general information

composition date
2011
duration
11 min
editor
Boosey & Hawkes
Commission
New York Philharmonic, Aldeburgh Festival et Radio France

type

Concertant music (2 various soloists and ensemble/orchestra)

detailed formation

flute (also piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (also Eb clarinet, bass clarinet), bassoon, horn, 2 trumpets, trombone, 2 violins, 2 second violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, 2 double basses [nombre de cordes minimum]

information about the creation

date
June 8, 2012

États-Unis, New York, Metropolitan Museum

interpreters

Colin Currie : percussion, Eric Huebner : piano, New York Philharmonic : David Robertson.

Program note

After the premiere of Conversations at the Aldeburgh Festival in June of 2011 Oliver Knussen suggested that I expand this piece. I decided to add two more movements, which became the two controversies. The first of the two controversies has the percussion in the leading role and the second features the piano which ends the movement in a flourish.



Elliott Carter.

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