EPISODE · Oct 1, 2011 · 11 MIN
Elliott Carter's String Quartet No.3
from Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics · host BBC Radio 3
Novelist and poet Mark Haddon explains what it is about Elliott Carter's String Quartet No.3 that reminds him of an argumentative family meal; the composer himself describes with relish his 'eclipses' of sound; and Paul Griffiths explains Carter's use of metric modulation.
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