Jeremy Eichler reviews pianist Peter Serkin including a performance of the ninety-seven-year-old Elliott Carter's Intermittences:
You can only guess at Mr. Carter's thicket of memories, but this taut, brittle nine-minute piece certainly captures the intensity of Proustian recollection.
From the program notes by the composer and Paul Griffiths:
The Proust reference is to a section in which Marcel returns to the Grand-Hôtel in the seaside resort of Balbec and, bending to unbutton his boots, is overwhelmed by the memory of his deceased grandmother.
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