Elliott Carter Oboe Concerto (Part 1) - Nicholas Daniel / David Robertson / BBC Symphony Orchestra

Mpaka Says:

Nov 28, 2010 - Such a incredable preformance ! Respect ! The perfect control of the sound ,air and fingers.

22Burnette Says:

Dec 11, 2010 - Play All Day......and/or.....Good Stuff

theothercanadian Says:

Dec 25, 2010 - elliot carter just told nick to do everything my conductor would have smacked me for doingamazing on both ends

blueyedboy84 Says:

Dec 30, 2010 - I am a trained composer . I would'nt go as far as sergeantmuffins below but really think Carter is way overrated. Forget the technical difficulties-I do not think it is very good music.Serial music has always gained great respectablility in universities but much is empty musically. This sort of music suppressed better American composers who wrote more tonal music eg Piston( symphony no2) or David Diamond ( eg symphony 3). Nicholas Daniel is one great oboist though.

Incoherents Says:

Jan 13, 2011 - Carter never wrote serial music....Atonal yes, serial no.

emoemoemo13666 Says:

Feb 6, 2011 - My reed would catch a flame from playing this......and my cors anglais would commit suicide 1/2 way through this VERY~! 20TH cENTURY! piece, love it though. As much as I love classical music and theory that creates pleasant harmonies, and countermelodies I 'm also in love with the extreme disonance and vigor[almost] of this piece; I disagree highly with sergeantmuffins, and believe that this music takes just as much skill as mozart[e.g. think of ALL OF the syncopation in this piece! And awkward

emoemoemo13666 Says:

Feb 6, 2011 - notes and rythms , truely a feat of the skill of the oboist,

Symbioticism Says:

Feb 21, 2011 - Define trained composer. Also, not only is this not serialist but you should remember that the reason some music is not listened to much is because it is not enjoyable to listen to, to play or to think about. I think Piston and Diamond are pretty unadventurous tbh.

Lawrencelot89 Says:

Feb 21, 2011 - It's as if he is speaking with his oboe, whereas playing Mozart would equal singing. If only I could understand what he is saying... I play the oboe, but do not understand this language.

danterosati Says:

Mar 27, 2011 - awesome performance of an awesome piece!

pwebsers Says:

Apr 12, 2011 - excellent playing on daniel's part, but...UGH.Now, I guess I don't have the same taste in music as most modern composers, but I like my music to sound good as well as having an appreciation for the skill required to play it. It seems modern composer's feel like they need to distinguish themselves by writing atonal, arhymic music. It's not so. Look up "Three Moods for Wind Quintet," that's a piece of music written recently that sounds beautiful and requires extreme skill to play.

saotomi5102 Says:

May 4, 2011 - Don't think of it like that. Music, especially Carter's was never about proving one's self. Think of it as this: Sometime minor chords aren't sad enough, or major chords aren't happy. Don't listen to this for it's purpose and technique, but rather its emotion. What does each section sound like and how does it make you feel?

djjjamin Says:

May 25, 2011 - @saotomi5102 hey. U know why music is so amazing? Everyone has their own interpretation of it and it can have such a different effect depending on how u listen to it. I would suggest listening to it in any damn way u feel like. Awesome piece tho, i don understand why people don't like it. I didn't even know it was atonal at first cause everything makes musical sense to me

xatzidakis Says:

May 30, 2011 - Very interesting interpretation of what's ''sound'',about how you should approach an orchestral colour.With respect but also with nerve!:)

ronoman88 Says:

Jun 17, 2011 - A fantastic Oboe player. A great piece. Thank God for You Tube!!!

aculturemind Says:

Jul 14, 2011 - @pwebsersCheck out the Carter documentary (it's round here...) called Music in Time. Just as Beethoven, and Brahms, and Ravel, and Schoenberg heard images in their mind's eye - so does Carter. These pieces are the result. I have always 'seen' musical imagery. Whether it's Hall and Oats, Alabama, Suffocation, or Carter.....

zachbernst Says:

Aug 21, 2011 - You're 'trained'? Then perhaps you can demonstrate serial structure in Carter for me. He has used twelve-pitch-class simultaneities (particularly those that contain a different interval between each adjacent dyad), but these aren't related by the normal serial operations. Nor can his rhythms be explained (as far as I know) by some sort of analogue of the pitch-class twelve-tone system. Am I missing something?

muslit Says:

Feb 4, 2012 - another bore by carter

kallb3rg Says:

Feb 23, 2012 - Carter intended it this way: being able to SEE the performer. Audio by itself is useless. He was born in 1908, people!

theothercanadian Says:

Apr 8, 2012 - Antonio Pasculli.

organman52 Says:

May 8, 2012 - Very well, but how about I ask YOU a question or two or three - what exactly do you like about this? what are its virtues? How is it distinguished from the million other pieces of its ilk?

1Thompsonmusic Says:

May 8, 2012 - I'm not answering YOUR stupid questions after you decided to call this 'PURE GARBAGE' how DARE you be so insulting!

organman52 Says:

May 9, 2012 - Typical - use some fallacious excuse to avoid the question. Whatever. And as to how I DARE to be so insulting - if it is the truth, I have no problem stating it.