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´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra celebrates Elliott Carter's centenary year in final concert of 2008


Worldwide celebrations marking Elliott Carter's centenary year reach their climax around the composer's birthday and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra dedicates its closing concert of 2008 to this musical icon.

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The orchestra has enjoyed a long and productive association with Carter and for this special event at London's Barbican Centre on 16 December they are conducted by one of the composer's foremost champions, Oliver Knussen.

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The programme includes the world premiere of a new work commissioned by the ´óÏó´«Ã½ to mark this occasion alongside two UK first performances.

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Carter is renowned for his indefatigable creativity and this concert features some of his most contemporary works, all written by the composer during his 90th decade.

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´óÏó´«Ã½ commission Wind Rose receives its first performance by members of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ SO's wind section.

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In addition, the programme includes UK premieres of two works composed in 2007, Sound Fields written for string orchestra and a vocal sextet Mad Regales, performed aÌýcappella by members of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers.

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Martin Owen, principal horn of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ SO, is the soloist in the composer's Horn Concerto, which consists of a number of short sections each illustrating different facets of the instrument, and cellist Anssi Karttunen, a passionate advocate of contemporary music, performs Carter's Cello Concerto.

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The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra memorably mounted Get Carter!, a weekend-long festival of Carter's music in 2006 of which each concert was performed in the presence of the composer.

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Prior to that, in the early Nineties, the ´óÏó´«Ã½ commissioned part of Carter's orchestral triptych Symphonia: sum fluxae pretium spei.

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The orchestra gave the world premiere of the second movement, Adagio tenebroso, at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms in 1995, under the baton of their then chief conductor Sir Andrew Davis; Oliver Knussen later directed the orchestra in first performance of the complete work.

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Knussen and the orchestra had previously collaborated to perform the world premiere of Carter's Three Occasions for Orchestra in 1989.

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There will be a pre-concert talk at 6.00pm in the Barbican Hall on The Music Of Elliott Carter.

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´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 broadcasts this latest concert in Performance On 3 on Friday 19 December at 7.00pm.

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The station features two in-depth interviews with Elliott Carter, exploring the man and his music, broadcast in Hear And Now on Saturday 6 December and Discovering Music on Sunday 14 December.

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Listings

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Elliott Carter Centenary Concert

Tuesday 16 December 2008, 7.30pm

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Sound Fields (UK premiere)

Cello Concerto

Wind Rose (´óÏó´«Ã½ commission: world premiere)

Mad Regales (UK premiere)

Horn Concerto

Boston Concerto

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Oliver Knussen, conductor

Martin Owen, French horn

Anssi Karttunen, cello

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´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra

Members of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers

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This is a change to the originally advertised programme.

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Pre-concert talk, Barbican Hall, 6.00pm

The Music Of Elliott Carter

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Carter on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3

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Hear And Now

Saturday 6 December, 10.30pm

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Ivan Hewett spends a weekend at Carter's home for an in-depth interview about his life and work. It reveals much about his life from apprentice years with Nadia Boulanger to the emergence of the Carter style that has marked him as one of the most influential figures on the modernist scene. Despite the severity of the thinking which Carter applied to works like the Concerto for Orchestra and Penthode, there emerges a man upon whom jazz has held a continued fascination and for whom the sheer joy of making music – making it a satisfying experience for those who play and listen to it – is paramount.

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Discovering Music

Sunday 14 December, 5.00pm

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Stephen Johnson also travels to New York to talk to Elliott Carter. Guiding us through four of his pieces, Elegy, Triple Duo, String Quartet no.5 and Dialogues, Carter delves into the techniques behind his music, together with stories from his life. From the tale of retreating into the Arizona Desert to compose his first Quartet, to the riotous premiere of the Rite of Spring, and dinners with fellow composer Edgar Varèse, Discovering Music presents a fascinating unravelling not only of four great American works, but also of an incredible cultural colossus, a man who has been at the forefront of American Contemporary music for more than 60 years.

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Performance On 3

Friday 19 December, 7.00pm

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Elliott Cater Centenary Concert recorded at London's Barbican Centre. ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra/Oliver Knussen.

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Radio 3 Publicity

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Category: Proms & Orchestras; Radio 3
Date: 19.11.2008
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