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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. Performances generally last between 80 and 90 minutes, relatively modest by the standards of late Feldman, but the self-contained world this music creates is utterly distinctive, and the way of listening to it unique "Up to an hour you think about form", Feldman once wrote, "but after an hour and a half it's scale". The tempo never changes, the dynamic range is limited and the musical material scanty: rocking chords that never quite repeat exactly, long held single notes and an upward arpeggio that acts like a point of reference throughout. 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: in Piano and String Quartet, Lang says, "you can hear Webern in the distance in the way each gesture, each note, each phrase matters. It's just that in Feldman's music there are so many, many more of them." **** --Guardian,12/01/12
Radiant account of a modern masterpiece. --The Strad,Apr'12
This Bridge disc has a fine pianist in Vicki Ray, one of the West Coast's leading new music specialists, who has previously recorded Feldman's Crippled Symmetry and For Christian Wolff with the California EAR Unit. --International Piano, May/June '12
Radiant account of a modern masterpiece. --The Strad,Apr'12
This Bridge disc has a fine pianist in Vicki Ray, one of the West Coast's leading new music specialists, who has previously recorded Feldman's Crippled Symmetry and For Christian Wolff with the California EAR Unit. --International Piano, May/June '12
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Composed two years before his death, the ultra-impressionistic Piano and String Quartet is one of the most beguiling of Feldmans 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 Feldmans 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.
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