Carter: Late Works

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ELLIOTT CARTER
Carter: Late Works
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) Isabelle Faust (violin) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Colin Currie (percussion) / Birmingham Contemporary Music

[ Ondine / CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 10 October 2017

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An impressive cast of artists are joining together in this Ondine recording dedicated to the late works by iconic American composer Elliott Carter (1908-2012). The album includes five premiere recordings, including Carter's final work Epigrams (2012) for piano trio, featuring Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Isabelle Faust and Jean-Guihen Queyras. The album also features percussionist Colin Currie joined together with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Oliver Knussen.

Gramophone Award FINALIST 2018 - Orchestral

"The pieces here provide a perfect introduction to the spare, regularly surprising world that Carter's last works inhabit...No one has been a more committed champion than Oliver Knussen, and he conducts all the orchestral pieces here with his familiar feisty clarity. Pierre-Laurent Aimard is the equally quick-witted soloist in the piano works." The Guardian

"No one hearing the pieces on this disc is likely to doubt their technical finesse or expressive refinement: qualities that go a long way towards the defining of 'lateness' in artistic terms...[Aimard] tackles this always demanding pianism with alacrity and perception...There are unlikely to be any better discs of contemporary music this year." Gramophone Editor's Choice Sept 2017

"Elliott Carter's music retained its intellectual grip right to the end and an all-star line-up of performers - pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, violinist Isabelle Faust, percussionist Colin Currie, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Oliver Knussen - does it proud." Financial Times

"brimming with youthful energy and Haydnesque, impish wit...Aimard brings fluent delicacy to the concertos and the orchestral soundings. He is matched in filigree precision by co-protagonists, percussionist Colin Currie, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group under conductor Oliver Knussen. Carter's very last, centenarian works...prove concise, poetic and delightfully mischievous as ever." BBC Music Award WINNER 2018 - Jury Award - Premiere

Tracks:

Interventions
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Dialogues
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Dialogues II
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Soundings
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Two Controversies and a Conversation
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Colin Currie (percussion)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Instances
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Epigrams
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)

Instances