Feldman, M: Piano and String Quartet
Vicki Ray (piano)
Eclipse Quartet
Feldman's music is an acquired taste, but if you have never listened to it, this work is an excellent place to start. If you do know his music, and don't have this work, then you should.
Feldman, M: Piano and String Quartet
Vicki Ray (piano)
Eclipse Quartet
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Feldman's music is an acquired taste, but if you have never listened to it, this work is an excellent place to start. If you do know his music, and don't have this work, then you should.
About
Composed two years before his death, the ultra-impressionistic Piano and String Quartet is one of the most beguiling of Feldman’s late works. With its chords based on semitones, this nearly 80-minute, single movement work floats in a typical Feldmanesque haze, yet progresses with a forward moving determination and logic that sets it apart from some of Feldman’s more static pieces of this period. It is performed by Vicki Ray, one of the leading American interpreters of contemporary music, and the Eclipse Quartet.
Contents and tracklist
Feldman, M:
Piano & String Quartet
Work length1:19:10
This work is only available as an album download.
- Vicki Ray
- Eclipse Quartet
Awards and reviews
December 2012
Feldman's music is an acquired taste, but if you have never listened to it, this work is an excellent place to start. If you do know his music, and don't have this work, then you should.
12th January 2012
If any single piece epitomises the beauty and the hypnotic power of Morton Feldman's final works, it is Piano and String Quartet, composed in 1985, just two years before his death..This poised, ravishing recording by Vicki Ray and the Eclipse Quartet comes with an outstanding sleeve note by the composer David Lang, which among other perceptions points up the relationship between Feldman's music and that of Webern
