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Elliott Carter: "Intermittences" for Piano

DW staff (kg/kjb)September 23, 2008

American composer Elliott Carter turns 100 this year. His works often adopt a neoclassical aesthetic and those written after 1950 tend to be atonal.

Elena Bashkirova
Bashkirova is the founder of the Metropolis Ensemble in Berlin and Jerusalem International Festival of Chamber MusicImage: Beethovenfest/Privat

Carter's "Intermittences" for piano, written in 2005, tactfully parallels silence with sound.

It was performed by Russian pianist Elena Bashkirova as part of the 2008 Beethovenfest in Bonn.

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