Score-Born in New York City on 11 December 1908 Elliott Carter began to be seriously interested in music in high school and was encouraged at that time by Charles Ives. He attended Harvard University where he studied with Walter Piston and later went to Paris where for three years he studied with Nadia Boulanger. He then returned to New York to devote his time to composing and teaching.With the explorations of tempo relationships and texture that characterize his music Carter has been one of the prime innovators of 20th-century music. The challenges of works such as the Symphony Of Three Orchestras are richly rewarding.

In 2012, the American composer Elliott Carter died at the ripe old age of almost 104. To the last, he devoted his time to composing. Instances is the last orchestral work written by the two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. / Orchestre

Score-Carter’s Variations for Orchestra is an astonishing work from 1956. There are ten variations many of them of clearly identifiable character some in tricky in-between places each of them displaying different resources of orchestral colour and virtuosity.

Score-Based on the thrilling Greek legend of Theseus and The Minotaur two-scene Ballet captures the regal glitz of Minos’ court and all the grit and gore of the Labyrinth and its monster. This is the full score of the The Minotaur Ballet Suite for Orchestra and contains all the music and major themes of this breathtaking and exciting Ballet.

Score-Symphony no. 1 (1942) reflects the neo-classical influences of studies with Walter Piston and Gustav Holst at Harvard (1926-32) and with Stravinskian disciple and master pedagogue Nadia Boulanger in Paris.