Elliott Carter - In Sleep, In Thunder / Triple Duo (1995)
Elliott Carter: In Sleep, In Thunder / Triple Duo (1995)
Classical | EAC (APE & CUE) | 132 MB
Classical | EAC (APE & CUE) | 132 MB
While nominating Elliott Carter for the "Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters for Eminence in Music" in 1971, Aaron Copland stated that "Elliott Carter is one of America's most distinguished creative artist in any field." Two important pieces of Carter's composition are now available as a re-release on this CD: In Sleep, In Thunder and Triple Duo. "In Sleep, In Thunder" is a setting of six poems by the late Robert Lowell and composed "in memory of the poet and friend". Black comic parodies and ice-cold irony determine the atmosphere of the six songs. For Carter the way out of the black world of the Lowell cycle was "Triple Duo", a work whose comic mood appears in its very opening where the players are caught in the act of warming up before beginning.
- Tracklist
1 Dolphin
2 Across the Yard: La Ignota
3 Harriet
4 Dies irae
5 Careless Night
6 In Genesis
7 Triple Duo
7 Allegro tenor
8 Vivo-Animato tenor
9 Allegretto tenor
10 Vivo tenor
11 Maestro-Lento-Maestro-Scherzoso
12 Allegro fantastico
Martyn Hill, tenor
The Fires of London
The London Sinfonietta
Oliver Knussen, conductor
