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Elliott Carter
Person · male · United States · Manhattan · born 1908 · died 2012 · recording since 1961
American composer (1908-2012)
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Also known as Eliott Carter · Elliot Carter · Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. · 艾略特·卡特
Timeline
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1900s
1940s
1950s
1960s
· Debut release
Debut release: Elliott Carter: String Quartet no. 2 / William Schuman: String Quartet no. 3
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Album: Elliott Carter: String Quartet no. 2 / William Schuman: String Quartet no. 3
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1970s
1980s
1990s
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Album: Bach: Suite Nr. 3 in C-Dur für Violoncello solo / Carter: Esprit rude, esprit doux for Flute and Clarinet / Enchanted Preludes for Flute and Violoncello / Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi for Solo Violin / Triple Duo
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2000s
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Album: Oboe Concerto / Esprit rude / Esprit doux / A Mirror on Which to Dwell / Penthode
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Album: Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit / Carter: Night Fantasies / Two Diversions / 90+
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Album: Concerto for Orchestra / Violin Concerto / Three Occasions for Orchestra
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2010s
Biography
English biography2,241 words · 6 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1379517977
Biography
Elliott Cook Carter Jr. (December 11, 1908 – November 5, 2012) was an American modernist composer who was one of the most respected composers of the second half of the 20th century. He combined elements of European modernism and American "ultra-modernism" into a distinctive style with a personal harmonic and rhythmic language, after an early neoclassical phase. His compositions are performed throughout the world, and include orchestral, chamber music, solo instrumental, and vocal works. Carter was the recipient of many awards – he was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his string quartets. He also wrote the large-scale orchestral triptych Symphonia: sum fluxae pretium spei.
Carter was born in New York City. He developed an interest in modern music in the 1920s. He was later introduced to Charles Ives, and he soon came to appreciate the American ultra-modernists. After studying at Harvard University with Edward Burlingame Hill, Gustav Holst and Walter Piston, he studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, then returned to the United States. Carter was productive in his later years, publishing more than 40 works between the ages of 90 and 100, and over 20 more after he turned 100 in 2008. He completed his last work, Epigrams for piano trio, on August 13, 2012.
Biography
Elliott Cook Carter Jr. was born in Manhattan on December 11, 1908, the son of a wealthy lace importer, Elliott Carter Sr., and the former Florence Chambers. Much of his childhood was spent in Europe; he spoke French before learning English. As a teenager he developed an interest in music, although his parents did not encourage his interests other than providing for early piano lessons. However, he was encouraged by Charles Ives, who sold insurance to Carter's family. While a student at the Horace Mann School in 1922, he wrote an admiring letter to Ives, who responded and urged him to pursue his interest in music. He began to be interested in modern music as part of his broader exploration of modernism in various other art forms.
In 1924, the 15-year-old Carter was in the audience and "galvanized" when Pierre Monteux conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) in the New York première of The Rite of Spring. Carter later came to appreciate the American ultra-modernists: Henry Cowell, Edgard Varèse, Ruth Crawford and, later, Conlon Nancarrow. Ives often accompanied Carter to BSO concerts conducted by Serge Koussevitzky, who programmed contemporary works frequently, and then returned to Ives' home to critique and parody the so-called tricks of Debussy, Stravinsky or Prokofiev, who were composing European new music that Ives considered only 'superficially modern'.
Starting in 1926, Carter attended Harvard University, where he majored in English but also studied music, both at Harvard (whose music course did not satisfy him) and at the nearby Longy School of Music, and also sang with the Harvard Glee Club. His Harvard professors included Walter Piston and Gustav Holst. Carter earned a master's degree in music from Harvard in 1932, but the course did not help make much progress in his compositional skills; hence, Carter then moved to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger, both privately and at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. He worked with Boulanger from 1932 to 1935 (though he did not compose much music with her that he believed was worth preserving) and in the latter year received a doctorate in music (Mus.D.).
Later in 1935, he returned to the US to write music for the Ballet Caravan. The founder of the Ballet Caravan Lincoln Kirstein commissioned Carter to compose two ballets, Pocahontas and The Minotaur, which would be among his longest works he composed during his Neo-classicist phase, though neither of them was greatly successful.
On July 6, 1939, Carter married Helen Frost-Jones. They had one child, a son, David Chambers Carter. He lived with his wife in the same apartment in Greenwich Village from the time they bought it in 1945 to her death in 2003.
From 1940 to 1944, he taught at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. He worked for the Office of War Information during World War II. After the war, he held teaching posts at the Peabody Conservatory (1946–1948), Columbia University, Queens College, New York (1955–56), Yale University (1960–62), Cornell University (from 1967) and the Juilliard School (from 1972). Meanwhile, in the 1950s, Carter, having edited Ives' music, turned back to his interest in the experimentalists. In response to his experience in the war, he decided to achieve an emancipated musical discourse through re-examination of all parameters of music. Notable works during this time were the Cello Sonata, the rhythmically complex first string quartet and Variations for Orchestra. The latter two marked Carter's turning point in his career.
Carter wrote music every morning until his death, of natural causes, on November 5, 2012, at his home in New York City, at age 103.
Premieres and notable performances
Carter composed his only opera, What Next?, in 1997–98 for the Berlin State Opera at the behest of conductor Daniel Barenboim. The work premiered in Berlin in 1999 and had its first staging in the United States at the Tanglewood Music Festival in 2006, conducted by James Levine. He later considered writing operas on the themes of communal suicide and a story by Henry James, but abandoned both ideas and resolved to write no more operas.
Interventions for Piano and Orchestra received its premiere on December 5, 2008, by the BSO, conducted by James Levine and featuring the pianist Daniel Barenboim at Symphony Hall, Boston. On December 11, 2008, Barenboim reprised the work with the BSO at Carnegie Hall in New York in the presence of the composer on his 100th birthday. Carter was also present at the 2009 Aldeburgh Festival to hear the world premiere of his song cycle On Conversing with Paradise, based on Ezra Pound's Canto 81 and one of Pound's 'Notes' intended for later Cantos, and usually published at the end of the Cantos. The premiere was given on June 20, 2009, by the baritone Leigh Melrose and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group conducted by Oliver Knussen.
Figment V for marimba was premiered in New York on May 2, 2009, by Simon Boyar, and Poems of Louis Zukofsky for soprano and clarinet had its first performance by Lucy Shelton and Thomas Martin at the Tanglewood Festival on August 9, 2009. The US premiere of the Flute Concerto took place on February 4, 2010, with the flutist Elizabeth Rowe and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Levine. The last premiere of Carter's lifetime was Dialogues II, written for Barenboim's 70th birthday and conducted in Milan in October 2012 by Gustavo Dudamel. The last Carter premiere ever, which happened after Carter's death, was "The American Sublime", a work for baritone and large ensemble, dedicated to and conducted by Levine.
Musical style and language
Carter's earlier works were influenced by Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, and Paul Hindemith, and are mainly neoclassical. He had strict training in counterpoint, from medieval polyphony to Stravinsky, and this shows in his earliest music, such as the ballet Pocahontas (1938–39). Some of his music during the Second World War is fairly diatonic, and includes a melodic lyricism reminiscent of Samuel Barber.
Starting in the late 1940s his music shows an increasing development of a personal harmonic and rhythmic language characterized by elaborate rhythmic layering and metric modulation. While Carter's chromaticism and tonal vocabulary parallels serial composers of the period, Carter did not use serial techniques. Carter said, "I certainly have never used a twelve-tone row as the basis of a composition, in the way described in Schoenberg's Style and Idea, nor are my compositions a constant rotation of various permutations of twelve-tone rows". Rather, he independently developed and catalogued all possible collections of pitches (i.e., all possible three-note chords, five-note chords, etc.), compiling what he called his Harmony Book. (An edited version of the book was published in 2002 by Carl Fischer Music.) Musical theorists like Allen Forte independently had systematized these data into musical set theory perhaps having been inspired by Howard Hanson's Harmonic Materials of Modern Music. A series of Carter's works in the 1960s and 1970s generates its tonal material by using all possible chords of a particular number of pitches.
Among his better known works are the Variations for Orchestra (1954–55); the Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano with Two Chamber Orchestras (1959–61); the Piano Concerto (1964–65), written as an 85th-birthday present for Stravinsky; the Concerto for Orchestra (1969), loosely based on a poem by Saint-John Perse; and the Symphony of Three Orchestras (1976). He also composed five string quartets, of which the second and third won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1960 and 1973 respectively. Spaced at regular intervals throughout his mature career, they are considered by some to be the most important body of work in that medium since Bartók. Symphonia: sum fluxae pretium spei (1993–96) is his largest orchestral work, complex in structure and featuring contrasting layers of instrumental textures, from delicate wind solos to crashing brass and percussion outbursts.
The Piano Concerto (1964–65) uses the collection of three-note chords for its pitch material; the Third String Quartet (1971) uses all four-note chords; the Concerto for Orchestra (1969) all five-note chords; and A Symphony of Three Orchestras uses the collection of six-note chords. Carter also made frequent use of "tonic" 12-note chords. Of particular interest are "all-interval" 12-tone chords, where every interval is represented within adjacent notes of the chord. His 1980 solo piano work Night Fantasies uses the entire collection of the 88 symmetrical-inverted all-interval 12-note chords. Typically, the pitch material is segmented between instruments, with a unique set of chords or sets assigned to each instrument or orchestral section. This stratification of material, with individual voices assigned not only their own unique pitch material but texture and rhythm as well, is a key component of Carter's style. His music after Night Fantasies has been termed his late period and his tonal language became less systematized and more intuitive, but retains the basic characteristics of his earlier works.
Carter's use of rhythm can best be understood with the concept of stratification. Each instrumental voice is typically assigned its own set of tempos. A structural polyrhythm, where a very slow polyrhythm is used as a formal device, is present in many of Carter's works. Night Fantasies, for example, uses a 216:175 tempo relation that coincides at only two points over its 20+ minutes. This use of rhythm was part of his expansion of the notion of counterpoint to encompass simultaneous different characters, even entire movements, rather than just individual lines.
Carter said that the steady pulses of older music reminded him of soldiers marching or horses trotting, sounds no longer heard in the late 20th century, and he wanted his music to capture the sort of continuous acceleration or deceleration experienced in an automobile or an airplane. While Carter's music shows little trace of American popular music or jazz, his vocal music has demonstrated strong ties to contemporary American poetry. He set poems by Elizabeth Bishop (A Mirror on Which to Dwell), John Ashbery (Syringa and Mad Regales), Robert Lowell (In Sleep, in Thunder and Mad Regales), John Hollander (Of Challenge and of Love), William Carlos Williams (Of Rewaking), Wallace Stevens (In the Distances of Sleep and The American Sublime), Ezra Pound (On Conversing with Paradise), E. E. Cummings (A Sunbeam's Architecture), Marianne Moore (What Are Years) and T. S. Eliot (Three Explorations). Twentieth-century poets also inspired several of his large instrumental works, such as the Concerto for Orchestra (St. John Perse) and A Symphony of Three Orchestras (Hart Crane).
Awards and honors
1945, 1950: Guggenheim Fellowship for Music Composition
1960: Pulitzer Prize for Music, for String Quartet No. 2
1963: Elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1969: Elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
1973: Pulitzer Prize for Music, for String Quartet No. 3
1981: Ernst von Siemens Music Prize
1983: Edward MacDowell Medal, awarded by the MacDowell Colony
1985: National Medal of Arts, awarded by the by President of the United States and the National Endowment for the Arts
1987: Named a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government
1998: Inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame and Museum
2005: The Thomas Jefferson Medal, awarded by the American Philosophical Society
2009: Received a Trustees Award (a lifetime achievement award given to non-performers) from the Grammy Awards.
2012: Named a Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur by the French government
Partial discography
Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello and Harpsichord; Sonata for Cello and Piano; Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano With Two Chamber Orchestras. Paul Jacobs, harpsichord; Joel Krosnick, cello; Gilbert Kalish, piano; The Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, Arthur Weisberg, cond. Elektra/Nonesuch 9 79183–2.
String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2. The Composers Quartet. Elektra/Nonesuch 9 71249–2
Piano Concerto; Variations for Orchestra. Ursula Oppens, piano; Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Michael Gielen, cond. New World Records, NW 347–2.
Triple Duo; Clarinet Concerto; Short Pieces. Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Lorraine Vaillancourt, cond. ATMA Classique, ACD2 2280.
Complete Music for Piano. Charles Rosen, piano. Bridge 9090.
Vocal Works (1975–81): A Mirror on Which to Dwell; In Sleep, In Thunder; Syringa; Three Poems of Robert Frost. Speculum Musicae with Katherine Ciesinki, mezzo; Jon Garrison, tenor; Jan Opalach, bass; Christine Schadeberg, soprano. Bridge, BCD 9014.
Dialogues; Boston Concerto; Cello Concerto; ASKO Concerto. Nicolas Hodges, piano; Fred Sherry, cello; London Sinfonietta, BBC Symphony Orchestra, ASKO Ensemble, Oliver Knussen, cond. Bridge 9184.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 26 | 87.5th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 47 | 93.9th |
| Studio albums | 38 | 98.8th |
| Awards recorded | 14 | 99.2th |
| Timeline events | 47 | 98.7th |
| Recording span (years) | 51 | 91.8th |
| Genres | 7 | 93th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (47 release groups · 38 studio albums)
Albums · 38
Elliott Carter: String Quartet no. 2 / William Schuman: String Quartet no. 3
1961 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 43:51
1String Quartet no. 2: Introduction1:092String Quartet no. 2: I. Allegro fantastico2:383String Quartet no. 2: Cadenza for Viola1:234String Quartet no. 2: II. Presto scherzando2:125String Quartet no. 2: Cadenza for Cello2:096String Quartet no. 2: III. Andante espressivo4:127String Quartet no. 2: Cadenza for Violin I1:418String Quartet no. 2: IV. Allegro4:459String Quartet no. 2: Conclusion1:1110String Quartet no. 3: I. Introduction and Fugue7:2411String Quartet no. 3: II. Intermezzo7:2512String Quartet no. 3: III. Rondo Variations7:421970 · studio album
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Tracklist · 4 tracks · 57:40
A1String Quartet no. 1: Fantasia. Maestoso - Allegro scorrevole11:57A2String Quartet no. 1: Allegro scorrevole - Adagio12:30B1String Quartet no. 1: Variations13:14B2String Quartet no. 219:59Night Fantasies / Piano Sonata
1983 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 43:56
1Night Fantasies21:132Piano Sonata22:431989 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 1:01:39
1Three Poems of Robert Frost: No. 1. Dust of Snow1:252Three Poems of Robert Frost: No. 2. The Rose Family1:223Three Poems of Robert Frost: No. 3. The Line Gang2:044A Mirror on Which to Dwell: No. 1. Anaphora3:165A Mirror on Which to Dwell: No. 2. Argument2:346A Mirror on Which to Dwell: No. 3. Sandpiper2:207A Mirror on Which to Dwell: No. 4. Insomnia2:418A Mirror on Which to Dwell: No. 5. View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress2:579A Mirror on Which to Dwell: No. 6. O Breath3:2910Syringa19:0111In Sleep, in Thunder: No. 1. Dolphin3:0912In Sleep, in Thunder: No. 2. Across the Yard: La Ignota3:1913In Sleep, in Thunder: No. 3. Harriet3:3814In Sleep, in Thunder: No. 4. Dies Irae3:2115In Sleep, in Thunder: No. 5. Careless Night4:3316In Sleep, in Thunder: No. 6. In Genesis2:301990 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 54:13
A1Suite Nr. 3 in C-Dur für Violoncello solo, BWV 1009: Prélude3:09A2Suite Nr. 3 in C-Dur für Violoncello solo, BWV 1009: Allemande3:56A3Suite Nr. 3 in C-Dur für Violoncello solo, BWV 1009: Courante2:53A4Suite Nr. 3 in C-Dur für Violoncello solo, BWV 1009: Sarabande3:10A5Suite Nr. 3 in C-Dur für Violoncello solo, BWV 1009: Bourrée I & II3:09A6Suite Nr. 3 in C-Dur für Violoncello solo, BWV 1009: Gigue3:08A7Esprit rude, esprit doux for Flute and Clarinet4:39A8Enchanted Preludes for Flute and Violoncello6:13B1Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi for Solo Violin4:17B2Triple Duo19:39The Four String Quartets / Duo for Violin & Piano
1991 · studio album
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Tracklist · 29 tracks · 2:16:55
Disc 11String Quartet no. 1: I. Fantasia: Maestoso9:322String Quartet no. 1: Ib. Allegro scorrevole3:443String Quartet no. 1: II. Allegro scorrevole1:184String Quartet no. 1: IIb. Adagio - Variations12:155String Quartet no. 1: III. Variations15:146String Quartet no. 2: Introduction1:167String Quartet no. 2: I. Allegro fantastico3:028String Quartet no. 2: Cadenza for Viola1:339String Quartet no. 2: II. Presto scherzando2:2010String Quartet no. 2: Cadenza for Cello2:1911String Quartet no. 2: III. Andante espressivo4:3312String Quartet no. 2: Cadenza for Violin I1:5413String Quartet no. 2: IV. Allegro5:0614String Quartet no. 2: Conclusion1:22Disc 21String Quartet no. 3: Duo II: Maestoso (giusto sempre) - Pause - Grazioso - Giusto, meccanico / Duo I: Furioso (quasi rubato sempre) - Leggerissimo - Andante espressivo4:162String Quartet no. 3: Duo II: Giusto, meccanico (continued) - Pause - Scorrevole / Duo I: Giocoso - Pause2:093String Quartet no. 3: Duo II: Scorrevole (continued) - Giusto, meccanico - Grazioso / Duo I: Leggerissimo - Furioso - Pause2:464String Quartet no. 3: Duo II: Grazioso (continued) - Maestoso - Pause / Duo I: Giocoso - Andante espressivo2:345String Quartet no. 3: Duo II: Largo tranquillo - Appassionato - Largo tranquillo - Pause / Duo I: Andante espressivo (continued) - Pause - Leggerissimo - Giocoso - Furioso5:206String Quartet no. 3: Duo II: Scorrevole - Appassionato - Coda / Duo I: Furioso (continued) - Andante espressivo - Furioso - Coda4:157String Quartet no. 4: Appassionato7:158String Quartet no. 4: Scherzando (stesso tempo)6:399String Quartet no. 4: Lento (stesso tempo)7:3910String Quartet no. 4: Presto7:2711Duo for Violin & Piano: ♩ = 845:5712Duo for Violin & Piano: ♩ = 966:0613Duo for Violin & Piano: ♩ = 482:3014Duo for Violin & Piano: ♩ = 1262:5015Duo for Violin & Piano: ♪. = 963:44Piano Concerto / Variations for Orchestra
1992 · studio album
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Tracklist · 3 tracks · 44:52
1Piano Concerto: I10:102Piano Concerto: II12:253Variations for Orchestra22:171994 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 1:17:43
1Gra4:342Enchanted Preludes6:303Duo21:284Scrivo in vento5:555Changes7:436Con leggerezza pensosa5:167Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi6:308Sonata for Violoncello and Piano: I.4:459Sonata for Violoncello and Piano: II.4:2810Sonata for Violoncello and Piano: III.4:5811Sonata for Violoncello and Piano: IV.5:361995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 1:01:54
1Concerto for Piano and Orchestra: I.10:012Concerto for Piano and Orchestra: II.12:303Concerto for Orchestra22:234Three Occasions for Orchestra: A Celebration of 100 × 150 Notes3:325Three Occasions for Orchestra: Remembrance6:316Three Occasions for Orchestra: Anniversary6:571997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 56:54
190+6:212Piano Sonata (1982 rev.): I. Maestoso10:133Piano Sonata (1982 rev.): II. Andante12:374Night Fantasies21:045Elliott Carter in Conversation With Charles Rosen6:391997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 29 tracks · 1:15:48
1Three Poems by Robert Frost: Dust of Snow1:192Three Poems by Robert Frost: The Rose Family1:153Three Poems by Robert Frost: The Line-Gang2:144Warble for Lilac-Time7:205Voyage5:506Of Challenge and of Love: High on Our Tower2:247Of Challenge and of Love: Under the Dome5:298Of Challenge and of Love: Am Klavier3:339Of Challenge and of Love: Quatrains From Harp Lake at the Piano9:2210Of Challenge and of Love: End of a Chapter1:2811Storm-Cloud1:4412Two Songs on Poems of Gorodetsky, op. 6: Spring (At the Cloister)5:4213Two Songs on Poems of Gorodetsky, op. 6: Dew (Mystic Song of the Khlisti)4:2414Pastorale2:0515Two Poems of Konstantin Balmont: The Forget-Me-Not1:1416Two Poems of Konstantin Balmont: The Dove1:3717Three Little Songs, Recollections of My Childhood: The Magpie0:2118Three Little Songs, Recollections of My Childhood: The Rook0:4619Three Little Songs, Recollections of My Childhood: The Jackdaw0:4220Berceuse1:1421Three Tales for Children: Tilimbom1:0822Three Tales for Children: Geese, Swans...0:3123Three Tales for Children: The Bear, Story With a Song3:1824Four Russian Songs: The Drake1:1425Four Russian Songs: Counting Song0:5426Four Russian Songs: Tablemat Song1:0627Four Russian Songs: Sectarian Song1:4228Russian Maiden's Song2:4429The Owl and the Pussy-Cat3:081998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 20 tracks · 1:15:59
1String Quartet no. 5: I. Introduction1:242String Quartet no. 5: II. Giocoso2:303String Quartet no. 5: III. Interlude I1:124String Quartet no. 5: IV. Lento espressivo1:465String Quartet no. 5: V. Interlude II1:196String Quartet no. 5: VI. Presto scorrevole1:077String Quartet no. 5: VII. Interlude III1:328String Quartet no. 5: VIII. Allegro energico2:009String Quartet no. 5: IX. Interlude IV1:5810String Quartet no. 5: X. Adagio sereno2:3011String Quartet no. 5: XI. Interlude V1:2612String Quartet no. 5: XII. Capriccioso1:321390+5:4314Sonata for Cello and Piano: I. Moderato5:1515Sonata for Cello and Piano: II. Vivace, molto leggiero4:4116Sonata for Cello and Piano: III. Adagio5:4217Sonata for Cello and Piano: IV. Allegro5:4818Figment5:1319Duo for Violin and Piano19:1820Fragment4:031998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 1:07:10
1To Music8:282Tarantella5:413Harvest Home, from Incidental Music for The Beggar’s Opera4:184Emblems: I. Largo3:055Emblems: II. ♩ = 768:406Emblems: III. Allegro2:507Let’s Be Gay, from Incidental Music for The Beggar’s Opera3:148Heart Not So Heavy As Mine4:289The Defense of Corinth13:2810The Harmony of Morning9:4011Musicians Wrestle Everywhere3:18Clarinet Concerto / Symphonia: Sum Fluxai Pretium Spei
1999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 1:04:37
1Clarinet Concerto: Scherzando2:132Clarinet Concerto: Deciso2:013Clarinet Concerto: Tranquillo4:004Clarinet Concerto: Presto2:075Clarinet Concerto: Largo3:016Clarinet Concerto: Giocoso3:247Clarinet Concerto: Agitato2:178Symphonia: Partita16:269Symphonia: Adagio tebebroso17:3010Symphonia: Allegro scorrevole11:38Early Chamber Music of Elliott Carter
1999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 57:10
1Pastoral for Clarinet and Piano9:272Woodwind Quintet: I. Allegretto4:053Woodwind Quintet: II. Allegro giocoso4:094Sonata for Cello and Piano: I. Moderato4:505Sonata for Cello and Piano: II. Vivace, molto leggiero5:036Sonata for Cello and Piano: III. Adagio5:477Sonata for Cello and Piano: IV. Allegro6:088Eight Etudes and a Fantasy: I. Maestoso1:089Eight Etudes and a Fantasy: II. Quietly1:0410Eight Etudes and a Fantasy: III. Adagio possibile1:1811Eight Etudes and a Fantasy: IV. Vivace1:4412Eight Etudes and a Fantasy: V. Andante1:5913Eight Etudes and a Fantasy: VI. Allegretto leggero2:2614Eight Etudes and a Fantasy: VII. Intensely1:0815Eight Etudes and a Fantasy: VIII. Presto1:3116Eight Etudes and a Fantasy: IX. Fantasy. Tempo giusto5:23Oboe Concerto / Esprit rude / Esprit doux / A Mirror on Which to Dwell / Penthode
2001 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 1:02:57
1Concerto for Oboe19:582Esprit rude / Esprit doux4:523A Mirror on Which to Dwell: Anaphora3:414A Mirror on Which to Dwell: Arugment2:255A Mirror on Which to Dwell: Sandpiper2:236A Mirror on Which to Dwell: Insomnia3:047A Mirror on Which to Dwell: View of the capitol from the Library of Congress3:038A Mirror on Which to Dwell: O Breath4:089Penthode19:23The Music of Elliott Carter, Volume Four
2001 · studio album
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Tracklist · 18 tracks · 52:51
1Shard2:442Luimen10:183Tempo e tempi: I. Tempo e tempi2:064Tempo e tempi: II. Ed è subito sera0:395Tempo e tempi: III. Òboe sommerso2:016Tempo e tempi: IV. Una columba0:447Tempo e tempi: V. Godimento1:118Tempo e tempi: VI. L'Arno a Rovezzano3:299Tempo e tempi: VII. Uno1:3410Tempo e tempi: VIII. Segreto del poeta3:4711Eight Pieces for Four Timpani: I. Improvisation3:0212Eight Pieces for Four Timpani: II. Saëta5:0313Eight Pieces for Four Timpani: III. Moto perpetuo1:3114Eight Pieces for Four Timpani: IV. Recitative3:2115Eight Pieces for Four Timpani: V. Canto3:0316Eight Pieces for Four Timpani: VI. March2:5117Eight Pieces for Four Timpani: VII. Adagio2:0318Eight Pieces for Four Timpani: VIII. Canaries3:242002 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 1:13:29
1Enchanted Preludes6:282Con leggerezza pensosa4:503Triple Duo20:014Gra3:505Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi5:22690+6:237Esprit rude / Esprit doux4:458Esprit rude / Esprit doux II4:019Concerto pour clarinette17:492003 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 1:00:47
1Two Diversions: 14:112Two Diversions: 23:433Piano Sonata: 1ᵉʳ mouvement10:544Piano Sonata: 2ᵉ mouvement14:10590+5:436Night Fantasies20:367Retrouvailles1:30Lauds and Lamentations: Music of Elliott Carter and Isang Yun
2003 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 1:20:28
Disc 11Oboe Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Viola and Violoncello16:452Four Lauds for Violin Solo: I. Statement: Remembering Aaron3:363Four Lauds for Violin Solo: II. Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi4:414Four Lauds for Violin Solo: III. Rhapsodic Musings2:425Four Lauds for Violin Solo: IV. Fantasy: Remembering Roger4:186A 6 Letter Letter for English Horn in F major5:047Figment for Cello Solo5:368Figment II for Cello Solo: Remembering Mr. Ives3:57Disc 21Piri for Oboe Solo14:582Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Viola and Cello: I5:453Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Viola and Cello: II8:484Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Viola and Cello: III4:18Symphony no. 1 / Piano Concerto
2004 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 1:02:39
1Holiday Overture9:442Symphony no. 1: I. Moderately, wistfully10:053Symphony no. 1: II. Slowly, gravely11:354Symphony no. 1: III. Vivaciously7:305Piano Concerto: I.10:586Piano Concerto: II.12:47The Works for String Quartet, Vol. II: Quartets 2 & 3 / Elegy
2004 · studio album
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Tracklist · 3 tracks · 44:43
1String Quartet no. 220:122String Quartet no. 320:183Elegy4:13The Works for String Quartet, Vol. I: Quartets 1 & 4
2004 · studio album
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Tracklist · 4 tracks · 1:00:01
1String Quartet no. 1: Fantasia maestoso12:412String Quartet no. 1: Allegro scorrevole12:273String Quartet no. 1: Variations13:084String Quartet no. 421:45Dialogues / Boston Concerto / Cello Concerto / ASKO Concerto
2005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 22 tracks · 1:00:57
1Dialogues13:282Boston Concerto: I. Allegro staccatissimo1:203Boston Concerto: II. Lento, teneramente1:544Boston Concerto: III. Tempo primo0:465Boston Concerto: IV. Meno mosso1:266Boston Concerto: V. Piu mosso, tempo primo0:537Boston Concerto: VI. Meno mosso1:288Boston Concerto: VII. Tempo primo1:089Boston Concerto: VIII. Lento, Sostenuto1:5010Boston Concerto: IX. Tempo Primo1:0011Boston Concerto: X. Piu mosso1:1412Boston Concerto: XI. Tempo primo1:0813Boston Concerto: XII. Maestoso - molto espressivo1:5414Boston Concerto: XIII. Tempo Primo0:4715Cello Concerto: I. Drammatico1:2716Cello Concerto: II. Allegro appassionato2:0817Cello Concerto: III. Giocoso2:3918Cello Concerto: IV. Lento3:4919Cello Concerto: V. Maestoso2:4620Cello Concerto: VI. Tranquillo3:2821Cello Concerto: VII. Allegro fantastico3:4622ASKO Concerto10:38Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit / Carter: Night Fantasies / Two Diversions / 90+
2005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 2:18:30
Disc 11Gaspard de la Nuit: I. Ondine6:472Gaspard de la Nuit: II. Le Gibet7:113Gaspard de la Nuit: III. Scarbo9:224Night Fantasies22:235Two Diversions: I4:196Two Diversions: II3:26790+5:29Disc 28Illustrated talk by Pierre-Laurent Aimard - Ravel and Carter26:459Commentaire illustré de Pierre-Laurent Aimard - Ravel et Carter25:2410Erläuterungen und klanbeispielen von Pierre-Laurent Aimard - Ravel und Carter27:24Concerto for Orchestra / Violin Concerto / Three Occasions for Orchestra
2008 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 1:03:14
1Three Occasions for Orchestra: No. 1. A Celebration of Some 100 x 150 Notes3:192Three Occasions for Orchestra: No. 2. Remembrance5:573Three Occasions for Orchestra: No. 3. Anniversary7:074Violin Concerto: I. Impulsivo -8:525Violin Concerto: II. Angosciato (violin), Tranquillo (orchestra) -8:576Violin Concerto: III. Scherzando8:087Concerto for Orchestra: Introduction: Misterioso -0:558Concerto for Orchestra: I. Allegro non troppo -4:459Concerto for Orchestra: II. Presto volando -4:1510Concerto for Orchestra: III. Maestoso -6:0011Concerto for Orchestra: IV. Allegro agitato -2:5012Concerto for Orchestra: IV. Coda: Allegro molto2:09Happy Birthday Elliott Carter! New Chamber Works
2008 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 1:02:44
1Mosaic12:022Figment IV3:153Enchanted Preludes6:194Tempo e tempi: I. Tempo e tempi2:065Tempo e tempi: II. Ed è subito sera0:466Tempo e tempi: III. Oboe sommerso1:557Tempo e tempi: IV. Una colomba0:518Tempo e tempi: V. Godimento1:079Tempo e tempi: VI. L'arno a rovezzano3:2710Tempo e tempi: VII. Uno1:2011Tempo e tempi: VIII. Segreto del poeta3:2512HBHH2:5713Two Fragments for String Quartet: Fragment no. 1 [1994]3:4114Two Fragments for String Quartet: Fragment no. 2 [1999]3:4115Oboe Quartet15:522008 · studio album
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Tracklist · 17 tracks · 1:00:31
1String Quartet no. 1: I. Fantasia: Maestoso9:062String Quartet no. 1: Allegro scorrevole3:283String Quartet no. 1: II. Allegro scorrevole1:194String Quartet no. 1: Adagio11:585String Quartet no. 1: III. Variations13:346String Quartet no. 5: Introduction1:247String Quartet no. 5: Giocoso2:318String Quartet no. 5: Interlude I1:059String Quartet no. 5: Lento espressivo2:1210String Quartet no. 5: Interlude II1:2211String Quartet no. 5: Presto scorrevole1:0712String Quartet no. 5: Interlude III1:2913String Quartet no. 5: Allegro energico1:5314String Quartet no. 5: Interlude IV1:5915String Quartet no. 5: Adagio sereno2:4716String Quartet no. 5: Interlude V1:3917String Quartet no. 5: Capriccioso1:382008 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 1:10:07
190+4:552Retrouvailles1:383Night Fantasies19:484Two Diversions: I.4:035Two Diversions: II.3:216Matribute2:057Piano Sonata: I. Maestoso; Legato scorrevole10:228Piano Sonata: II. Andante13:039Two Thoughts About the Piano: Intermittences7:0410Two Thoughts About the Piano: Caténaires3:48Elliot Carter: 100th Anniversary Release
2008 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 1:04:48
1Mosaic12:002Scrivo in vento5:403Gra4:234Enchanted Preludes6:055Steep Steps2:446Figment no. 16:207Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi5:598Figment no. 2 "Remembering Mr. Ives"4:049Rhapsodic Musings3:1910Dialogues14:14String Quartets nos. 2, 3 and 4
2009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 19 tracks · 1:14:16
1String Quartet no. 2: Introduction1:182String Quartet no. 2: I. Allegro fantastico3:043String Quartet no. 2: Cadenza for Viola1:544String Quartet no. 2: II. Presto scherzando2:205String Quartet no. 2: Cadanza for Cello2:106String Quartet no. 2: III. Andante espressivo5:107String Quartet no. 2: Cadanza for Violin I1:558String Quartet no. 2: IV. Allegro5:229String Quartet no. 2: Conclusion1:2310String Quartet no. 3: Duo II: Maestoso (Giusto tempo) - Grazioso - Giusto, meccanico / Duo I: Furioso (Quasi rabato sempre) - Leggerissimo - Andante espressivo4:3111String Quartet no. 3: Duo II: Giusto, meccanico (cont.) - Scorrevole / Duo I: Giocoso2:1812String Quartet no. 3: Duo II: Scorrevole (cont.) - Giusto, meccanico, grazioso / Duo I: Leggerissimo - Furioso2:4913String Quartet no. 3: Duo II: Grazioso (cont.) - Maestoso / Duo I: Giocoso - Andante espressivo2:4114String Quartet no. 3: Duo II: Largo tranquillo - Appassionato - Largo tranquillo / Duo I: Andante espressivo (cont.) - Leggerissimo - Giocoso - Furioso5:2815String Quartet no. 3: Duo II: Scorrevole - Appassionato / Duo I: Furioso (cont.) - Andante espressivo - Furioso - Coda4:0516String Quartet no. 4: Appassionato7:2417String Quartet no. 4: Scherzando (stesso tempo)6:3118String Quartet no. 4: Lento (stesso tempo)6:4919String Quartet no. 4: Presto7:042009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 58:44
1Tarantella5:362Let’s be Gay3:103Emblems: No. 1. Maryland, Virginia, Caroline3:444Emblems: No. 2. When it is all over9:445Emblems: No. 3. By the great river3:016Heart not so heavy as mine5:147Musicians Wrestle Everywhere3:198To Music7:589The Defense of Corinth13:1910Harvest Home3:39American Music for Percussion • 2
2011 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 50:24
1Tintinnabulation8:042Refrain9:483Acid Rain9:034Cortège: Risoluto4:365Cortège: Allegro3:316Cortège: Lento3:307The First Voices11:522014 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 1:07:52
1Duo for Violin and Piano21:562Sonata for Solo Violin: 1. Tempo moderato, con ampiezza, e liberamente10:533Sonata for Solo Violin: 2. Molto vivo6:574Sonata for Solo Violin: 3. Adagio e dolcemente10:225Sonata for Solo Violin: 4. Alla marcia vivace4:536Strömkarl12:512017 · studio album
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Tracklist · 20 tracks · 1:14:42
1Interventions17:102Dialogues13:063Dialogues II4:314Soundings8:1352 Controversies and a Conversation: No. 1, Controversy I1:4562 Controversies and a Conversation: No. 2, Controversy II1:5672 Controversies and a Conversation: No. 3, Conversation6:468Instances7:129Epigrams: I.1:0910Epigrams: II.1:4011Epigrams: III.0:5712Epigrams: IV.1:1713Epigrams: V.1:1214Epigrams: VI.0:4915Epigrams: VII.1:0116Epigrams: VIII.0:4417Epigrams: IX.0:5918Epigrams: X.1:2819Epigrams: XI.1:1720Epigrams: XII.1:30Carter: Variations for Orchestra / Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano
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Tracklist · 4 tracks · 49:43
A1Variations for Orchestra25:38B1Double Concerto for Harpsichord & Piano: I. Introduction - II. Cadenza for Harpsichord6:24B2Double Concerto for Harpsichord & Piano: III. Allegro scherzando - IV. Adagio - V. Presto - VI. Cadenza for Piano14:50B3Double Concerto for Harpsichord & Piano: VII. Coda2:51— · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 2:15:17
1Fragment II4:312Quintet for Piano & Strings14:563Syringa19:114Tempo e tempi: Tempo e tempi2:015Tempo e tempi: Ed è subito sera0:396Tempo e tempi: Òboe sommerso1:567Tempo e tempi: Una colomba0:598Tempo e tempi: Godimento1:069Tempo e tempi: L'Arno a Rovezzano3:4410Tempo e tempi: Uno1:3011Tempo e tempi: Segreto del poeta4:0512Quintet for Piano & Winds22:0813Retrouvailles1:5114Quintet for Piano & Strings16:3815[interview]40:02Elliott Carter: Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harpsichord / Sonata for Cello & Piano
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 36:23
A1Sonata For Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harpsichord: 1. Risoluto3:15A2Sonata For Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harpsichord: 2. Lento6:30A3Sonata For Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harpsichord: 3. Allegro5:25B1Sonata For Cello & Piano: 1. Moderato5:08B2Sonata For Cello & Piano: 2. Vivace, Molto Leggiero4:30B3Sonata For Cello & Piano: 3. Adagio6:10B4Sonata For Cello & Piano: 4. Allegro5:25
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| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
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| 1990 | Bach / CarterSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 10 tracks · 54:501Suite Nr. 3 in C-Dur für Violoncello Solo, BWV 1009: I. Prélude3:09 2Suite Nr. 3 in C-Dur für Violoncello Solo, BWV 1009: II. Allemande3:57 3Suite Nr. 3 in C-Dur für Violoncello Solo, BWV 1009: III. Courante2:54 4Suite Nr. 3 in C-Dur für Violoncello Solo, BWV 1009: IV. Sarabande3:11 5Suite Nr. 3 in C-Dur für Violoncello Solo, BWV 1009: V. Bourrée I & II3:09 6Suite Nr. 3 in C-Dur für Violoncello Solo, BWV 1009: VI. Gigue3:18 7Esprit rude / Esprit doux4:46 8Enchanted Preludes6:21 9Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi4:25 10Triple Duo19:40 | Compilation | 1990 | |
| 1991 | Holiday Overture / Suite From Pocahontas / SyringaSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 7 tracks · 49:201Holiday Overture9:20 2Suite From Pocahontas: I. Overture1:35 3Suite From Pocahontas: II. John Smith and Rolfe Lost in the Virginia Forest3:18 4Suite From Pocahontas: III. Princess Pocahontas and Her Ladies3:59 5Suite From Pocahontas: IV. Torture of John Smith6:35 6Suite From Pocahontas: V. Pavane - Farewell of Pocahontas4:32 7Syringa20:01 | Compilation | 1991 | |
| 1992 | Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harpsichord / Cello Sonata / Double ConcertoSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 14 tracks · 59:391Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harpsichord: I. Risoluto3:20 2Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harpsichord: II. Lento6:35 3Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harpsichord: III. Allegro5:30 4Sonata for Cello & Piano: I. Moderato5:12 5Sonata for Cello & Piano: II. Vivace, molto leggiero4:35 6Sonata for Cello & Piano: III. Adagio6:12 7Sonata for Cello & Piano: IV. Allegro5:37 8Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano: I. Introduction4:08 9Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano: II. Cadenza for Harpsichord1:57 10Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano: III. Allegro scherzando4:59 11Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano: IV. Adagio5:04 12Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano: V. Presto1:11 13Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano: VI. Cadenzas for Piano2:40 14Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano: VII. Coda2:39 | Compilation | 1992 | |
| 2003 | AnglosaxSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 20 tracks · 1:11:151Lessons of the Sky8:41 2Six Studies in English Folksong: I. Adagio1:28 3Six Studies in English Folksong: II. Andante sostenuto1:21 4Six Studies in English Folksong: III. Larghetto1:19 5Six Studies in English Folksong: IV. Lento1:41 6Six Studies in English Folksong: V. Andante tranquillo1:43 7Six Studies in English Folksong: VI. Allegro vivace0:56 8Keening12:16 9Pastoral9:21 10Picnic on the Marne: Driving From Paris1:25 11Picnic on the Marne: A Bend in the River2:48 12Picnic on the Marne: Bal musette1:45 13Picnic on the Marne: Vermouth1:26 14Picnic on the Marne: A Tense Discussion2:39 15Picnic on the Marne: Making Up1:17 16Picnic on the Marne: The Ride Back to Town2:41 17Come Down Heavy: Steel Drivin’ Man5:18 18Come Down Heavy: I Gave My Love a Cherry5:10 19Come Down Heavy: Oh, Lovely Appearance of Death2:39 20Come Down Heavy: Drill Ye Tarriers5:21 | Compilation | 2003 | |
| 2009 | A Nonesuch RetrospectiveSearch SpotifySearch YouTube Music | Compilation | 24 February 2009 | |
| 2013 | Carter: Variations for Orchestra, Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano / Piano ConcertoSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 6 tracks · 1:16:041Variations for Orchestra25:38 2Double Concerto for Harpsichord & Piano: I. Introduction - II. Cadenza for Harpsichord6:24 3Double Concerto for Harpsichord & Piano: III. Allegro scherzando - IV. Adagio - V. Presto - VI. Cadenza for Piano14:50 4Double Concerto for Harpsichord & Piano: VII. Coda2:51 5Piano Concerto: I. Fantástico11:32 6Piano Concerto: II. Molto giusto14:49 | Compilation | 3 May 2013 | |
| 2014 | The Five String QuartetsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 36 tracks · 2:17:26Disc 1 1String Quartet no. 1: I. Fantasia: Maestoso9:32 2String Quartet no. 1: Allegro scorrevole3:43 3String Quartet no. 1: II. Allegro scorrevole1:18 4String Quartet no. 1: Adagio variations12:14 5String Quartet no. 1: III. Variations15:14 6String Quartet no. 2: Introduction1:16 7String Quartet no. 2: I. Allegro fantastico3:01 8String Quartet no. 2: Cadenza for Viola1:33 9String Quartet no. 2: II. Presto scherzando2:19 10String Quartet no. 2: Cadenza for Cello2:18 11String Quartet no. 2: III. Andante espressivo4:32 12String Quartet no. 2: Cadenza for Violin I1:54 13String Quartet no. 2: IV. Allegro5:06 14String Quartet no. 2: Conclusion1:23 Disc 21String Quartet no. 3: I. Duo II (left channel) - Maestoso, Duo I (right channel) - Furioso4:16 2String Quartet no. 3: II. Duo II (left channel) - Giusto, Duo I (right channel) - Giocoso2:09 3String Quartet no. 3: III. Duo II (left channel) - Scorrevole, Duo I (right channel) - Leggerissimo2:46 4String Quartet no. 3: IV. Duo II (left channel) - Grazioso, Duo I (right channel) - Giocoso2:34 5String Quartet no. 3: V. Duo II (left channel) - Largo tranquillo, Duo I (right channel) - Andante espressivo5:20 6String Quartet no. 3: VI. Duo II (left channel) - Scorrevole, Duo I (right channel) - Furioso4:15 7String Quartet no. 4: Appassionato7:15 8String Quartet no. 4: Scherzando6:39 9String Quartet no. 4: Lento7:39 10String Quartet no. 4: Presto7:27 11String Quartet no. 5: Introduction1:21 12String Quartet no. 5: Giocoso2:36 13String Quartet no. 5: Interlude I1:22 14String Quartet no. 5: Lento espressivo2:04 15String Quartet no. 5: Interlude II1:17 16String Quartet no. 5: Presto scorrevole1:20 17String Quartet no. 5: Interlude III1:31 18String Quartet no. 5: Allegro energico1:55 19String Quartet no. 5: Interlude IV2:08 20String Quartet no. 5: Adagio sereno2:59 21String Quartet no. 5: Interlude V1:24 22String Quartet no. 5: Capriccioso1:46 | Compilation | 29 April 2014 | |
| 2018 | Hard CoreSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 17 tracks · 1:05:271Le Marteau sans maître: No. 1. Avant l'artisanat furieux1:46 2Le Marteau sans maître: No. 2. Commentaire I de bourreaux de solitude4:02 3Le Marteau sans maître: No. 3. L'artisanat furieux2:44 4Le Marteau sans maître: No. 4. Commentaire II de bourreaux de solitude4:07 5Le Marteau sans maître: No. 5. Bel édifice et les pressentiments3:34 6Le Marteau sans maître: No. 6. Bourreaux de solitude4:27 7Le Marteau sans maître: No. 7. Après l'artisanat furieux1:03 8Le Marteau sans maître: No. 8. Commentaire III de bourreaux de solitude5:24 9Le Marteau sans maître: No. 9. Bel édifice et les pressentiments, double8:40 10Aphorismen: I1:00 11Aphorismen: II1:21 12Aphorismen: III0:44 13Aphorismen: IV2:32 14Aphorismen: V0:53 15Aphorismen: VI1:29 16Aphorismen: VII0:56 17Triple Duo20:45 | Live | 2018 |
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| — | The MinotaurSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 21 tracks · 1:01:581The Minotaur - Scene I - Overture1:00 2The Minotaur - Scene I - Queen Pasiphae3:49 3The Minotaur - Scene I - Entrance of the Bulls0:38 4The Minotaur - Scene I - Dance of the Bulls2:37 5The Minotaur - Scene I - Interlude1:18 6The Minotaur - Scene II - Building the Labyrinth2:00 7The Minotaur - Scene II - Entrance of King Minos1:44 8The Minotaur - Scene II - Selection of Greek Victims1:08 9The Minotaur - Scene II - Ariadne4:26 10The Minotaur - Scene II - Greek Victims Driven into the Labyrinth1:40 11The Minotaur - Scene II - Theseus' Farewell to Ariadne1:54 12The Minotaur - Scene II - Ariadne Unwinds Her Thread1:20 13The Minotaur - Scene II - Theseus Kills the Minotaur1:14 14The Minotaur - Scene II - Ariadne Rewinds the Tread1:56 15The Minotaur - Scene II - The Thread Breaks1:32 16The Minotaur - Scene II - Theseus Emerges1:04 17The Minotaur - Scene II - Theseus Leaves Crete3:39 18Dust of Snow1:09 19The Rose Family1:17 20Piano Sonata - Maestoso11:32 21Piano Sonata - Andante15:01 | — |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Elliott Carter head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 26 | 87.5th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 47 | 93.9th |
| Studio albums | 38 | 98.8th |
| Awards recorded | 14 | 99.2th |
| Timeline events | 47 | 98.7th |
| Recording span (years) | 51 | 91.8th |
| Genres | 7 | 93th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | Guggenheim Fellowship | won | |
| 1950 | Arts and Letters Award in Music | won | |
| 1950 | Guggenheim Fellowship | won | |
| 1960 | Pulitzer Prize for Music | won | |
| 1981 | Ernst von Siemens Music Prize | won | |
| 1985 | National Medal of Arts | won | |
| 1995 | Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal | won | |
| 1997 | Royal Philharmonic Society Award (Chamber-Scale Composition) | won | |
| 2009 | Grammy Trustees Award | won | |
| — | Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres | won | |
| — | Harvard Centennial Medal | won | |
| — | Honorary Member of the International Society for Contemporary Music | won | |
| — | Rome Prize | won | |
| — | Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards | won |
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