Elliott Carter

This is a wonderful Concerto for Oboe by inspirational American composer Elliot Carter. The piece was commissioned by the conductor of the Basel Chamber Orchestra Paul Sacher. Sacher commissioned for Swiss oboist and avant-garde composer Heinz Holliger. Holliger premiered it in June 1988 in Zürich Switzerland with the Collegium Musicum.

La pièce a été composée pour Virgil Blackwell, qui a joué le bassclarinet à la première représentation. Les Etats du compositeur: ' son titre provient du fait que, contrairement aux autres les instruments à vent, la clarinette overblows à la douzième, un tha grand intervalle / Clarinette Basse

Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1341-The complete set of Elliott Carter's String Quartets in a sturdy hardback study score edition - Hawkes Pocket Scores 1341. An ideal study copmpanion for enthusiasts of this challenging and important American master.

Score and Parts-The Canonic Suite for quartet of alto saxophones is a revision made in 1981 of the Suite For Quartet Of Alto Saxophones. It was awarded a prize in 1945 by Broadcast Music Inc. and was first published that year. The Fanfare is a canon in four parts at the unison; the Nocturne a four-part canon in inversion (Sax 2) retrograde (Sax 3) and retrograde - inversion (Sax 4); the Tarantella a four-part canon at the second above.