Morton Feldman Discography of CDs

Recording information: UB Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (06/12/2000).

This new release on Sub Rosa is the third in a series of three concentrating on avantgarde piano compositions (prev. volumes: Triadic ...

Track Listing of songs: Projection 1, for solo cello; Projection 2, for flute, trumpet, violin, cello & piano; Projection 3, for 2 pianos; Projection ...

This monolithic four-plus hour work, composed very late in Feldman's career, is among his longest; only "String Quartet No. 2" (at six ...

Fifth in a series with previously unreleased works by well-known composers, this 117-minute 2CD set features the first release of Artist's mammoth work.

Recording information: UB Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (06/12/2000).

Avant-garde music professor Artist casts the listener into a black web of trigonometry in this Japanese import, recorded in 1981. Heavily...

Track Listing of songs: The Viola in My Life 1, for viola, flute, percussion, piano, violin & cello; The Viola in My Life 2, ...

This new release on Sub Rosa is the third in a series of three concentrating on avantgarde piano compositions (prev. volumes: Triadic ...

Charles Curtis/Aleck Karis Recording information: The Neuroscience Institute, San Diego, CA (05/2003). Author: Artist. Personnel: Charles Curtis (cello); Aleck Karis (piano). Audio Mixer: Michael McCoy.

Ninth in a series with previously unreleased works by well-known composers, this 128-minute 2CD set features the world premiere recordings of Morton ...

The two works on this album were Artist's only compositions for chamber orchestra, and though the ensemble appears to be treated...

Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972), though not as well-known as, say, Copland, Cage, and Stockhausen, is an important figure in modern music. Wolpe taught ...

All tracks have been digitally mastered using 24-bit technology. Listening to Feldman's For Samuel Beckett is like walking through a door into an entirely different, self-contained world that had been there long before you knew about it and would continue after you left. It's as though the composition has no set beginning or end; it seems to begin when the listener peeks in and "ends" when the listener leaves, but one has the sense that it had been going on for ages and you just happened to catch a glimpse of a small sub-section of it. One of the very few Feldman pieces for ...

Feldman: Viola in my Life, etc / Blum, Williams, Feldman CD Ajemian / Blum / Feldman / Phillips / Tudor

Originally written as a radio play in 1961, and broadcast by the BBC the following year with music by the author's cousin John, "Words and Music" was subsequently withdrawn by Samuel Beckett until he was invited to include it in a festival of his radio work that took eventually took place at the end of the 1980s. Having been "pleased" by Artist's opera based on his work, Neither, Beckett suggested the American undertake the task of providing music, which Feldman agreed to. "He's a word man, a fantastic word man," the composer enthused, "and I always felt that I was a note man. And I think that's what brought me to him. The kind of shared longing that he has, this saturated, unending longing." Scored for two speakers (one of whom also sings), piano, percussion, two flutes, two violins, and cello, Feldman's score is atypical in the context of his late works -- and this is one of his very last -- in that it is remarkably concise, consisting of little more than a set of tiny, exquisite haikus. These are indeed crystalline and beautiful, but one is left with the overriding impression that the words have somehow gained the upper hand here; one can imagine Beckett's text perfectly well with other music (as was the case with its first broadcast), and arguably without music altogether, but whether Feldman's music could stand on its own is something of a moot point. ~ Dan Warburton

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