Elliott Carter - Elliott Carter: A Nonesuch Retrospective
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Artist: Elliott CarterComposer: Elliott Carter
Conductor: Gerard Schwarz
Conductor: James Levine
Conductor: Arthur Weisberg
Conductor: Oliver Knussen
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2009-02-24
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Piano Sonata (1945, rev. 1982)
- Dust Of Snow (1942)
- The Rose Family (1942)
- The Minotaur (1947)
- Elegy for String Orchestra (1952)
- Sonata for Cello & Piano (1948)
- String Quartet No. 1 (1959)
- Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello, & Harpsichord (1952)
- Variations for Orchestra (1955)
- String Quartet No. 2 (1959)
- Double Concerto for Harpsichord & Piano with Two Chamber Orchestras (1961)
- Night Fantasies (1980)
- Triple Duo (1982)
- In Sleep, In Thunder (1981)
Music reviews of Elliott Carter: A Nonesuch Retrospective
Music Review: Authoritative performances.
Rating: 5 Stars
This is a convenient box containing a handful of Carter's best music up to 1982, from the early Piano Sonata to the Triple Duo. Many of the recordings are currently available from Nonesuch as individual releases (Nonesuch 71234, 71249, and 79248), but if you've put off buying any of these, now is your chance to get them all at a bargain price.
The clincher for this set, though, is the release of a few key recordings never available on CD or currently out of print. Paul Jacobs' 1982 recording of Night Fantasies -- Carter's largest work for piano and one of the most significant works for the instrument of the last fifty years -- has inexplicably never been released in digital format, and it's an essential addition to the discography. Jacobs was one of the four joint commissioners of the piece, and his performance is entirely as worthwhile as Oppens' and Rosen's. More deliberate than either of those, Jacobs luxuriates in the expansive chordal sections, but still flies through the more virtuosic passages with abandon. He may not have Oppens' delicate counterpoint or Rosen's architectural prowess, but it's a compelling and historically significant performance.
We also get reissues of the Triple Duo (also performed by the dedicatees, The Fires of London) and the 1981 song cycle In Sleep, In Thunder (with Martyn Hill and the London Sinfonietta, led by longtime Carter advocate Oliver Knussen), and a bonus of James Levine's fantastic performance of the Variations for Orchestra with the CSO, previously released on Deutsche Grammophon.
The other performances are well-documented and reviewed elsewhere; suffice it to say, they are all definitive recordings by seasoned Elliott Carter performers. The Composers Quartet, in my opinion, has the edge on both Arditti and Juilliard in their early recording of the first two quartets, particularly with the expansive desert landscapes of No. 1.
My only disappointment is that the Duo for violin and piano is unfortunately missing, another historic Nonesuch recording (Paul Zukofsky and Gilbert Kalish, who premiered the piece) which ought to have been included. Despite this, there's little excuse not to get this bargain set while you can. Perfect for Carter aficionados and new listeners alike, it's a fantastic selection of the breadth of his musical style in performances that can't be beat.
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This four-disc retrospective documents some of Carter's most essential works, recorded for Nonesuch between 1968 and 1985.Classical CDs
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