Feldman, Piano and String Quartet
Feldman, Piano and String Quartet, Vicki Ray (Piano), Eclipse Quartet, Publisher: Bridge
Familiarity with Morton Feldman never prepares you for what you hear from his works for the first time. My intitial reaction was boredom with this but that was completely dispelled on a second hearing. The music, as always, is reflective and meditative with ample empty spaces. This lengthy piece (79 minutes) needs to be heard in the right frame of mind. Piano chords spark the quartet into brief life, then eventually it becomes blurred as to whether piano precedes quartet, responds to it, or is part of it. My second listening was with headphones and I lost myself in this sound world, was mesmerised and revitalised by it.
Morton Feldman:
Familiarity with Morton Feldman never prepares you for what you hear from his works for the first time. My intitial reaction was boredom with this but that was completely dispelled on a second hearing. The music, as always, is reflective and meditative with ample empty spaces. This lengthy piece (79 minutes) needs to be heard in the right frame of mind. Piano chords spark the quartet into brief life, then eventually it becomes blurred as to whether piano precedes quartet, responds to it, or is part of it. My second listening was with headphones and I lost myself in this sound world, was mesmerised and revitalised by it.
Morton Feldman:
