Lauds and Lamentations: Music of Elliott Carter and Isang Yun - 2 CD BOXED SET

Lauds and Lamentations: Music of Elliott Carter and Isang Yun - 2 CD BOXED SET

Lauds and Lamentations: Music of Elliott Carter and Isang Yun - 2 CD BOXED SET
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Composer: Elliott Carter
Composer: Isang Yun
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2003-06-24
Music Label: ECM Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Oboe Quartet For Oboe, Violin, Viola, Violoncello
  2. Statement - Remembering Aaron
  3. Riconoscenza Per Goffredo Petrassi
  4. Rhapsodic Musings
  5. Fantasy - Remembering Roger
  6. A 6 Letter Letter For English Horn In F
  7. Figment For Cello Alone
  8. Figment II - Remembering Mr. Ives - For Cello Alone
Music CD 2
  1. Piri For Oboe Solo
  2. Quartet For Oboe And String Trio - I
  3. Quartet For Oboe And String Trio - II
  4. Quartet For Oboe And String Trio - III

Music reviews of Lauds and Lamentations: Music of Elliott Carter and Isang Yun - 2 CD BOXED SET

Music Review: Authoritative performances of some of Carter's recent pieces, if the more fluffy ones
Rating: 3 Stars

This ECM release from 2003 brings together pieces by Elliott Carter and Isang Yun for the forces of oboe quartet, whether alone or collectively. The legendary modernist oboeist Heinz Holliger presides, accompanied by Thomas Zehetmair on violin, Ruth Killius on viola, and Thomas Demenga on cello.

Yeah, I could complain about how one is paying full price for a double CD set, even though there's only 80 minutes of music here. But I think we contemporary fans are suckers in that Carter completists and those hunting relatively rare recordings of Yun are going to get this anyway.

One often hears that Carter's late style was inaugurated by his Oboe Concerto, but the Oboe Quartet (2001) shows how his music has moved on greatly even from that new phase. As Carter has gotten older, the interactions of instruments within his ensembles has become increasingly limited, and this quartet is essentially a series of duos. While Carter's concerto for oboe explored all kinds of extended techniques, he eschews them here completely, though virtuoso demands of register changes and fast fingering remain. While fun in parts, I find this piece overlong and often a retread of earlier Carter achievements.

The "4 Lauds" for solo violin (1984-2001) is a little cycle of tributes to a few men dear to Carter: Goffredo Petrassi. Aaron Copland, Roger Sessions, Robert Mann, Ole Bøhn and Rolf Schulte. It mixes some very astringent modernism with surprisingly lyrical passages--who said Carter's music couldn't be touching? All kinds of violin techniques are used here, and I especially like the guitar-like strumming in the first piece.

"A 6 Letter Letter" for English horn (1996) is one of umpteen modern pieces that honour the conductor and patron Paul Sacher by encoding his name as notes (eS-A-C-H-E-Re = E flat-A-C-B-E-D). Carter goes even further into lyricism here, producing a piece that should be pleasing to the ears even of the most conservative listeners, yet containing Carter's rhythmic exhuberance below the surface.

The Carter portion concludes with two fairly light pieces for solo cello. In "Figment" (1994), the soloist must pull a whole world of sounds out of his single instrument, but in "Figment II -- Remembering Mr. Ives" (2001), Carter offers straightforward passage of lyricism not too different from the Classical and Romantic cello traditions.

This was my first exposure to the music of Isang Yun. "Piri" for oboe solo (1971) is a monodic piece characterized by extremely long-held notes. The Oboe Quartet (1994) has very little of a collaborative nature about it, as its four performers each produce the same sort of sounds as in "Piri" in seemingly isolation. Interesting enough to have a listen to this, but I don't feel drawn into exploring Isang Yun's output further.

The liner notes are substantial, featuring comments by Holliger, an informative interview with Carter on his late period, and an essay on the two composers by Philippe Albera. There's the issue of price versus length, and none of the Carter seem especially important compared to his other recent pieces, so I'll award this disc three stars.
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