Two Diversions for piano (1999) | Compositions

Dedication

For Ursula Oppens

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Hendon Music (Boosey & Hawkes)

Manuscripts

Paul Sacher Stiftung

Parts

first Diversion
second Diversion

Premiere: Mar 2, 2000/ Kirill Gerstein, piano/ Carnegie Hall, New York, NY

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Mari Asakawa's The Flow of Music: Piano works of Carter & Babbitt

July 6, 2018

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These Two Diversions for piano deal with a growing contrast between simultaneous musical ideas. The first Diversion presents a line of paired notes, musical intervals, that maintain a single speed throughout, while the other very changeable material uses many different speeds and characters. The second Diversion contrasts two musical lines one of which, on the whole, grows slower and slower while the other grows faster and faster. With these musical ideas about diverging materials, I hope I have written diverting music.

– Elliott Carter

Recordings (5)

The Flow of Music: Piano Works of Carter & Babbitt
Centaur CRC3646 (2018)
Mari Asakawa, piano
Oppens Plays Carter
Cedille (2008)
Ursula Oppens, piano
Pierre-Laurent Aimard: Not Just One Truth (DVD)
Medici Arts 2055798 (2008)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
Winston Choi: Elliott Carter: Complete Piano Works
l'empreinte digitale ED 13164 (2003)
Winston Choi, piano
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)