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| Afternoon On 3 | ...Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor opening the 114th season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts. The concert launches Proms celebrations of the centenaries of ELLIOTT CARTER and Olivier Messiaen and features a rich line-up of soloists.... |
| Artist Focus | ...Catherine Bott profiles violinist and leader of his own string quartet, Thomas Zehetmair, in a programme that includes Beethoven's Romance in F and music by ELLIOTT CARTER ... |
| Bbc Proms 2007 | ...A second Prom for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who originally gave the first performance of Bartok's ground-breaking Concerto for Orchestra. Plus conductor James Levine continues his long-standing collaboration with ELLIOTT CARTER with the UK premiere of Three Illusions for Orchestra.... |
| Bbc Proms 2008 [world Service] | ...Featuring music by Richard Strauss, Mozart, ELLIOTT CARTER and Messiaen.... |
| Bbc Proms 2008 | ...The concert concludes with works by Messiaen and ELLIOTT CARTER, whose centenaries are celebrated this year.... |
| Bbc Proms Chamber Music 2008 | ...ELLIOTT CARTER: Night Fantasies... |
| Discovering Music | Cast and Crew |
| Get Carter! | ...The Music of ELLIOTT CARTER... |
| Hear And Now | ...Sarah Walker introduces a concert of recent works by veteran American composer ELLIOTT CARTER. Recorded in May at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, the concert features the UK premiere of Carter's first opera and is preceded by a talk given by the work's librettist, Paul Griffiths. Carter: What Next? Valdine Anderson, soprano (Rose), Christopher Purves, baritone (Harry or Larry), Rosemary Hardy, soprano (Mama), Christopher Gillett, tenor (Zen), Hilary Summers, contralto (Stella), Gwilym Bowen, boy alto (Kid), London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen. Carter: String Quartet No 5. Arditti Quartet.... |
| John Tusa Interview, The | ...John Tusa, managing director of London's Barbican Centre, talks to leading creative figures about their work. His guest is American composer ELLIOTT CARTER, whose output has been increasing at a prodigious rate as he enters his tenth decade.... |
| Music Matters | ...Presented by Tom Service. Including 100 years of ELLIOTT CARTER's correspondence.... |
| Notes On Poetry | ...In his first talk on American poets associated with ELLIOTT CARTER, Mark Lawson reflects on the tortured and tragic work and life of Hart Crane (1899-1932).... |
| Performance On 3 | ...Oliver Knussen conducts music by some of his great heroes and friends. His teacher Gunther Schuller celebrates his 80th birthday this year; 2005 is the centenary of Michael Tippett's birth; and ELLIOTT CARTER is still composing at the age of 96. Carter's recent witty little concert-opener Micomicon was inspired by an episode from Cervantes' Don Quixote - which in turn inspired Richard Strauss back in 1897.... |
| Private Passions | ...Michael Berkeley talks to novelist Mark Haddon, whose best-selling book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time won many major literary awards. He has since published A Spot of Bother and is currently writing a stage play. His musical tastes are wide-ranging, and he talks eloquently about each of his choices, from Britten's setting of the folk song Tom Bowling and a Mozart piano sonata to music by Steve Reich, ELLIOTT CARTER and Sonic Youth.... |
| Twenty Minutes | ...ELLIOTT CARTER reflects on his life and work with Ivan Hewett, and explains how he has drawn on elements of both the American and European traditions in his music.... |