Changes for guitar (1983) | Compositions | Elliott Carter, composer

Dedication: To David Starobin
Buy Score: Hendon Music (Boosey & Hawkes)
Manuscripts: Paul Sacher Stiftung

Premiere: Dec 11, 1983/ David Starobin, guitar/ 92nd Street Y, New York, NY

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Changes, for guitar solo, is music of mercurial contrasts of character and mood, unified by its harmonic and rhythmic structure. Various aspects of the basic harmony are brought out in the course of the work, somewhat like the patterns used by bell-ringers in ringing changes.

The score was written during the summer of 1983 and is dedicated to David Starobin who commissioned it and generously gave me advice about the guitar. He performed its premiere in New York at a concert given on my 75th birthday, December 11, 1983.

– Elliott Carter

Recordings (8)

Changes
Naxos 8574394 (2022)
Arturo Tallini, guitar
David Starobin: Favorite Tracks, Vol. 2
Bridge Records 9292 (2009)
Patrick Mason | Speculum Musicae | David Starobin, guitar
Elena Casoli: Changes Chances
Stradivarius 33718 (2007)
Elena Casoli, guitar
Nieuw Ensemble: Homages & Dedications
Auvidis Montaigne MO 782089 (2003)
Nieuw Ensemble, Ed Spanjaard, conductor | Hans Wesseling, mandolin | Helenus de Rijke, guitar | Ernestine Stoop, harp | Herman Halewijn, vibraphone | Ad Welleman, trumpet (+19)
Sheer Pluck
Musical Heritage Society CD-1032 (1998)
Seelye, Todd
The Group for Contemporary Music: Elliott Carter: Eight Compositions (1948-1993)
Bridge Records BCD 9044 (1994)
Charles Neidich, clarinet | Harvey Sollberger, flute | Fred Sherry, cello | Rolf Schulte, violin | Martin Goldray, piano | David Starobin, guitar | Charles Wuorinen, piano
David Starobin: New Music with Guitar: Selected Works from Volumes 1, 2, & 3
Bridge Records BCD 9009 (1986)
David Starobin, guitar
New Music with Guitar, Volume 2
Bridge Records BDG 2004 (1984)
David Starobin, guitar