14 minutes
Date 2004
Dialogues for piano and chamber orchestra is a conversation between the soloist and the orchestra: responding to each other, sometimes interrupting the other, or arguing. The single varied movement is entirely derived from a small group of harmonies and rhythms.
Commissioned by the BBC for the brilliant young pianist, Nicolas Hodges, it was composed in New York during 2003.
Elliott Carter
Dialogues was commissioned by the BBC and premiered by Nicolas Hodges and London Sinfonietta, conducted by Oliver Knussen, on 23 January 2004 at Queen Elizabeth Hall.
