Retrouvailles for piano (2000) | Compositions

Dedication: To celebrate the birthday of my friend, Pierre Boulez, March 26, 2000
Buy Score: Hendon Music (Boosey & Hawkes)
Manuscripts: Paul Sacher Stiftung

Premiere: Mar 26, 2000/ Rolf Hind, piano/ South Bank Centre, London

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Retrouvailles for piano, commissioned by the Royal Festival Hall in London, was written to celebrate the birthday of my friend, Pierre Boulez, March 26, 2000. The score returns to the motto used in my Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux I (for his 60th birthday) and Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux II (for his 70th). Retrouvailles begins by recalling the end of Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux II and ends by recalling the opening of Esprit I. I hope this work gives some small suggestion of the great admiration I have for this extraordinary musician.

– Elliott Carter

Recordings (5)

Small is Beautiful
Navona NV6294 (2020)
Yoko Hirota, piano
Oppens Plays Carter
Cedille (2008)
Ursula Oppens, piano
Winston Choi: Elliott Carter: Complete Piano Works
l'empreinte digitale ED 13164 (2003)
Winston Choi, piano
Elliott Carter: Quintets and Voices
Mode 108 (2003)
Ursula Oppens, piano | Lucy Shelton, soprano | Arditti Quartet: Irvine Arditti, violin; Graeme Jennings, violin; Dov Scheindlin, viola; Rohan De Saram, cello (+22)
The Music of Elliott Carter, Volume Five - Nine Compositions (1994-2002)
Bridge Records 9128 (2002)
Virgil Blackwell, bass clarinet | Charles Rosen, piano | Maureen Gallagher, viola | Speculum Musicae: Stephen Taylor, oboe; Curtis Macomber, violin; Eric Bartlett, cello (+5)