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Interventions for piano and orchestra

  • Year
    2007
  • Duration
    15'
  • Category
    Solo and Orchestra
Instrumentation
3(1,3=picc, 2=afl).3(II=corA).2(II=bcl).dbcl(=bcl).2.dbn-4.3C tpt(=Bb tpt).3.1-perc(4):I=xyl/marimba/4bongos/low cym/high SD/cowbell/lg almglocke/tam-t; II=4tmpl.bl/high cym/med SD/med tom-t/slapstick/BD; III=4wdbl/med cym/low SD/low tom-t/guiro/wood drum/claves; IV=2metal pipes.2timbales/wind gong/nipple gong/maraca/sizzle cym-strings
Commission
Commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, James Levine, Music Director; the Carnegie Hall Corporation; and the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Daniel Barenboim, General Music Director
Dedication
for Daniel Barenboim and James Levine
Buy Score
Hendon Music (Boosey & Hawkes)
Manuscripts
Paul Sacher Stiftung
Premiere
Dec 4, 2008/ Daniel Barenboim, piano / Boston Symphony Orchestra / James Levine/ Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
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  • Interventions Clip

When both Daniel Barenboim and James Levine suggested a work for both of them to perform on my 100th birthday, delighted and also hoping that I could write something worthy of these two great performers, I soon realized that it could not be a regular piano concerto because it would not give equal prevalence to both performers. So I decided to write a work that had one long line, mostly for the strings, interrupted by the piano which also had its developing part interrupted by the orchestra. Each intervening in the other’s part, sometimes humorously.

The work was completed on April 16, 2007.

– Elliott Carter
Recordings (1)
  • Elliott Carter Late Works
    Ondine ODE 1296-2 (2017)
    Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Oliver Knussen, conductor | Birmingham Contemporary Music Group | Colin Currie, percussion | Isabelle Faust, violin | Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello
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