Feldman, M: For Philip Guston
Julia Breuer (flutes), Matthias Engler (vibraphone, marimba) & Elmar Schrammel (piano, celesta)
This immaculately committed performance lasts almost four and a half hours, and shows how For Philip Guston, a trio for flutes, tuned percussion, and piano and celesta, defines the whole essence...
Feldman, M: For Philip Guston
Julia Breuer (flutes), Matthias Engler (vibraphone, marimba) & Elmar Schrammel (piano, celesta)
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This immaculately committed performance lasts almost four and a half hours, and shows how For Philip Guston, a trio for flutes, tuned percussion, and piano and celesta, defines the whole essence...
About
Wergo is proud to present Morton Feldman's 4-hour long trio For Philip Guston, performed by the ensemble Breuer-Engler-Schrammel. Feldman wrote this gossamer work in memory of his best friend for more than 20 years, the Canadian-born painter Philip Guston (1913-1980).The initial motive, C-G-A-flat-E-flat, refers to John Cage who had introduced the two men to each other in 1950, and the sound world evokes the methods used by Guston and other abstract expressionists in their art.
Contents and tracklist
- Julia Breuer, Matthias Engler, Elmar Schrammel
Awards and reviews
25th July 2008
This immaculately committed performance lasts almost four and a half hours, and shows how For Philip Guston, a trio for flutes, tuned percussion, and piano and celesta, defines the whole essence of what Feldman's late music was about. Listening to it is to become immersed in a unique musical world, one built from the simplest of four-note motifs, in which the smallest detail or change of emphasis assumes huge, expressive significance. Every so often the original motif returns, but each time its significance has shifted, because of a new context and the experience of what has happened since it was last heard. In that way Feldman maps his way around this unique, fragile musical space. It's the most extraordinary journey.