Carter: Conversations (2010)

Elliott Carter's recent piece for piano, percussion, and chamber orchestra in its world première, given at this year's Aldeburgh Festival by Oliver Knussen and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group with Colin Currie on percussion and Pierre-Laurent Aimard at piano.

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Music

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• elliott carter
• conversations
• chamber music
• contemporary music
• new music

[AfroDeezeeYak]

@muslit What about it doesn't surprised you? What would it need to for you to have had found it surprising?

[muhtimin]

i wouldn't blame anyone for not liking this music, or even hating it. but saying it "stinks" does make you sound like a spoiled brat, though. not saying you are, but that's how you come off saying things like that. there have been times when people, myself included, had to wait years just to get to hear a piece even once. now people just stumble through the music on the internet and say it "stinks". still, i do think it shows good character to occasionally listen to composers you don't fancy.

[muslit]

@AfroDeezeeYak to see if i might be surprised -

i wasn't -

it happened with babbitt a few times

[AfroDeezeeYak]

@muslit Then why listen to it? You're familiar with Carter's works, have made up your mind that you don't like the composer, yet you decide to spend your time looking up his music and actively condemning it?

[muslit]

@AfroDeezeeYak blah blah blah - the piece stinks

[AfroDeezeeYak]

@muslit Sounds like you're an uninteresting person.

[miker2001]

To me, it sounds more Boulezian than Cartesian. 

[muslit]

carter could never sustain interest in a piece of music -

[LesbianStraightGay]

I didn't expect that at such an age (over 100 ) Carter is still very capable of composing interesting things.

[galas062]

thank you!