Twice, I have heard Ukrainians perform Verdi’s Requiem(安魂曲，为逝者而作的宗教音乐). Once in Lviv, last Maundy Thursday(濯足节，基督教圣周中的星期四), and once last month, under the great dome of St Paul’s Cathedral in London. In St Paul’s, performed by the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra with the Philharmonia Chorus, the great Dies irae – “day of anger” – unfurled(展开，铺开，展现) in an operatic gale(歌剧般的狂风，比喻强烈的气势) of fury, reverberating(回响，回荡) so powerfully around Wren’s lofty spaces(雷恩设计的崇高空间，指圣保罗大教堂) that the music felt like thunder echoing between mountain peaks.
我曾两次聆听乌克兰人演奏威尔第的《安魂曲》。一次是在利沃夫，去年的濯足节；另一次是上个月，在伦敦圣保罗大教堂的穹顶之下。在圣保罗，乌克兰自由管弦乐团与爱乐合唱团共同演出，那宏大的《末日经》——“愤怒之日”——如歌剧般的愤怒风暴般展开，在雷恩设计的崇高空间中强烈回荡，音乐听上去就像雷声在山峰间回响。
In Lviv, where it was performed by a Ukrainian chorus and orchestra, the evening began with a call to remember the war dead. Lviv’s lay a mile up the road: 153 graves when I first visited in autumn 2022, and by this year more than 1,000. Ranks and ranks of soldiers killed in their 20s, 30s and 40s, each grave planted with flowers and plants, flags flying above. On that occasion, Dies irae – in the more sober(冷静的，庄重的，朴素的) acoustic of the Lviv Philharmonic Hall – seemed to contain the furious ache(狂怒的疼痛，指悲愤交加) of grief. Certainly I have never heard a more wrathful(愤怒的，暴怒的) day of anger.
在利沃夫，这场演出由乌克兰合唱团和管弦乐团完成，当晚以悼念战争死难者的呼吁开场。利沃夫的阵亡将士墓就在一英里外的路上：2022年秋天我第一次到访时，那里有153座坟墓，而到今年已超过1000座。一排排牺牲的士兵，年龄多在20、30、40多岁，每座坟墓都种着花草，旗帜在上方飘扬。在那次演出中，《末日经》——在利沃夫爱乐大厅更为庄重的音响效果中——似乎承载着悲愤的剧痛。当然，我从未听过比这更愤怒的“愤怒之日”。
I have thought a lot about Ukrainian rage. This was a rage against Russia and Russians, and it burned with a fury that was at times hard to step close to. Ukrainians, too, have sometimes been taken aback(感到惊讶，震惊) by the depth of their anger. Oleksandr Mykhed, an author now in the armed forces, has written a wartime alphabet book for children in which L stands for lyut(乌克兰语，意为“愤怒”), rage. He defines it as a “special mixture of feelings when the desire to defend what is yours, hatred for the enemy and enduring love for your own people are mixed in equal proportions”.(他将其定义为一种特殊的情感混合体，当保卫自己之物的愿望、对敌人的仇恨和对同胞的持久之爱以同等比例混合时。) This complicated, extreme cocktail(鸡尾酒，引申为混合物) of feelings is not a peacetime emotion, nor an easy one.
我对乌克兰人的愤怒思考了很多。这是一种针对俄罗斯及其人民的愤怒，它燃烧的烈焰有时令人难以靠近。乌克兰人自己也时常被自己愤怒的深度所震惊。作家奥列克桑德·米赫德如今在军队服役，他写了一本战时儿童字母书，其中字母L代表“lyut”，即愤怒。他将其定义为“一种特殊的情感混合体，当保卫属于自己之物的愿望、对敌人的仇恨以及对同胞的持久之爱以同等比例混合在一起时”。这种复杂而极端的情感鸡尾酒不是和平时期的情绪，也不是一种轻松的情绪。