Caténaires for piano (2006) | Compositions

Contained In: Two Thoughts About the Piano for piano (2007)
Dedication: pour Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Buy Score: Hendon Music (Boosey & Hawkes)
Manuscripts: Paul Sacher Stiftung

Premiere: Dec 11, 2006/ Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano/ Zankel Hall, New York, NY

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November 12, 2016
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When Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who performs so eloquently, asked me to write a piece for him, I became obsessed with the idea of a fast one line piece with no chords. It became a continuous chain of notes using different spacings, accents, and colorings, to produce a wide variety of expression.

– Elliott Carter

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Mateusz Rettner. Photo by Conor Gorman.

Dec 4, 2025 7:30 pm

Poliphonia Presents Mateusz Rettner

Mateusz Rettner, piano

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Recordings (9)

Sung-Soo Cho: Maximum | Minimum | Modern: Piano Music by American Composers
Albany (2016)
Sung-Soo Cho, piano
Pierre-Laurent Aimard: Not Just One Truth (DVD)
Medici Arts 2055798 (2008)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
Thoughts About the Piano
B Records LBM 031 (2021)
Claudia Chan, piano
America 1
Artalinna ATL-A031 (2021)
Vestard Shimkus, piano
Tempo e Tempi
Odradek ODRCD378 (2020)
Pina Napolitano, piano
The Flow of Music: Piano Works of Carter & Babbitt
Centaur CRC3646 (2018)
Mari Asakawa, piano
I Got Rhythm
La Música LMU011 (2018)
David Lively, piano
Conrad Tao: Pictures
Warner Classics 552763 (2015)
Conrad Tao, piano
Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 9
Bridge Records 9396 (2013)
Rosalind Rees, soprano | David Starobin, guitar | Tony Arnold, soprano | Colorado College Festival Orchestra, Scott Yoo, conductor | Charles Rosen, piano | Basel Sinfonietta (+8)