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| |  | Music of Elliott Carter - Vol 5Nine Compositions 1994-2002
2004 Grammy Nominee: Best Chamber Performance (Oboe Quartet) Volume Five of Bridge’s ongoing Elliott Carter series contains five premiere recordings, including Carter’s bracing Oboe Quartet of 2001. Performed by many of the leading Carter advocates of our time, this recording is a must for those interested in keeping up with the undimmed imagination and constant creative impulse of this American master, now well into his tenth decade. Also featured on this CD is a new recording of Carter’s song cycle Of Challenge and of Love, performed by the brilliant young American soprano Tony Arnold, the recent first prize winner of the Gaudeamus International competition for interpreters of contemporary music. Rounding out this CD are a series of instrumental miniatures played by dedicatees Virgil Blackwell, Charles Neidich, Ayako Oshima and Fred Sherry. In addition, the pianist Charles Rosen adds on to his earlier (almost) "Complete Piano Music of Carter" CD (BRIDGE 9090) with the Two Diversions, and Retrouvailles. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Oppens Plays CarterElliott Carter at 100: The Complete Piano Music
Cedille Records celebrates composer Elliott Carter's 100th birthday (December 11) with Oppens Plays Carter, the only complete CD survey of Carter's solo piano works, including two world premieres, performed by one of his leading interpreters - American pianist Ursula Oppens. The disc brings together the composer whom Aaron Copland called "one of America's most distinguished creative artists in any field" with a pianist "known particularly for the intelligence, technical skill and warmth she brings to...contemporary music." (Grove Music) The disc features Carter's pivotal Piano Sonata (1945-46), the breakthrough work in which Carter found his voice and projected the scope of his talent, and his transcendental Night Fantasies (1980), written for a group of four pianists including Ms. Oppens, who gave the premiere. Seven shorter pieces written between 1994 and 2007 complete the disc, which concludes with the world premiere recording of Carter's virtuosic Catenaires (2006), a harmonically compelling, fiendishly difficult, toccata-like succession of rapid-fire 16th notes. Oppens Plays Carter is the perfect tribute to the "Dean" of American composers by the pianist most closely associated with his music. “…Ursula Oppens'… account of the Sonata, in which Carter said his farewells to the optimism of American neo-classicism, is spellbindingly authoritative, and she is also assured in Night Fantasies, whose dark, glinting parade of images makes it Carter's equivalent of Kreisleriana. ...technically she is immaculate and her complete understanding of Carter's impacted language and its very particular demands is second to none...” BBC Music Magazine, February 2009 **** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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