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The premiere recording of the first-ever opera by America's greatest living composer, released to coincide with his 95th birthday, is a major new music event. Going against the archetypes of “late work”, Carter’s opera is spirited, energetic, full of power. As The Economist recently observed, “Today Elliott Carter is writing music of dazzling brilliance and subtlety: this is an invigorating explosion of creativity.” Peter Eötvös draws superlative performances from a gifted cast.
So much of Elliott Carter’s music in the past 40 years has involved instrumental role-playing that it was strange he never composed an opera until he was almost 90. “What Next?”, with a libretto by Paul Griffiths, was first staged in Berlin in 1999, and this excellent recording was made at a concert performance in Amsterdam the following year. The situation is straightforward – six people, five adults and a child, have been involved in a road accident; they are all disoriented, and have to sort out where they were going, who with, and what they intended to do. The effect is like an ensemble from a comic opera blown up to 40 minutes; the action is inconsequential and deliberately open-ended, but the orchestral backdrop, a typical late Carter web of glistening instrumental lines, is exquisite. In the “Asko Concerto”, written immediately after the opera, those instrumental webs move into the spotlight in a series of interlinked short movements in which every proportion is perfect. -Andrew Clements, The Guardian
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ARTISTS
Valdine Anderson (soprano); Dean Elzinga (baritone); Sarah Leonard (soprano); William Joyner (tenor); Hilary Summers (contralto); Emanuel Hoogeveen (boy alto); Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra; Peter Eotvos (conductor) |
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What Next?
An Opera in One Act,
Words by Paul Griffiths
Asko Concerto |
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