Tempo e Tempi for soprano and ensemble

Year
1998 - 1999
Duration
15'
Category
Voice and Ensemble

Buy Score: Hendon Music (Boosey & Hawkes)
Manuscripts: Paul Sacher Stiftung
Songs: See below

	Title	Text Author	Dedication	Instrumentation
1.	Tempo e Tempi	Eugenio Montale	for Raffaele Pozzi	sop, corA, vln, bcl
2.	Ed è Subito Sera	Salvatore Quasimodo	for Victoria Schneider	sop, cl, corA, vln, vlc
3.	Òboe Sommerso	Salvatore Quasimodo	for Heinz Holliger	sop, ob
4.	Una Colomba	Giuseppe Ungaretti	for Charles Neidich	sop, cl
5.	Godimento	Giuseppe Ungaretti	for Licia e Roman Vlad	sop, ob, cl, vln, vlc
6.	L'Arno a Rovezzano	Eugenio Montale	for Enzo Restagno	sop, ob, cl, vln, vlc
7.	Uno	Giuseppe Ungaretti [from the poem "Proverbi"]	for Fred Sherry	sop, vcl
8.	Segreto del Poeta	Giuseppe Ungaretti	Maria-Teresa e Riccardo Cerocchi	sop, ob, bcl, vln, vlc

Premiere: May 24, 2000/ Lucy Shelton, soprano / London Sinfonietta / Oliver Knussen/ Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

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Fascination with Italian music, literature, and visual arts has grown ever since my mother took me to Rome in around 1924. This song-cycle is a small gesture of gratitude to Italian culture and its musicians that have shown such an interest in my work.

A few years ago Raffaele Pozzi (one of the directors of the Pontino Festival, which dedicated two of its manifestations to my work) sent me the two poems of Montale included in this cycle, asking me if I would set them. The first, Tempo e Tempi, pleased its Italian audience so much that I was encouraged to set others. Using the instrumentation of the first (oboe, clarinet, violin, and ‘cello), I chose poems by Ungaretti and Quasimodo, each referring to the passage of time.

– Elliott Carter

Recordings (3)

Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter!
Neos NEOS 10816 (2008)
Swiss Chamber Soloists
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 Four
Bridge Records 9111 (2001)
David Starobin, guitar | William Purvis, conductor | Susan Narucki, soprano | Speculum Musicae: Stephen Taylor, oboe; Allen Blustine, clarinet; Curtis Macomber, violin (+2)