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suggested the piece confirmed a change in Carter's composition style, writing, "It might be too much of a stretch to blame this new-found clarity on the composer writing his first opera in 1999 (at the age of 90!) but clearly Carter has started letting his musical ideas sing as well as shout."
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declared it "a piece of gorgeous orchestral colour." She added, "Sections of the ensemble glint and fade; melodic snippets gurgle to the surface and an exquisite finespun mesh holds it all together." K. Smith of
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has a duration of roughly 19 minutes and is composed in thirteen connected
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Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano with Two Chamber Orchestras
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has been praised by music critics. Kate Molleson of
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The work is scored for an orchestra comprising three
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Music commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra
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Index

concerto for orchestra
Elliott Carter
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Hall, Boston
Ingo Metzmacher
movements
flutes
piccolo
oboes
cor anglais
clarinets
bass clarinet
bassoons
contrabassoon
horns
trumpets
trombones
tuba
harp
piano
strings
The Guardian
Gramophone



Carter, Elliott
"Boston Concerto"
Boosey & Hawkes
"Obituary: Helen Jones Carter, 95"

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