Intermittences for piano (2005) | Compositions

Contained In: Two Thoughts About the Piano for piano (2007)
Dedication: For Peter Serkin
Buy Score: Hendon Music (Boosey & Hawkes)
Manuscripts: Paul Sacher Stiftung

Premiere: May 3, 2006/ Peter Serkin, piano/ Miller Auditorium, Kalamazoo, MI

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Elena Bashkirova plays Intermittences (audio stream)

May 11, 2017

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The many meanings silences can express in musical discourse challenged me to use some of them in Intermittences. This title was suggested by ‘Intermittences du Coeur’, one of the chapters in Marcel Proust’s novel. It is a short work that also uses many different piano sounds to convey its expressive meanings.

It was co-commissioned by the Carnegie Hall Corporation and The Gilmore International Keyboard Festival for Peter Serkin and composed in 2005.

– Elliott Carter

Recordings (3)

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Cedille (2008)
Ursula Oppens, piano
Conrad Tao: Pictures
Warner Classics 552763 (2015)
Conrad Tao, piano
Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 9
Bridge Records 9396 (2013)
Rosalind Rees, soprano | David Starobin, guitar | Tony Arnold, soprano | Colorado College Festival Orchestra, Scott Yoo, conductor | Charles Rosen, piano | Basel Sinfonietta (+8)