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Even Elliott Carter expresses his admiration for the Pacifica Quartet’s mastery of his fiendishly difficult music (they play complete Carter quartet cycles in a single
If you’re ever going to have an Elliott Carter epiphany, then this might be the disc to bring it on. It’s not only spectacularly played
While he’s considered both by institutions and his colleagues to be one of America’s major living composers, Elliott Carter largely remains, at 91, a terra
Elliott Carter’s love of complexity for its own sake, combined with his august and somewhat forbidding reputation, stands in the way of a sensible appreciation
In this fifth volume, Bridge Records’ ongoing Elliott Carter series offers an extremely wide-ranging collection of nine compositions for various chamber forces, as well as
The works on this disc date from 1982 to 1996 and offer a varied overview of Elliott Carter’s astonishing (and, as of this writing, still
One of the most difficult aspects in considering the works of a composer with a complex, characteristic (some might say hermetically sealed) style like Carter’s
However fascinating it might be to juxtapose Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit and Elliott Carter’s Night Fantasies in recital (both works draw inspiration from nocturnal
Sharon Bezaly’s second volume of solo flute works (covering B and C in her monumental alphabetic survey) is less a recital than it is a
Virgin Classics’ survey devoted to pillars of the 20th century American piano sonata re-enters the catalog as a two-disc set selling for the cost of
