Elliott Carter: Concerto for Orchestra; Violin Concerto; Three Occasions for Orchestra Oliver Knussen

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  • Release Date: 06/24/2008
  • Original Release: 1992
  • Sales Rank: 36,252
  • Label: EMI CLASSICS
  • UPC: 5099920662929

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Elliott Carter: Concerto for Orchestra; Violin Concerto; Three Occasions for Orchestra

1LISTENThree Occasions for orche
2LISTENThree Occasions for orche
3LISTENThree Occasions for orche
4LISTENViolin Concerto: 1. Impul
5LISTENViolin Concerto: 2. Angos
6LISTENViolin Concerto: 3. Scher
7LISTENConcerto for Orchestra: I
8LISTENConcerto for Orchestra: 1
9LISTENConcerto for Orchestra: 2
10LISTENConcerto for Orchestra: 3
11LISTENConcerto for Orchestra: 4
12LISTENConcerto for Orchestra: C

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Carrying on the American tradition of uncompromising modernism, Elliott Carter's recent music remains as resolutely atonal, indefatigably dissonant, and unremittingly intellectual as his earlier music. This 1991 disc with Oliver Knussen leading the London Sinfonietta couples his 1969 "Concerto for Orchestra," his 1989 "Three Occasions for Orchestra," and his 1990 "Violin Concerto" in a program as likely to attract Carter's fans as it is to repel just about everyone else. For the initiated, Carter's brilliantly colored "Three Occasions," radically virtuosic "Violin Concerto," and wildly scored "Concerto for Orchestra" will provide the evidence to prove modernism isn't dead. For the uninitiated, the music will sound like an unholy combination of Schoenberg's expressionism, Webern's serialism, Stravinsky's individualism, and Ives' mix and match eclecticism. A noted composer himself, Knussen clearly grasps all there is to grasp in Carter's music, and the London Sinfonietta gives him blindingly virtuosic performances, as does violinist Ole Böhn in the concerto. Un-remastered by EMI, Virgin's 1991 digital sound is clear, bright, and cool. James Leonard, All Music Guide

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