Elliott Carter

Harvest Home, on a text of the Jacobean poet, Robert Herrick, was composed for the Lehman Engle Madrigal Singers in 1937. This is a companion piece to Robert Herrick's To Music that was also performed...

Eliott Carter's The Harmony Of Morning for SSAA choir with Piano accompaniment. This work features words by Mark van Doren.

The Harmony of Morning', composed for women's chorus with chamber orchestra, takes as its text a poem by Mark van Doren titled Another Music.

For flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord.

For Mezzo-Soprano, Bass/Baritone, Guitar and 10 instrumentalists.

The composer states: The title of this piece was suggested by Arnold Schoenberg's short story 'To the Wharfs' in which he describes the mounting anxiety of the members of a French fishing village as t...

1997 edition. This work was commissioned by Sylvia Marlowe and the Harpsichord Quartet of New York.

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,...

Composer's note: Rgmarole was composed for the cellist Fred Sherry and the bass clarinetist Virgil Blackwell for my 103rd birthday concert on December 8, 2011 in New York City. - Elliott Carter - 

HBHH wurde anlässlich des 68. Geburtstages des großartigen Oboisten, Komponisten und sehr geschätzen Freundes komponiert. In deutscher Musikschreibweise wird das internationale B als H und das Bb als...

Written in 1937 for a performance of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.

For two trumpets, French horn and two trombones.

Elliott Carter's Sonata For Cello And Piano is a work dating from 1948. Available here is the 1992 edition.

HPS 1121

For flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon.

Symphony no. 1 (1942) reflects the neo-classical influences of studies with Walter Piston and Gustav Holst at Harvard (1926-32) and with Stravinskian disciple and master pedagogue Nadia Boulanger in P...