Elliott Carter (b. 1908) - The Music of E.C. Volume Four (2001)
Elliott Carter (b. 1908) - The Music of E.C. Volume Four (2001)
Speculum Musicae
Contemporary | EAC (ape + cue) | 1CD 56:55 | booklet | 189MB | RS
Speculum Musicae
Contemporary | EAC (ape + cue) | 1CD 56:55 | booklet | 189MB | RS
Critics often write as if technique and expression - or indeed form and content - are entirely separate. As if the manipulations of tone and rhythm, line and harmony, which the composer must perform in order to create his music are somehow divorced from, if not actually inimical to, the music's emotional life. Yet in the greatest composers there is of course no such opposition: technique exists to project and embody the poetry, the imaginative fire, that audiences respond to whether or not they know or care about the music's inner workings. Technique is expression.
Thus it is with Elliott Carter.from the attached booklet
Music of Elliott Carter: vol IV - (18 tracks) 52:51
01 Shard, for guitar solo [1997] David Starobin (g ) 02:44
02 Luimen, for mandolin, guitar, harp, vibraphone, trumpet and trombone [1997] 10:18
Tempo e tempi [1999] Susan Narucki (sop) 15:31
03 I Tempo e tempi - text: Eugenio Montale 02:06
04 II Ed è subito sera - text: Salvatore Quasimodo 00:39
05 III Oboe sommerso - text: Salvatore Quasimodo 02:01
06 IV Una colomba - text: Giuseppe Ungaretti 00:44
07 V Godimento - text: Giuseppe Ungaretti 01:11
08 VI L'Arno a Rovezzano - text: Eugenio Montale 03:29
09 VII Uno - text: Giusesse Ungaretti 01:34
10 VIII Segreto del Poeta - text: Giuseppe Ungaretti 03:47
Eight Pieces for Four Timpani [1950-66] Daniel Druckmann (tim) 24:18
11 I Improvisation 03:02
12 II Saeta 05:03
13 III Moto perpetuo 01:31
14 IV Recitative 03:21
15 V Canto 03:03
16 VI March 02:51
17 VII Adagio 02:03
18 VIII Canaries 03:24
Bridge BCD 9111 (2001)
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