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Rhapsodic Musings for violin

  • Year
    2000
  • Duration
    5'
  • Category
    Instrumental
Contained In
4 Lauds for violin (1984)
Dedication
For Robert Mann
Buy Score
Hendon Music (Boosey & Hawkes)
Manuscripts
Paul Sacher Stiftung
Premiere
Mar 28, 2001/ Robert Mann, violin/ Merkin Hall, New York, NY
News
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    Collage New Music's all-Carter Concert

    March 14, 2016

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Rhapsodic Musings is a present to Robert Mann on his 80th birthday. It is a small tribute to his extraordinary, devoted advocacy of contemporary music. As is well-known, with the other members of the Juilliard Quartet he gave such pioneering and commanding performances of quartets by Bartók, Schoenberg, and many others, including my own, that many of these works became part of the performers’ repertory. His teaching and other activities brought these scores to the attention of students.

Using his initials R. M. in the title of this short violin solo and in its main motive – re, mi (D, E) – this piece tries to suggest some of his remarkable human and artistic qualities. It was composed in June, 2000, in Southbury, Connecticut.

– Elliott Carter
Recordings (11)
  • Tamsin Waley-Cohen: Soli
    Signum Records SIGCD416 (2015)
    Tamsin Waley-Cohen, violin
  • Elliott Carter: The Complete String Quartets; 100th Anniversary Release
    Naxos 8.503225 (2010)
    Pacifica Quartet: Simin Ganatra, violin I; Sibbi Bernhardsson, violin II; Masumi Per Rostad, viola; Brandon Vamos, cello
  • Elliott Carter: 100th Anniversary Release
    Naxos 8.559614 (2008)
    New Music Concerts Ensemble, Robert Aitken, conductor | Max Christie, clarinet | David Hetherington, cello | Virgil Blackwell, bass clarinet | Fujiko Imajishi, violin | David Swan, piano
  • Turning in Time
    Centaur CRC 3836 (2021)
    Kinga Augustyn, violin
  • Irvine Arditti: Caprices
    Aeon AECD 1755 (2017)
    Irvine Arditti, violin
  • Invisible Colors
    Urlicht UAV-5979 (2017)
    Miranda Cuckson, violin
  • Caroline Chin & Brian Snow: Elliott Carter: 4 Lauds; Figment; Figment II; Tre Duetti
    Centaur (2014)
    Caroline Chin, violin | Brian Snow, cello
  • Francesca Anderegg: Mozart, Schoenberg, Perle, Schubert, Carter
    Albany 1361 (2012)
    Francesca Anderegg, violin
  • Jennifer Koh: Rhapsodic Musings
    Cedille CDR 90000 113 (2009)
    Jennifer Koh, violin
  • The Music of Elliott Carter, Volume Six
    Bridge Records 9177 (2005)
    Rolf Schulte, violin | Odense Symphony Orchestra, Donald Palma, conductor
  • Lauds and Lamentations: Music of Elliott Carter and Isang Yun
    ECM New Series 1848/9 (2003)
    Heinz Holliger, English horn | Thomas Zehetmair, violin | Ruth Killius | Thomas Demenga, cello
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