Elliott Carter (Variations for Orchestra)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ม.ค. 2014
- Variations for Orchestra is one of Elliott Carter's more accessible pieces, believe it or not. The work was completed in 1955 as a commission from the Louisville Orchestra. It comes right out of the beginnings of his "mature" period. That's quite a long period of mature composition technique, considering he lived until 2012 (having passed away in November at the age of 103).
The recording is performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Michael Gielen (conducting), and it can be purchased along with Carter's Piano Concerto here: www.amazon.com/Elliot-Carter-C...
Elliott Carter's finest achievement I believe. Bristling with unbelievable expressive energy and contrapuntal virtuosity, it has everything. It is accessible at first hearing, and I am hearing new things after listening to it a thousand times. As far as I am aware, nobody has come close to it since then. A very high watermark for all of us for generations to come!
Certainly agree with you that this is an amazing piece of music. And repeated listenings prompt new vistas for appreciation and new vicissitudes of enjoyment. Whether or not it is Carters single greatest achievement is arguable. Composers of his rank, which is to say of the first rank, terms like "single greatest achievement" do not apply. From 1951 to 1980, EC wrote masterpieces of staggering genius, this "just" being one among many. Not until this very listening did I hear such a strong debt to his harpsichord quartet.
Performed properly Elliott Carter's music bends time. Gravity flows uphill. Rivers reverse course. Quantum cats are found dead.
As a kid there were two phrases we used a lot and those phrases applied equally to learning how to do algebra or popping a wheelie on a bike. Those two phrases are "catch on" and "getting the hang of it." They apply just as well to Mr. Carter's music. The phrases run deep and they apply well beyond facts and knowledge to a psychological even a spiritual connection that one "feels" in the bones and the connective tissue of one's body.
I was almost taken aback at the numerous Carter videos with sort of everyday industrial structures - mostly high rises and with lots of tinted glass - and fog or clouds rolling in or by .... it struck me as ordinary and not equal to the lofty and sometimes mystical leanings in Carters music. As i continue to meditate on the images themselves while the music streams i find myself connecting on a deeper level between the physical structures depicted and the music. I have always associated physical structures with spectral indeed "industrial" music ala Xennakis and a couple of others. What I'm trying to say is there is an industrial quality to Carter's music - but more to do with hustle and bustle of city life and its hecticness and chaos and sometimes beauty and elegance. I have always thought Carter's music more than perhaps any other expressed the modern day stream-of-consciousness associated with life. Sometimes pastoral, sometimes more city, at times even burlesque or carnival like - but I always thought of industrial as a lower form of music. The insistence of certain types of images by the uploader has forced me to contemplate Carter's industrial qualities in a very different way.
Wow what an ending! :) Elliot ROCKS!!!
Great music and visuals... thanks for uploading!
this is stunning
Oh no, now I've got to start collecting Carter, I guess! With all the Wuorinen on my hard-drive, I may run out of space.
carter is more important than wuorinen. However as i've mumbled on any number of occasions, wuorinens music will be many listeners gateway to American serialism.
One year later. I continue to listen to Wuorinen - in and of itself significant - where there are probably 5 to 10 composers from a year ago that I have pretty much ignored. But for now Carter and Babbitt are my one two American serialists. Wuorinen is third. And I stand by my thought that Wuorinen is more accessible than most serialists.
Get a bigger hard-drive
That's a haunting image.
Great music!!!
Love Elliott Carter!
me too
When the world bends around, when the structures of a civilization falter, it is good to return to that which in history does not flex, but on the contrary recovers courage, gathers the separated, pacifies without bruising. It’s worth recalling that the genius of creation is also moving in an history devoted to the destruction ..
P/C :seek a psychotherapist or swami
One of the strangest comments ever made, but what relevance has it to this music?
Ah P.C. you beat me to it. In the words of Meatloaf-"Wellll, ya took tha words rahght outta mah mouth...".
@@alexreik424 swami ? 🤔
good
Variation 4 (Ritardando molto) starts from 7:50
Epic perfect yes
Wonderful!
Good performance. But there is an even better one with the Chicago Sym Orch conducted by James Levine on DG
How levine is better than gielen?? What u smokin
Better strings,brass. More clarity. Better sound.
Just a better performance overall
@@coasterfrk100 yeah man Ive already downloaded it and gonna listen to it soon. The Chicago SO might be perfect for this kind of highly technical music. Thank u so much for the recommendation
The greatest composer since Beethoven. EOS.
Nah Henze
Thank oyu!
superbe musique mais je préfère les quatuors d'elliott carter , on dirait une musique de film , merci