Carter, Elliott: Boston Concerto (2002) 19'
for orchestra
Scoring
3(II,III=picc).2.corA.3(III=bcl).3(III=dbn)-4.3.3.1-perc(3):xyl/vib/log dr/4bongos/high SD/susp.cym/wood chime;mar/log dr/4tpl.bl/2cowbells/susp.cym; BD/tom-t/4wdbls/guiro/susp.cym/maracas/med SD-harp-pft-strings
World Premiere
4/3/2003
Symphony Hall, Boston, Massachusetts
Boston Symphony Orchestra / Ingo Metzmacher
Programme Note
Coming so soon after the Symphonia — and from a composer now in his nineties — this was an extraordinary flourish of orchestral rejuvenation. The pattern is similar to that of the intervening ASKO Concerto: music of one kind, often using rather full resources, is interleaved with episodes of different sorts for different ensembles. Among the latter are inventions for flutes plus clarinets and for single reeds, a slowly revolving brass object and a passionate strain from strings. The abiding spirit, however, is that of the rapid, shimmering main music — rain music, recalling a poem by William Carlos Williams in which love is seen, like showers, to “bathe every open object of the world.” Writing to a commission from the Boston Symphony, Carter fittingly dedicated the score to his wife, Helen.
- Programme note by Paul Griffiths
Reproduction Rights:
This programme note can be reproduced free of charge in concert programmes with a credit to the author.
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Recommended Recording
Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 7
Dialogues / Boston Concerto / Cello Concerto / ASKO Concerto.
Bridge 9184Carter in London: Boston Concerto at BBC Proms
Carter orchestral premieres in Boston and Chicago
for orchestra
Scoring
3(II,III=picc).2.corA.3(III=bcl).3(III=dbn)-4.3.3.1-perc(3):xyl/vib/log dr/4bongos/high SD/susp.cym/wood chime;mar/log dr/4tpl.bl/2cowbells/susp.cym; BD/tom-t/4wdbls/guiro/susp.cym/maracas/med SD-harp-pft-strings
World Premiere
4/3/2003
Symphony Hall, Boston, Massachusetts
Boston Symphony Orchestra / Ingo Metzmacher
Programme Note
Coming so soon after the Symphonia — and from a composer now in his nineties — this was an extraordinary flourish of orchestral rejuvenation. The pattern is similar to that of the intervening ASKO Concerto: music of one kind, often using rather full resources, is interleaved with episodes of different sorts for different ensembles. Among the latter are inventions for flutes plus clarinets and for single reeds, a slowly revolving brass object and a passionate strain from strings. The abiding spirit, however, is that of the rapid, shimmering main music — rain music, recalling a poem by William Carlos Williams in which love is seen, like showers, to “bathe every open object of the world.” Writing to a commission from the Boston Symphony, Carter fittingly dedicated the score to his wife, Helen.
- Programme note by Paul Griffiths
Reproduction Rights:
This programme note can be reproduced free of charge in concert programmes with a credit to the author.
Press Quotes Deutsch
Recommended Recording
Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 7
Dialogues / Boston Concerto / Cello Concerto / ASKO Concerto.
Bridge 9184
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