Elliott Carter - Sonata for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord (1952) [Score Video]

Elliott Carter - Sonata for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord (1952)
00:00 I. Risoluto
03:19 II. Lento
09:54 III. Allegro
Harvey Sollberger, flute
Charles Kuskin, oboe
Fred Sherry, cello
Paul Jacobs, harpsichord
According to the composer, the Sonata was written during a time (1952) when “I was preoccupied with the tie-memory patterns of music…” and with a freer, more vital and sensitive musical language. The harpsichord functions as the center of the music due to its “wonderful array of tone-colors.” Here is Carter’s description of the Sonata: “The music starts, Risoluto, with a splashing dramatic gesture whose subsiding ripples for the rest of the movement. The Lento is an expressive dialogue between the harpsichord and the others with an undercurrent of fast music that bursts out briefly near the end. The Allegro, with its gondolier’s dance fading into other dance movments, is cross-cut like a movie - at times it superimposes one dance on another.”

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