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Two Diversions for piano

  • Year
    1999
  • Duration
    8'
  • Category
    Piano
Dedication
For Ursula Oppens
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Hendon Music (Boosey & Hawkes)
Manuscripts
Paul Sacher Stiftung
Parts
  1. first Diversion
  2. second Diversion
Premiere
Mar 2, 2000/ Kirill Gerstein, piano/ Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
News
  • Mari Asakawa's The Flow of Music: Piano works of Carter & Babbitt
    Mari Asakawa's The Flow of Music: Piano works of Carter & Babbitt

    July 6, 2018

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These Two Diversions for piano deal with a growing contrast between simultaneous musical ideas. The first Diversion presents a line of paired notes, musical intervals, that maintain a single speed throughout, while the other very changeable material uses many different speeds and characters. The second Diversion contrasts two musical lines one of which, on the whole, grows slower and slower while the other grows faster and faster. With these musical ideas about diverging materials, I hope I have written diverting music.

– Elliott Carter
Recordings (5)
  • The Flow of Music: Piano Works of Carter & Babbitt
    Centaur CRC3646 (2018)
    Mari Asakawa, piano
  • Oppens Plays Carter
    Cedille (2008)
    Ursula Oppens, piano
  • Pierre-Laurent Aimard: Not Just One Truth (DVD)
    Medici Arts 2055798 (2008)
    Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
  • Winston Choi: Elliott Carter: Complete Piano Works
    l'empreinte digitale ED 13164 (2003)
    Winston Choi, piano
  • The Music of Elliott Carter, Volume Five - Nine Compositions (1994-2002)
    Bridge Records 9128 (2002)
    Virgil Blackwell, bass clarinet | Charles Rosen, piano | Maureen Gallagher, viola | Speculum Musicae: Stephen Taylor, oboe; Curtis Macomber, violin; Eric Bartlett, cello (+5)
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