Figment II: Remembering Mr. Ives for cello

Year
2001
Duration
5'
Category
Instrumental

Dedication: For Fred Sherry
Buy Score: Hendon Music (Boosey & Hawkes)
Manuscripts: Paul Sacher Stiftung

Premiere: Dec 2, 2001/ Fred Sherry, cello/ Alice Tully Hall, New York, NY

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Figment II was composed in the spring of 2001 as a present for the wonderful American cellist Fred Sherry, who with his outstanding instrumental and organizational abilities and his boundless enthusiasm has done so much for music.

This short Figment for solo cello recalls fragmentarily bits of the Thoreau movement of the Concord Sonata and Hallowe’en by my late friend Charles Ives, whose music I have known since 1924 and have loved these works in particular.

– Elliott Carter

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Jul 19, 2023 7:30 pm

An Evening of Elliott Carter

Darrett Adkins, cello; Nadine Asin, flute; Elaine Douvas, oboe; Liam Kaplan, harpsichord; Robert Spano, piano

Harris Concert Hall, Aspen, CO, United States/More Info

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Recordings (9)

Orbit: Music for Solo Cello (1945-2014)
PentaTone Classics PTE 5186542 (2015)
Haimovitz, Matt
Caroline Chin & Brian Snow: Elliott Carter: 4 Lauds; Figment; Figment II; Tre Duetti
Centaur (2014)
Caroline Chin, violin | Brian Snow, cello
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
Franklin Cox: The New Cello, Vol. 1: American Composers
Centaur (2010)
Franklin Cox, 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
Chamber Music by Elliott Carter: Figments and Fragments
2L 2L-054-SACD (2008)
Johannes Martens, cello | Anders Nilsson, violin | Yi Yang, violin | Anders Rensvik, viola | Andjei Majewsk, clarinet | Tom Ottar Andreassen, flute | Joachim Kwetzinsky, piano
Elliott Carter: Oeuvres avec violoncelle
Assai 222602 (2004)
Alexis Descharmes, cello | Sébastien Vichard, piano & harpsichord | Jean-Luc Menet, flute | Mario Caroli, flute | Hélène Devilleneuve, oboe | Nicolas Baldeyrou, clarinet | Nicolas Miribel, Violin
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
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)