Quintet for piano and string quartet for piano, 2 violins, viola, and cello

Year
1997
Duration
16'
Category
Chamber

Dedication: For Ursula Oppens and the Arditti String Quartet
Buy Score: Hendon Music (Boosey & Hawkes)
Manuscripts: Paul Sacher Stiftung

Premiere: Nov 18, 1998/ Ursula Oppens, piano / Arditti Quartet/ Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Quintet for Piano and String Quartet was composed during the summer of 1997 for the pianist, Ursula Oppens and the Arditti Quartet, commissioned for them by the Library of Congress with the intention of giving its premiere at a concert celebrating my 90th birthday at the Library.

The work is in one movement of many changing characters and contrasts. The moods and materials of the piano are contrasted with those of the string quartet, which, itself, is a combination of four different strands that maintain somewhat independent existences, played by the four strings.

– Elliott Carter

Recordings (1)

Elliott Carter: Quintets and Voices
Mode 108 (2003)
Ursula Oppens, piano | Lucy Shelton, soprano | Arditti Quartet: Irvine Arditti, violin; Graeme Jennings, violin; Dov Scheindlin, viola; Rohan De Saram, cello (+22)