Elliott Carter: Quintets and Voices

Starring:Carter, Oppens, Shelton, Asbury, Milarsky
Studio: MODE
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Description
An American master in 24-bit, 96khz sound, available on both CD and DVD.

Released to celebrate the 95th birthday of Elliott Carter this year - an amazing figure who remains one of America's most active and vital composers. This collection combines two of his quintets with two major works for voice(s) and ensemble, and two recent, extraordinary miniatures.

SPECIAL FEATURES:
* The recordings were made by artists who have had a long association with Carter's music.

* Elliott Carter supervised all of the recordings.

* The Quintet for Piano & Strings was recorded by its dedicatees immediately after its premiere tour.

* Fragment II was specially written for The Arditti Quartet as a gift by Carter in honor of their winning the prestigious Siemens Prize.

* Liner notes by Carter specialist Paul Griffiths. * Debut recording of one of New York's finest new music groups, Ensemble Sospeso. ADDITIONAL DVD-VERSION FEATURES:

* First release of acclaimed Dutch director Frank Scheffer's film of the Quintet for Piano & Strings, as performed by Ursula Oppens and The Arditti Quartet.

* 40-minute video interview with Elliott Carter, Irvine Arditti and Ursula Oppens in conversation with Ensemble Sospeso's Joshua Cody, directed by Tim Chu.

Description

An American master in 24-bit, 96khz sound, available on both CD and DVD.

SPECIAL FEATURES:
* The recordings were made by artists who have had a long association with Carter's music.

* Elliott Carter supervised all of the recordings.

* The Quintet for Piano & Strings was recorded by its dedicatees immediately after its premiere tour.

* Fragment II was specially written for The Arditti Quartet as a gift by Carter in honor of their winning the prestigious Siemens Prize.

* Liner notes by Carter specialist Paul Griffiths. * Debut recording of one of New York's finest new music groups, Ensemble Sospeso. ADDITIONAL DVD-VERSION FEATURES:

* First release of acclaimed Dutch director Frank Scheffer's film of the Quintet for Piano & Strings, as performed by Ursula Oppens and The Arditti Quartet.

* 40-minute video interview with Elliott Carter, Irvine Arditti and Ursula Oppens in conversation with Ensemble Sospeso's Joshua Cody, directed by Tim Chu.

* Contains all of the music in uncompressed 24-bit PCM sound (playable on all DVD players).

Customer Reviews:

Excellent portrait of a great artist........2006-05-08

Mode Records is giving to us a series of recordings of contemporary music of the highest level. This new DVD is another example of this.

We have here chamber works, some of them with voice, in outstanding performances. I knew some of the works played by the Arditti Quartet and Ursula Oppens in them recording for Montaigne Disques; this is so good like that, but even better recorded, but with the very interesting couple of Frank Scheffer's documentary about Carter, which I watched in ARTE TV some months ago. A really work of art by one of the best music documentary directors in the world, who shows Carter as a person, as the human being he is in his nowadays living, his relation with art and music, the playing of the musicians, the performers opinions on Carter's music, his context in NY, etc. A wonderful document to know better this very important man in the XXth Century American music and culture.

The sound is really wonderful.

The interviews are very, very interesting, and the booklet notes really very good.

A DVD for not to be missed. A jewel about modern music.

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