New Music Concerts Ensemble - Elliott Carter: 100th Anniversary Release - Mosaic, Dialogues, Enchanted Preludes, Scrivo In Vento (CD + DVD)
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Music CD Cover Artist: New Music Concerts Ensemble Composer: Carter Conductor: Aitken Edition: Music CD Audio: English (Unknown) Format: Deluxe Edition CD Release Date: 2008-11-18 Music Label: Naxos American |
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Free Music Notes for Elliott Carter: 100th Anniversary Release - Mosaic, Dialogues, Enchanted Preludes, Scrivo In Vento (CD + DVD) Album
Free Music Review: Elliot Carter is celebrating his 100th birthday still actively composing. Naxos has released this CD with companion DVD as part
Hit: 5 Stars
Elliot Carter is celebrating his 100th birthday still actively composing. Naxos has released this CD with companion DVD as part of the celebration. As usual with Naxos the extensive giving a background of the importance of Elliot Cater in the classical music world and notes on the compositions by the composer. These are all chamber compositions. Mosaic is for solo harp and seven different instruments. It is written in the style of short mosaic tiles and is quite joyful. Servito im Vento is based on a poem by Petrarch and is quite sad for solo flute, Gra which means play in polish for solo clarinet was written for Lutoslawski to celebrate his birthday was very well performed. My personal favorite Enchanted Preludes for flute and cello which explores the differences between the two instruments is very beautiful especially at the end where the solo cello part.
Figment no, 1 for solo cello is also quite enchanting based on a single musical idea extended over six minutes. Riconoscenza for violin solo was written for the birthday of a fellow composer and it begins with joyous pizzacatos and ends on a more solemn note. Rhapsodic musings inspired by the violinist who premiered many of his works with the Julliard Quartet is the shortest piece may be the most beautiful and challenging.
Dialogues is a conversation between solo piano and eighteen different instruments is constantly changing having almost orchestral flavor at times
I was glad for the addition of the DVD which shows two pieces in live performance which helped me appreciate the challenging works even more. Elliot Carter is one of my favorite composers; it was nice to see works unfamiliar to me so well played by the New Music Concerts Ensemble. Please excuse typo I have a neuralgic disease.