①hello ladies and gentlemen. once upon a time I heard that Bach's Italian concerto was Bach for people who do not like Bach.〔once upon a time「昔」〕 〔I heard that ~「〜と聞いた」〕 〔for people who ~：関係代名詞〕②when I heard this I thought it was a most clever formulation and in general a most useful one, not least in music. 〔 I thought ~「〜と思った」〕〔a most ~：強調「非常に〜」〕 〔not least ~「とりわけ〜」〕③Let me add to that today another proposition of a related, in some ways opposite, concept: 〔let me ~「〜させてください」〕 〔add to ~「〜に付け加える」〕④Bach for people who *really* like Bach.〔強調 really〕⑤I'd like to play for you today a beautiful etude by Charles-Valentin Alkan 〔I'd like to ~：丁寧な意志〕〔play for you「あなたのために演奏する」〕⑥and I would say that it's "Alkan for people who like Alkan". 〔I would say ~「〜と言えるだろう」〕⑦now, the thing about Alkan's music is that it very often does not express anything.〔the thing about ~ is that ~「〜の特徴は…だ」〕⑧It is about the power of inner logic and the beauty of construction. 〔be about ~「〜に関わる」〕⑨I would say that in this etude, he is the opposite of liszt. 〔the opposite of ~「〜の対極」〕⑩let's think about form and function.〔let's ~：提案〕⑪with liszt's etudes we could say that function comes first. 〔we could say ~「〜と言える」〕⑫he comes up with a dramatic structure and finds forms that fill the structure convincingly. 〔come up with ~「〜を思いつく」〕 〔that fill ~：関係代名詞〕⑬With Alkan we have here a material, with a certain texture, 〔with ~「〜において」〕⑭and instead of putting this material in places where it helps us tell a story, 〔instead of ~ing「〜する代わりに」〕〔where ~：関係副詞 〕⑮this piece is about the intrinsically natural ways that this material develops itself〔be about ~「〜についてである」〕 〔develop itself「自ら展開する」〕 ⑯and presents itself in different lights. 〔present itself「現れる」〕⑰Let me mention two of them.〔mention ~「言及する」〕⑱the first is turning it upside down to create the conflict in this piece, a kind of black and white duality. 〔turn ~ upside down「逆さにする」〕 〔duality「二重性」〕⑲Liszt might have taken one and the same tune – that is, the same notes – and put them into a different form in order to create this kind of contrast.〔might have ~：仮定過去 〕〔one and the same「まったく同じ」〕⑳but here the form stays the same and the notes that are turned upside down. 〔stay the same：「同じままである」〕㉑the second example I'd like to bring to your attention is 〔bring to your attention「注意を向ける」〕㉒the way that by artificially accelerating this material, a special, very interesting sonority is created 〔by ~ing「〜することによって」〕 〔is created：受動〕㉓which sings for a very long time in the piano, 〔which ~：関係代名詞 〕〔sing：比喩的に「響く」〕㉔with which this piece ends〔end with ~「〜で終わる」〕 出典元（音声）Alkan : Etude en sol majeur Op. 35 #3 | Musique, ma patrie !
