Elliott Carter (b. 1908) - The Complete Piano Music (1997)
Elliott Carter (b. 1908) - The Complete Piano Music (1997)
Charles Rosen, piano
Contemporary | EAC (ape + cue) | 1CD 56:55 | booklet | 189MB | RS
Charles Rosen, piano
Contemporary | EAC (ape + cue) | 1CD 56:55 | booklet | 189MB | RS
Opening with a fleshy, resonant version of "90+," which was nominated for a 1998 Grammy award, this Carter collection is special not only for Charles Rosen's execution but also for the CD-closing conversation between performer and composer. Rosen opens the chat with a demonstration of how harmonic dissonance at once backlights and highlights Carter's famed rhythmic explorations. And Carter tells him, "This is the way we experience many things, the idea that one thing comments on another constantly." That's how Carter's music is, also constantly: frontal harmonic shocks, whether ringing tremulously or jumping in bursts of flash–as in Rosen's read of the Piano Sonata–are in dialogue with silence, rhythmic twists, and plainly beautiful constructions that sound in-process.
On 2008 came out: Oppens Plays Carter, Cedille CDR 90000 108, with piano pieces composed after 1997 (Two Diversions; Retrouvailles; Two Thoughts About the Piano; Matribute): Elliott Carter isn't the easiest composer to love, but he's an important one.
Music of Elliott Carter: vol III - The Complete Music for Piano - (5 tracks) 56:55
01 90+, for piano [1994] for Goffredo Petrasso 90th birthday 06:21
Piano Sonata [1945-46; 1982 rev.] (2 tracks, 22:49)
02 I Maestoso 10:13
03 II Andante 12:36
04 Night Fantasies [1980] 21:03
05 Elliott Carter In Conversation With Charles Rosen [1966] 06:38
Bridge BCD 9090 (1997)
Third in a row of 6: E N J O Y
ps: If someone has a copy of Oppens Plays Carter, Cedille CDR 90000 108 (2008) it's clear what to do……