Elliott Carter - Enchanted Preludes (1988)

“Enchanted Preludes is a birthday present for Ann Santen, commissioned by her husband, Harry, and composed in gratitude for their enthusiastic and deeply caring support of American music. It is a duet for flute and cello in which the two instruments combine their different characters and musical materials into statements of varying moods. The title comes from a poem of Wallace Stevens: The Pure Good of Theory, “All the Preludes to Felicity,” stanza no.7: Felicity, ah! Time is the hooded enemy, The inimical music, the enchanted space In which the enchanted preludes have their place.“ (Elliott Carter) Philippe Racine - Flute Thomas Demenga - Cello