Elliott Carter Oboe Concerto (Part 1) - Nicholas Daniel / David Robertson / BBC Symphony Orchestra

Nicholas Daniel performs Elliott Carter Oboe Concerto on 10th August 2008 at the BBC Proms with Conductor David Robertson and BBC Symphony Orchestra

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• carter
• oboe
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• orchestra

[Curetiamhices]

finally! a composer that lets the Oboe shine!!!! not saying that Mozart's writing was bad.. but no one ever wrote like paganini for the oboe!

[hizzogg]

What an amazing performance! Thank you so much for posting this.

[kallb3rg]

Carter intended it this way: being able to SEE the performer. Audio by itself is useless. He was born in 1908, people!

[muslit]

another bore by carter

[AfroDeezeeYak]

@blueyedboy84 A "trained" composer who doesn't understand the inherent parameters for writing serial music and thinks that it is merely arbitrary?

I'd be surprised if you even had any sort of mastery over diatonic tonality, let alone non-serial atonal music.

[zachbernst]

@blueyedboy84 You're 'trained'? Then perhaps you can demonstrate serial structure in Carter for me. He has used twelve-pitch-class simultaneities (particularly those that contain a different interval between each adjacent dyad), but these aren't related by the normal serial operations. Nor can his rhythms be explained (as far as I know) by some sort of analogue of the pitch-class twelve-tone system. Am I missing something?

[aculturemind]

@pwebsers

Check out the Carter documentary (it's round here...) called Music in Time. Just as Beethoven, and Brahms, and Ravel, and Schoenberg heard images in their mind's eye - so does Carter. These pieces are the result. I have always 'seen' musical imagery. Whether it's Hall and Oats, Alabama, Suffocation, or Carter.....

[ronoman88]

A fantastic Oboe player. A great piece. Thank God for You Tube!!!

[xatzidakis]

Very interesting interpretation of what's ''sound'',about how you should approach an orchestral colour.With respect but also with nerve!:)

[djjjamin]

@saotomi5102 hey. U know why music is so amazing? Everyone has their own interpretation of it and it can have such a different effect depending on how u listen to it. I would suggest listening to it in any damn way u feel like. Awesome piece tho, i don understand why people don't like it. I didn't even know it was atonal at first cause everything makes musical sense to me

[saotomi5102]

@pwebsers Don't think of it like that. Music, especially Carter's was never about proving one's self. Think of it as this: Sometime minor chords aren't sad enough, or major chords aren't happy. Don't listen to this for it's purpose and technique, but rather its emotion. What does each section sound like and how does it make you feel?

[pwebsers]

excellent playing on daniel's part, but...UGH.

Now, I guess I don't have the same taste in music as most modern composers, but I like my music to sound good as well as having an appreciation for the skill required to play it.

It seems modern composer's feel like they need to distinguish themselves by writing atonal, arhymic music. It's not so. Look up "Three Moods for Wind Quintet," that's a piece of music written recently that sounds beautiful and requires extreme skill to play.