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Elliott Carter
voc, 1908-2012 US, New York City
Singer / Composer of Classical
A.k.a. Elliott Carter, Jr.
Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. (December 11, 1908 – November 5, 2012) was an American composer who was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, then returned to the United States. After an early neoclassical phase, his style shifted to an emphasis on atonality and rhythmic complexity. His compositions are known and performed throughout the world; they include orchestral, chamber music, solo instrumental, and vocal works.
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Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Late Works | Elliott Carter - Pierre-Laurent Aimard / Colin Currie | 2017 | Album |
| Invisible Colors | Miranda Cuckson, Stefan Wolpe, Elliott Carter, Brian Ferneyhough | 2017 | Album |
| Caprices | Irvine Arditti, Salvatore Sciarrino, Elliott Carter, Emmanuel Nunes, Pierre Boulez | 2017 | Album |
| Canon, Fragment & Suite | Noël Akchoté, Elliott Carter | 2016 | Album |
| To Music | Noël Akchoté, Elliott Carter | 2016 | Album |
| Kreisleriana / Night Fantasies / Trois Mouvements De Pétroushka | Robert Schumann / Elliott Carter / Igor Stravinsky - Eric Huebner | 2015 | Album |
| Angelorum Psalat Tripudium / String Quartet No 3 / String Quartet / String Quartet No 8 | The JACK Quartet - Rodericus / Elliott Carter / Ruth Crawford Seeger / Georg Friedrich Haas | 2015 | Album |
| The Five String Quartets | Elliott Carter / Juilliard String Quartet | 2014 | Album |
| Symphony No. 2 / Instances / An American In Paris | Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Ludovic Morlot - Charles Ives / Elliott Carter / George Gershwin | 2014 | Album |
| Cello Concerto | Sir Edward Elgar, Elliott Carter, Alisa Weilerstein, Daniel Barenboim, Staatskapelle Berlin | 2012 | Album |
| American Clarinet Concertos | John Corigliano, Elliott Carter, Eddy Vanoosthuyse | 2012 | Album |
| Carter: Concerto For Orchestra / Knussen: Océan de terre | Elliott Carter - Oliver Knussen, London Sinfonietta | 2011 | Compil. |
| Contrechant (Music For Clarinet Solo) | Reto Bieri - Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter, Peter Eötvös, Heinz Holliger, Salvatore Sciarrino, Gergely Vajda | 2011 | Album |
| Sheer Pluck | Todd Seelye - Luciano Berio, Ursula Mamlok, James Dillon, Milton Babbitt, Charles Wuorinen, Elliott Carter, Robert Morris | 2011 | Album |
| Wanted | Håkon Austbø, Pierre Boulez, Elliott Carter, Asbjørn Schaathun | 2011 | Album |
| Musica Viva 18 | Elliott Carter • Udo Zimmermann | 2010 | Album |
| The Music Of Elliott Carter Volume Eight - 16 Compositions (2002-2009) | Elliott Carter | 2010 | Album |
| A Nonesuch Retrospective | Elliott Carter | 2009 | Compil. |
| Boulez Conducts Webern, Carter, Varèse, Berio | Pierre Boulez - Anton Webern, Elliott Carter, Edgard Varèse, Luciano Berio - Ensemble Intercontemporain, The New York Philharmonic Orchestra, The London Symphony Orchestra | 2009 | Compil. |
| String Quartets Nos. 2, 3 And 4 | Elliott Carter - Pacifica Quartet | 2009 | Album |
| Choral Works | Elliott Carter - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Marcus Creed | 2009 | Album |
| Rhapsodic Musings: 21st Century Works For Solo Violin | Jennifer Koh - Elliott Carter, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Augusta Read Thomas, John Zorn | 2009 | Album |
| 100th Anniversary Release - Mosaic / Dialogues | Elliott Carter, New Music Concerts Ensemble, Robert Aitken | 2008 | Album |
| String Quartets Nos. 1 And 5 | Elliott Carter, Pacifica Quartet | 2008 | Album |
| Elliott Carter At 100 - The Complete Piano Music | Ursula Oppens Plays Elliott Carter | 2008 | Album |
| Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter! - New Chamber Works | Elliott Carter - Swiss Chamber Soloists | 2008 | Album |
| Changes Chances | John Cage - Elliott Carter - Terry Riley / Elena Casoli | 2006 | Album |
| La Musique Américaine De Piano Au XXᴱ Siècle - Volume 2 | Aaron Copland / Roger Sessions / Elliott Carter / Noël Lee | 2006 | Album |
| Orchestral Works | Elliott Carter - Sinfonieorchester Des Südwestfunks, Michael Gielen, Ursula Oppens | 2005 | Album |
| String Quartets 1-4, Elegy | Elliott Carter - Arditti Quartet | 2005 | Album |
| Dialogues / Boston Concerto / Cello Concerto / Asko Concerto | Elliott Carter – Nicolas Hodges / Fred Sherry, London Sinfonietta / BBC Symphony Orchestra / Asko Ensemble – Oliver Knussen | 2005 | Album |
| The Music Of Elliott Carter Volume Six - Violin Concerto, Four Lauds, Holiday Overture | Elliott Carter | 2005 | Album |
| Oeuvres Avec Violoncelle | Elliott Carter - Alexis Descharmes | 2004 | Album |
| Symphony No. 1 • Piano Concerto | Elliott Carter, Mark Wait, Nashville Symphony Orchestra • Kenneth Schermerhorn | 2004 | Album |
| Quintets and Voices | Elliott Carter | 2003 | Album |
| The Music Of Elliott Carter Volume Five - Nine Compositions (1994 - 2002) | Elliott Carter | 2003 | Album |
| American Music | Leonard Bernstein / Henry Cowell / Richard Felciano / Aaron Copland / John Cage / Elliott Carter / Philip Glass - Béatrice Berne, Laurent Martin | 2003 | Album |
| Piano Works | Elliott Carter - Winston Choï | 2003 | Album |
| What Next? | Elliott Carter, Paul Griffiths, Peter Eötvös | 2003 | Album |
| Enchanted Preludes Etc. | Elliott Carter - Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Lorraine Vaillancourt | 2002 | Album |
| 20th Century Classics 1 | Alban Berg • Karl Amadeus Hartmann • Leoš Janáček • Luigi Dallapiccola • Luciano Berio • Elliott Carter | 2002 | Compil. |
| Composizioni Per Strumenti A Fiato | Elliott Carter / György Ligeti / György Kurtág / Franco Donatoni | 2002 | Album |
| Shard / Luimen / Tempo E Tempi / Eight Pieces For Four Timpani | Elliott Carter - Speculum Musicae, Susan Narucki, Daniel Druckman | 2001 | Album |
| Sonates Pour Piano | Claire-Marie Le Guay, Henri Dutilleux, Béla Bartók, Elliott Carter | 2000 | Album |
| Music Of Elliott Carter | Elliott Carter | 1999 | Album |
| American Clarinet | Elliott Carter - Steve Reich - Howard Sandroff - John Adams / Alain Damiens - André Trouttet - Ensemble Intercontemporain - David Robertson | 1999 | Album |
| Symphonia - Clarinet Concerto | Elliott Carter : Michael Collins / London Sinfonietta - BBC Symphony Orchestra / Oliver Knussen | 1999 | Album |
| Night Fantasies | Florence Millet, Elliott Carter | 1998 | Album |
| The Unanswered Question / Holidays / Concerto For Orchestra | Charles Ives · Elliott Carter · Leonard Bernstein, The New York Philharmonic Orchestra | 1998 | Compil. |
| Chamber Music | Elliott Carter - Ursula Oppens, Arditti Quartet | 1998 | Album |
| The John Oliver Chorale Sings Elliott Carter | Elliott Carter - John Oliver Chorale - John Oliver | 1998 | Album |
| The Complete Music For Piano | Elliott Carter, Charles Rosen | 1997 | Album |
| Pour L'ensemble | Pierre Boulez, Franco Donatoni, Elliott Carter, Gérard Grisey - Ensemble Intercontemporain | 1996 | Compil. |
| Partita · Continuo · Visions | Elliott Carter / Luciano Berio / Toru Takemitsu - The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim | 1995 | Album |
| A Symphony Of Three Orchestras / Déserts · Ecuatorial · Hyperprism | Elliott Carter / Edgard Varèse - Pierre Boulez, The New York Philharmonic Orchestra | 1995 | Compil. |
| Orchestral Music | Elliott Carter - Sinfonieorchester Des Südwestfunks, Michael Gielen, Ursula Oppens | 1995 | Album |
| Eight Compositions (1948-1993) | Elliott Carter, The Group For Contemporary Music | 1994 | Album |
| Sonata For Cello And Piano / Sonata In G Minor, Op. 19 | Elliott Carter, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Evelyne Brancart, Anthony Ross | 1994 | Album |
| Emblems · Heart Not So Heavy As Mine · The Harmony Of Morning · Musicians Wrestle Everywhere / Two Folk Songs From Chinhai | Elliott Carter / Bright Sheng - John Oliver Chorale, John Oliver | 1994 | Album |
| Variations For Orchestra / Spectra / Correspondences / Atlas Eclipticalis | John Cage · Elliott Carter · Milton Babbitt · Gunther Schuller - The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, James Levine | 1994 | Album |
| American Music For Viola & Piano | George Rochberg, Paul Creston, Bernhard Heiden, Elliott Carter - Lawrence Wheeler, Betty Ruth Tomfohrde | 1994 | Album |
| Cello Sonatas | Sergei Prokofiev & Elliott Carter - David Pereira, Lisa Moore | 1994 | Album |
| Orchestral Songs / Complete Choral Music | Elliott Carter, Rosalind Rees, Gregg Smith Singers | 1993 | Album |
| Concerto For Orchestra / Violin Concerto / Three Occasions | Elliott Carter - Oliver Knussen, London Sinfonietta, Ole Böhn | 1992 | Album |
| 20th Century Baroque: Modern Reflections On Old Instruments | Manuel De Falla, Elliott Carter, Ilja Hurník, Dominick Argento, Rembrandt Chamber Players with Larry Combs, Patrice Michaels | 1992 | Album |
| Sonata For Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harpsichord / Cello Sonata / Double Concerto | Elliott Carter | 1992 | Compil. |
| Concerto For Orchestra / Violin Concerto / Three Occasions | Elliott Carter - Oliver Knussen, London Sinfonietta, Ole Böhn | 1992 | Album |
| The Four String Quartets / Duo For Violin & Piano | Elliott Carter - Juilliard String Quartet, Christopher Oldfather | 1991 | Album |
| Quintet, Eight Etudes, Blow, Quintetto, Zehn Stücke | Elliott Carter, Franco Donatoni, György Kurtág, György Ligeti, Quintetto Arnold | 1991 | Album |
| The Wallace Collection | The Wallace Collection, John Wallace - Sir Michael Tippett, Benjamin Britten, Elliott Carter, Witold Lutoslawski | 1991 | Album |
| Transatlantic Piano | John McCabe Plays John Adams, Richard Rodney Bennett, Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, George Rochberg, André Previn | 1991 | Album |
| Music Of Elliott Carter | Elliott Carter | 1991 | Compil. |
| Three American String Quartets | Elliott Carter, Milton Babbitt, Mel Powell - The Composers Quartet | 1990 | Album |
| Oboe Concerto - Esprit Rude / Esprit Doux - A Mirror On Which To Dwell - Penthode | Elliott Carter / Heinz Holliger, Sophie Cherrier, André Trouttet, Phyllis Bryn-Julson - Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez | 1990 | Album |
| Suite Nr. 3 In C-Dur Für Violoncello Solo - Esprit Rude, Esprit Doux For Flute And Clarinet - Enchanted Preludes For Flute And Violoncello - Riconoscenza Per Goffredo Petrassi For Solo Violin - Triple Duo | Johann Sebastian Bach, Elliott Carter – Thomas Demenga | 1990 | Album |
| The Minotaur / Piano Sonata / Two Songs | Elliott Carter - New York Chamber Symphony, Gerard Schwarz - Paul Jacobs, Jan DeGaetani, Gilbert Kalish | 1990 | Compil. |
| American Winds Volume 1 | Walter Piston, Elliott Carter, Irving Fine, Elie Siegmeister, Vincent Persichetti Performed by The Boehm Quintette | 1990 | Album |
| The Vocal Works (1975-1981) | Elliott Carter - Speculum Musicae With Katherine Ciesinski, Jon Garrison, Patrick Mason, Jan Opalach, Christine Schadeberg | 1989 | Album |
| Night Fantasies / Phrygian Gates / Six Tangos | Ursula Oppens, Elliott Carter, John Adams | 1989 | Album |
| The Music For String Quartet Vol. 2: String Quartets 2 + 3, Elegy | Elliott Carter - Arditti Quartet | 1988 | Album |
| The Music For String Quartet Vol. 1: String Quartets 1 + 4 | Elliott Carter - Arditti Quartet | 1988 | Album |
| Piano Concerto / Variations For Orchestra | Elliott Carter - Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Michael Gielen, Ursula Oppens | 1986 | Album |
| Hidden Sparks | Maryvonne Le Dizes - Elliott Carter, Tod Machover, John Melby, Ralph Shapey | 1986 | Album |
| Karis Plays: Chopin, Carter, Schumann | Aleck Karis - Frédéric Chopin / Elliott Carter / Robert Schumann | 1986 | Album |
| In Sleep, In Thunder / Triple Duo | Elliott Carter | 1985 | Album |
| Night Fantasies · Piano Sonata | Elliott Carter, Paul Jacobs | 1983 | Album |
| Chamber Music By Elliott Carter • String Quartet No. 3 / Eight Etudes And A Fantasy | Elliott Carter, The Composers Quartet, Dorian Quintet | 1983 | Album |
| String Quartet No. 2 / String Quartet No. 2 / String Quartet No. 3 | Brian Ferneyhough / Jonathan Harvey / Elliott Carter / Arditti Quartet | 1983 | Album |
| Night Fantasies - Piano Sonata | Elliott Carter, Charles Rosen | 1983 | Album |
| Music Of Elliott Carter: Syringa, Concerto For Orchestra | Elliott Carter | 1982 | Album |
| The Early Music | Elliott Carter – American Composers Orchestra, Paul Dunkel | 1982 | Album |
| American Music For Strings | Samuel Barber / Irving Fine / Elliott Carter / David Diamond - The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz | 1980 | Album |
| Symphony Of Three Orchestras / A Mirror On Which To Dwell | Elliott Carter - The New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Pierre Boulez, Speculum Musicae, Richard Fitz, Susan Davenny Wyner | 1980 | Album |
| The York Winds Play Music By Cherney, Heiden, Rea, And Carter | The York Winds, Brian Cherney, Bernhard Heiden, John Rea, Elliott Carter | 1980 | Album |
| 20th Century Music For Voice & Guitar | John Cage • Elliott Carter • William Schuman • Andrew Imbrie • Harold Blumenfeld • Lou Harrison • Igor Stravinsky • William Bland • Barbara Kolb • Gregg Smith - Rosalind Rees ; David Starobin | 1978 | Album |
| American Music For Chorus | Elliott Carter • Aaron Copland • Jacob Druckman • Charles Ives - Tanglewood Festival Chorus • John Oliver | 1978 | Album |
| Percussion Vol 2 | Sylvio Gualda – Iannis Xenakis / Elliott Carter / Nguyen Thiên Dao | 1978 | Album |
| Americana / The Odes Of Shang / To Music | Randall Thompson / Seymour Shifrin / Elliott Carter - The University Of Michigan Chamber Choir, The University Of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Hilbish | 1977 | Album |
| The Avant Garde Woodwind Quintet In The U.S.A. | Samuel Barber, Arthur Berger, Elliott Carter, Luciano Berio, Irving Fine, Lukas Foss, Mario Davidovsky, Jacob Druckman, Gunther Schuller & Karel Husa - Dorian Quintet | 1977 | Album |
| Brass Quintet / Eight Pieces For Four Timpani | Elliott Carter | 1976 | Album |
| Double Concerto For Harpsichord And Piano With Two Chamber Orchestras / Duo For Violin And Piano | Elliott Carter | 1975 | Album |
| String Quartet No. 3 / String Quartet No. 2 | Elliott Carter, Juilliard String Quartet | 1974 | Album |
| Gerard Schwarz Plays New Music For Trumpet | Gerard Schwarz - Henry Brant / Elliott Carter / Richard Moryl / Charles Whittenberg / Stefan Wolpe | 1973 | Album |
| Concerto For Orchestra / Connotations For Orchestra - Inscape | Elliott Carter / Aaron Copland | 1973 | Album |
| American Chamber Music (20th Century) | Elliott Carter • Charles Ives • Quincy Porter - Boston Symphony Chamber Players | 1971 | Album |
| String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 | Elliott Carter - The Composers Quartet | 1970 | Album |
| Concerto For Orchestra / In Praise Of Shahn (Canticle For Orchestra) | Elliott Carter / William Schuman - Leonard Bernstein, The New York Philharmonic Orchestra | 1970 | Album |
| Sonata For Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harpsichord / Sonata For Cello & Piano | Elliott Carter | 1969 | Album |
| Carter / Henze | Elliott Carter / Hans Werner Henze | 1969 | Album |
| Variations For Orchestra / Double Concerto | Elliott Carter | 1968 | Album |
| Piano Concerto / As Quiet As | Elliott Carter / Michael Colgrass - Jacob Lateiner, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf | 1968 | Album |
| Fantasia / Vitebsk / Woodwind Quintet / Divertimento | Irving Fine, Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, Walter Piston, Boston Symphony Chamber Players | 1967 | Album |
| Modern American Piano Music | Aaron Copland / Roger Sessions / Elliott Carter - Beveridge Webster | 1966 | Album |
| Sonata / Concerto / Lovers / Suite Royale | Sylvia Marlowe - Elliott Carter / Manuel De Falla / Ned Rorem / Henri Sauguet | 1965 | Album |
| Piano Sonata / Double Concerto For Harpsichord And Piano With Two Chamber Orchestras | Elliott Carter, Charles Rosen, Ralph Kirkpatrick, Gustav Meier | 1965 | Album |
| Suite From "Pocahontas" / Piano Sonata | Elliott Carter / Zurich Radio Orchestra, Jacques-Louis Monod, Charles Rosen | 1962 | Album |
| Double Concerto For Harpsichord And Piano With Two Chamber Orchestras - Concerto For Violin, Cello, Ten Winds And Percussion | Elliott Carter, Leon Kirchner / Ralph Kirkpatrick, Charles Rosen, Gustav Meier, Tossy Spivakovsky, Aldo Parisot | 1962 | Album |
| Second Quartet / Quartet No. 3 | Elliott Carter / William Schuman, Juilliard String Quartet | 1961 | Album |
| Sonata For Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harpsichord / String Quartet No. 1 | Elliott Carter / Harold Shapero | 1960 | Album |
| String Quartet | Elliott Carter - The Walden String Quartet | 1956 | Album |
| Tabuh-Tabuhan / The Minotaur | Colin McPhee / Elliott Carter | 1956 | Album |
| Sonata For Piano / Sonata For Violoncello & Piano | Elliott Carter - Beveridge Webster, Bernard Greenhouse, Anthony Makas | 1952 | Album |
| The Minotaur / Symphony No. 4 / New Dance | Elliott Carter, Henry Cowell, Wallingford Riegger / Howard Hanson Conducting The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | Album | |
| Carter-Rosso-Devienne-Davison / Russo & Ignacio | Elliott Carter, François Devienne, John Russo, John Davison | Album | |
| Piano Concerto / As Quiet As | Elliott Carter / Michael Colgrass - Jacob Lateiner, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf | Album | |
| String Quartet No. 8 / Eight Etudes And A Fantasy For Woodwind Quartet | Quincy Porter, Elliott Carter - The Stanley Quartet, New York Woodwind Quintet | Album |
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