Volume Six of The Music of Elliott Carter gives listeners a taste of how drastically Carter's compositional style has changed. The Holiday Overture, composed in 1944, is pure "American music" and is more than a little bit reminiscent of Aaron Copland. Hints of Carter's later voice are still quite clear as the overture grows in contrapuntal complexity.The first work on the program, however, is the Violin Concerto of 1990. By this point, already in his eighties, Carter had clearly established his own voice and compositional ...
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Volume Six of The Music of Elliott Carter gives listeners a taste of how drastically Carter's compositional style has changed. The Holiday Overture, composed in 1944, is pure "American music" and is more than a little bit reminiscent of Aaron Copland. Hints of Carter's later voice are still quite clear as the overture grows in contrapuntal complexity.The first work on the program, however, is the Violin Concerto of 1990. By this point, already in his eighties, Carter had clearly established his own voice and compositional style and the concerto bares little resemblance to its much younger cousin. Performed here by violinist Rolf Schulte and the Odense Symphony Orchestra, the violin clearly steals the show, even more than may be desired. While Schulte's playing seems almost effortless, the orchestra at times seems to be plodding along behind in an effort to keep up. The two very different personalities presented in the second movement, however, are very successful.The Four Lauds for Solo Violin alone...
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