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Nine by Five for woodwind quintet

  • Year
    2009
  • Duration
    8'
  • Category
    Chamber
Instrumentation
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Dedication
To Joseph Polisi. For Charles Neidich and the New York Woodwind Quintet
Buy Score
Hendon Music (Boosey & Hawkes)
Manuscripts
Paul Sacher Stiftung
Premiere
Feb 11, 2010/ New York Woodwind Quintet/ Paul Hall, The Juilliard School, New York, NY
News
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When Charles Neidich asked me if I would write a quintet for the excellent New York Woodwind Quintet, after a lot of thought I decided to follow the example of my friend the late Italian composer, Goffredo Petrassi, who wrote a charming wind trio – Tre Per Sette, in which the players each have several instruments of the same type with different ranges. In my Nine by Five the flutist also plays piccolo, the oboist an English horn and so forth.

The work, largely linear, has solos, duets, and even a quintet. These sections are separated by a play of intervallic fragments. It was composed during the last months of 2009 in NYC.

– Elliott Carter
Recordings (2)
  • La Musique
    Genuin GEN 21731 (2021)
    Swiss Chamber Soloists: Diego Chenna, bassoon; Félix Renggli, flute; François Benda, clarinet; Heinz Holliger, oboe; Sergio Pires, clarinet; Sarah Wegener, soprano (+4)
  • 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)
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