者は、世界最大のクラシック音楽のカタログから、あらゆる作品を完全に最適化された検索機能によって簡単に見つけることができ、また、没入感のある空間オーディオで最高の音質を楽しみ、多くのクラシック音楽をまったく新しい方法で体験し、エキスパートが監修したプレイリストや洞察に満ちた作曲者紹介や何千もの作品解説など、様々なコンテンツを楽しむことができます。Apple Music Classicalは本日よりApp Storeで提供され、ほぼすべてのApple Musicのサブスクリプションの登録者は追加費用なしで利用できます。Apple Music ClassicalとApple Musicの組み合わせは、長年のクラシックファンから初心者まで、すべての人に完全な音楽体験を提供します。

クラシック初心者のぶろっこりも楽しみにしています。

ところで、ポップスとして知られる楽曲の中には、クラシックをベースとしているものもたくさんありますね。このメロディー聞いたことあるけど、なんだったかな。という経験をされた方も多いと思います。でも、ポップス・クラシック両方に精通していないとなかなかすぐには思い出せないんですよね。で、ちょっとモヤモヤ。

ということで今回は、クラシックのメロディをベースにしている有名曲、エリック･カルメンEric Carmenの「オール･バイ･マイセルフ All By Myself 」「恋にノータッチ Never Gonna Fall In Love Again」をピックアップ。

どちらも、エリック・カルメンがラフマニノフの音楽を素材に作ったポップス･ナンバー。1975年発売のアルバム「サンライズ Eric Carmen」よりシングルカットされています。

ラフマニノフのピアノ協奏曲第2番ハ短調の第2楽章にインスパイアされた名曲「オール･バイ･マイセルフ All By Myself 」は大ヒットして彼の代表曲の1つとして有名です。

All By Myself　Eric Carmen　1975

When I was young
I never needed anyone
And making love was just for fun
Those days are gone

Livin’ alone
I think of all the friends I’ve known
When I dial the telephone
Nobody’s home

All by myself
Don’t wanna be
All by myself
Anymore

Hard to be sure
Sometimes I feel so insecure
And loves so distant and obscure
Remains the cure

All by myself
Don’t wanna be
All by myself
Anymore

All by myself
Don’t wanna live
All by myself
Anymore

When I was young
I never needed anyone
Making love was just for fun
Those days are gone

All by myself
Don’t wanna be
All by myself
Anymore…

日本語訳はこちらの動画でとうぞ。

こちらが、ラフマニノフのピアノ協奏曲第2番ハ短調 Op.18：第2楽章

カヴァーでリバイバルヒットしたセリーヌ･ディオン（1996年）のヴァージョン、圧倒的な歌唱でまいりましたという感じ。

アルバム「FALLING INTO YOU」1996年　より

恋にノータッチ Never Gonna Fall In Love Again

こちらは、ラフマニノフの交響曲第2番　第3楽章のメロディ。エリック・カルメンはこの美しいメロディを何度も繰り返して、印象に残るポップ・ナンバーに仕上げました。

Never Gonna Fall In Love Again　Eric Carmen　1975

No use pretending things can still be right
There’s really nothing more to say
I’ll get along without your kiss goodnight
Just close the door and walk away

Never gonna fall in love again
I don’t want to start with someone new
‘Cause I couldn’t bear to see it end
Just like me and you
No, I never want to feel the pain
Of remembering how it used to be
Never gonna fall in love again
Just like you and me

At first we thought that love was here to stay
The summer made it seem so right
But like the sun we watched it fade away
From morning into lonely night

Never gonna fall in love again
I don’t want to start with someone new
‘Cause I couldn’t bear to see it end
Just like me and you
No, I never want to feel the pain
Of remembering how it used to be
Never gonna fall in love again
Just like you and me

日本語訳はこちらの動画でとうぞ。いつもお世話になっております。

オリジナルのラフマニノフ交響曲2番第３楽章。

彼のホームページにあるインタビューです。

“All By Myself” is based on Rachmaninoff’s 2nd piano concerto. How did the song come about?
When I was writing that album, I was listening to my favorite music which was Rachmaninoff. “All By Myself” incorporated a melody from his 2nd piano concerto as the verse.
And the solo?
The solo is mine. The song started with the solo. It started four bars at a time. Eventually, over a period of two months, that entire interlude had been written. Then my quest was to put this in the middle of an actual song. Then it was a matter of trying to figure out what kind of song and how could I do it. I was listening to Rachmaninoff’s 2nd piano concerto and I heard the melody which I used for the verse.
Then I needed a chorus. I went back and listened to a song that I had written in 1973 called “Let’s Pretend” for the Raspberries. The first few notes of the chorus were…(starts singing). And I just took those notes and took it from th
That’s interesting because you also used those same notes to open the verses of “The Way We Used To Be.”
You know, you’re right. I never even thought about that one. But I didn’t do that one consciously. And anyway, I wrote the music and figured out how to incorporate this little classical interlude that I’d written into the middle. Then it was the search for a lyric and a title. And there were three different titles before it was “All By Myself.”
What were they?
I have no idea. I have notes somewhere ‘cause I’ve kept every note that I’ve ever written from the age of 12 when I started writing songs. And they’re all in boxes somewhere.
How did you feel about the edited version of “All By Myself?”
The edited version was still about 4:22 so I know the song probably had to be edited. The only problem was that there really was no place to edit because it changed keys four different times within that piano interlude. Jimmy Ienner, the producer, and I had struggled trying to figure out how we could possibly do an edit.
“Never Gonna Fall In Love Again” is based on Rachmaninoff’s 2nd symphony.
I was sitting around and listening to Rachmaninoff’s 2nd symphony. I heard that beautiful melody. The reason that I used those things was twofold. First, they happened to move me. That stuff gave me goose bumps every time I listened to it. Also, I thought that it’s a crime that there are some spectacular melodies in classical music that the general public doesn’t get exposed to. I thought this was a way for me to bring some of the classical music that I love, incorporate it into a pop song for a new decade of kids, and introduce them to those beautiful melodies that they might not otherwise hear. That was the plan behind “Never Gonna Fall In Love Again.”

エリック・カルメンにとってラフマニノフはとても大切なインスピレーションを与えてくれる宝庫のようです。ラフマニノフはうっとりしてしまうくらい美しいメロディが満載ですからね。

最後までご視聴いただきありがとうございました。

それでは、また。#332