Elliott Carter
Elliott Carter (1908–2012) was an American modernist composer whose personal harmonic and rhythmic language shaped chamber and instrumental music across more than seven decades. Twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize, he remained prolific into his final years.
His early mature scores already set instruments on independent rhythmic paths. The Piano Sonata (MD 3286) of 1946 and the Sonata for cello and piano (TP032) of 1948 are landmarks of that turn, pairing formal clarity with the metric freedom that would mark his later music.
He wrote orchestral, chamber, solo and vocal works performed worldwide, among them a celebrated cycle of string quartets and the large-scale orchestral triptych Symphonia: sum fluxae pretium spei.
Elliott Carter is featured on the following titles
Prokofiev & Carter: Cello Sonatas
David Pereira and Lisa Moore, winners of the ABC Australian Record of the Year for The Wild Russians (TP017), bring the same shared vision, ensemble polish and passion to two cornerstones of the cello and piano repertoire.