Elliott Carter

Study Score-The Concerto for Orchestra consists of four separate ensembles using four distinct styles of music. This work exploits the small scale tactics of the string quartets in a much larger and timbrally and texturally diverse ensemble adding an even more complex and intense aspect to Carter's stylistic traits.

Score-Born in New York City on 11 December 1908 Elliott Carter began to be seriously interested in music in high school and was encouraged at that time by Charles Ives. He attended Harvard University where he studied with Walter Piston and later went to Paris where for three years he studied with Nadia Boulanger. He then returned to New York to devote his time to composing and teaching.With the explorations of tempo relationships and texture that characterize his music Carter has been one of the prime innovators of 20th-century music. The challenges of works such as the Symphony Of Three Orchestras are richly rewarding.

In 2012, the American composer Elliott Carter died at the ripe old age of almost 104. To the last, he devoted his time to composing. Instances is the last orchestral work written by the two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. / Orchestre

A miniature gem for Three Trumpets and Vibraphone (Chimes) from the dean of American composers.

Score-Symphony no. 1 (1942) reflects the neo-classical influences of studies with Walter Piston and Gustav Holst at Harvard (1926-32) and with Stravinskian disciple and master pedagogue Nadia Boulanger in Paris.