Elliott Carter

This piece is based on the trombone solo in Carter's Double Trio piece from 2011.

Four Lauds, a collection of solo violin pieces written at different times, intend to express gratitude to some of the musiciians whose friendship has meant so much to me: Aaron Copland, Roger Sessions...

The term 'late work' literally is true for hardly any other piece of music than this piece. For it was composed by Carter for a concert marking his 103rd birthday which took place in his native city o...

Soprano solo.

Composer's note:Fascination with Italian music, literature, and visual arts has grown ever since my mother took me to Rome in around 1924. This song-cycle is a small gesture of gratitude to Italian cu...

Inspired by 1930s harpist Carlos Salzedo, a member of the small group of modernists who surrounded Varese and Ives. Salzedo's unusual developments in harp technique are explored throughout Mosaic, a w...

90 + für Klavier ist auf neunzig kurzen, akzentuierten Noten aufgebaut, die in einem langsamen gleichmässigen Takt gespielt werden. Im Rahmen dieser Noten verändert sich der Charakter des Stücks laufe...

These 'Two Diversions' for piano deal with a growing contrast between simultaneous musical ideas. The first 'Diversion' presents a line of paired notes, musical intervals, that maintain a single speed...

'Retrouvailles' for piano was written to celebrate the 75th birthday of my friend, Pierre Boulez, Mach 26, 2000. The score retruns to the mottoBb, (o), U (=t), L (=a), E, (z)used in my 'Esprit Rude/Es...

It was the composer's new (1982) revision of this modern classic, which in its earlier version has become a standard of the contempoary repertoire, and has been recorded by Paul Jacobs, Charles Rosen,...

In 2012, the American composer Elliott Carter died at the ripe old age of almost 104. To the last, he devoted his time to composing. Instances is the last orchestral work written by the two-time winne...

The Pocahontas Ballet Suite is one of Carter's early works, and reflects the neo-classical influences of studies with Walter Piston and Gustav Holst at Harvard (1926-32) and with Stravinskian disciple...