Carter, E
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Special offer. Elliott Carter: Late Works
RecommendedPierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Colin Currie (percussion), Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Oliver Knussen
brimming with youthful energy and Haydnesque, impish wit...Aimard brings fluent delicacy to the concertos and the orchestral soundings. He is matched in filigree precision by co-protagonists,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th December 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Jury Award - Premiere
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Orchestral
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Elgar & Carter: Cello Concertos
RecommendedAlisa Weilerstein (cello)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim
Weilerstein avoids nostalgia [in the Elgar] and produces instead an account that is full of passion, grief and nobility of feeling...Her interpretation [of the Carter], at once remarkably expressive... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th February 2013
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2013, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Recording of the Year & Concerto Award Winner
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In No 1 (1951), the Pacifica find a near-perfect balance between the driving intensity of the Arditti and portentous grandeur of the Juilliard. In No 5 (1995) they, like the Arditti make the... —
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Grammy Awards, 51st Awards (2008), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Discs like this are vital, reminding us of the importance of music today as well as referencing earlier epochs, reframing works we thought we knew so well. The recording, in itself a work of... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Music of Elliott Carter - Vol 8
Martin Owen (horn), Leigh Melrose (baritone), Rolf Schulte (violin) & Fred Sherry (cello), William Purvis (horn), Peter Kolkay (bassoon), Jon Nelson (trumpet), Donald Palma (contrabass), Hsin-Yun Huang (viola), Simon Boyar (marimba), Charles Neidich (clarinet), Lucy Shelton (soprano) & Charles...
Textures are pared down to their essence, a quality exemplified in the abundance of perfectly turned little miniatures for one or two instruments...All these things, whether tiny and serene... —
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Contemporary
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Ehnes is brilliant and incisive in the faster music, but his consistently intense vibrato seems at odds with Copland's moments of plain-speaking simplicity; pianist Orion Weiss is a model of... —
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Both pieces are packed with ideas, often tumbling over one another. Fortunately they don’t seem to get in each other’s way. —
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New. Barenboim conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The Complete Warner Classics Edition
Daniel Barenboim, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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$124.25
