FELDMAN MORTON

(CD) ROTHKO CHAPEL
Rothko Chapel addresses a network of musical relationships and inspirations. The album opens with Morton Feldman's Rothko Chapel, named for the Houston, Texas multi-faith chapel built to house Mark Rothko's site-specific paintings. Feldman considered that his music lay "between categories, between time and space, between painting and music", and described the score as his "canvas". Amongst his most important influences were abstract painters, his friend Rothko prominent amongst them. (Rothko, for his part, yearned to "raise painting to the...
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(2CD) PATTERNS IN A CHROMATIC FIELD
American composer Morton Feldman is best known for being a founding member of the New York School, a group of musicians and artists that pursued an experimental style of composition in the 1950s and 60s. His works for cello and piano are included in full in this special collection. Among the composer's earlier works is the Two Pieces (1948), characterised by its emphatic chromaticism, in keeping with the avant-garde style of the era. After having met John Cage in 1950, and forming the New York School, there was a change in Feldman's compos...
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(CD) VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA
Ευρέως αναγνωρισμένη από τις ηχογραφήσεις της ECM New Series η Carolin Widmann έχει κινηθεί σε ένα μεγάλο εύρος μουσικής έκφρασης, από τον Schubert έως τον Ξενάκη. Το βραβευμένο άλμπουμ σύγχρονης μουσικής Phantasy of Spring, που κυκλοφόρησε το 2009, άνοιξε με το έργο του Morton Feldman, Η Άνοιξη του Χοσρόη. Τώρα επιστρέφει στο Feldman με μία από τις κεντρικές συνθέσεις του αμερικανού συνθέτη. Είναι το έργο υπό τον τίτλο Βιολί και Ορχήστρα, γραμμένο το 1979. Με μια σχεδόν εικαστική προσήλωση στη λεπτομέρεια και την υφή το έργο ξετυλίγεται σ...
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