Carter Symphonia: Sum fluxae pretium spei

Carter's late, magnificent work demonstrates how it is possible to write a symphony in a modernist language while remaining faithful to tradition. Well, possible if you are a genius like Carter. 
Originally written and performed in three separate movements due to his advanced age and not knowing if he would finish it as a complete symphony, it still coheres together well. The slow movement is beautiful and tragic; the last movement a light finale.
Delightful that Elliott is still with us at the age of 102, as I write this and some 15 years after the Sinfonia was completed.