Piano and string quartet is a studio album by the kronos quartet and aki takahashi. Piano and string quartet, an album by morton feldman, kronos quartet on spotify. Many of feldmans late works are quite lengthy, and this work is no exception. A rarely heard and epic achievement, the music creates a trancelike focus. Feldman bass clarinet and percussion november 2019 75. Piano and string quartet by morton feldman 19261987. He has often been called englands finest native composer. Feldman fans have been waiting for a recording of string quartet ii since feldman wrote it eighteen years ago. Morton feldmans string quartet ii and triadic memories.
Morton feldmans string quartet ii 1983 at the lincoln center festival in. Purcell incorporated italian and french stylistic elements but devised a peculiarly english style of baroque music. Morton feldman 1926 1987 piano and string quartet 1985 a major figure in 20thcentury music, morton feldman was a pioneer of indeterminate music, a development associated with the. The late morton feldman s legendary monolithic string quartet finally comes to compact disc almost 20 years after it was written, and some after it was debuted by the kronos quartet for the cbc as a live broadcast. Morton feldman january 12, 1926 september 3, 1987 was an american composer a major figure in 20thcentury music, feldman was a pioneer of indeterminate music, a development associated with the experimental new york school of composers also including john cage, christian wolff, and earle brown. In february, 1981 the string quartet was performed at the calarts contemporary music festival, and feldman later said that the audience was so full of tension that it was like a lynch mob. It argues that there are five stages of human needs that motivate our.
This chapter presents reichs thoughts about morton feldman, expressing his love and admiration for his music. Considering feldman, length, manner of composition, and perception of time can be. As in all of feldman s music, simple gestures create enormous intensity. Despite my appreciation of feldman and the kronos quartet, i found it to be painful to listen to just ever so faint tinkling and bowing that goes on and on. We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. The very beckettian for samuel beckett, which is one of feldman s last works, is also a masterpiece. Throughout the 1970s feldman had written many works for orchestra, including his outstanding still life concerto works ie, cello and orchestra, piano. He has performed with john zorn, john abercrombie, the masada string trio, dave douglas, uri caine, and billy hart he was a member of the civic orchestra of chicago and played in many bar bands in chicago. Reich cites two works, piano and string quartet 1985 and the turfan fragments, that have made a strong impression on him. The resulting pieces became greatly expanded in scale, at least nine lasting more than ninety minutes. In his last compositions, feldman became interested in the use of time and proportion. Hat hut piano and string quartet 2001 hatnowart 128 1985 piano and string quartet hat hut string quartet ii 2001 hatnowart 4144 1983 string quartet no.
Early piano works 2003 hatnowart 8 1950 two intermissions 1952. Feldman was able to combine extremely chromatic harmony, soft dynamics, and generally slow flexible tempos with minimal phase and variation techniques. Musical rhetoric, narrative, drama, and their negation in morton. The score is 124 pages long kronos performed a somewhat edited version, and is notated.
Pianist aki takahashi and the kronos quartet perform this nearly one and a half hour long work with gentle attention to detail and the apparent patience of job. Piano and string quartet with aki takahashi, piano album spotlight in 1990 steve reich received a grammy award for best contemporary composition for different trains as. Violin 1, violin 2, viola, cello, piano sheet music book by morton feldman 19261987. Contrasting aki takahashis widelyspaced piano arpeggios with kronos quartets extended chords, feldman allows lingering sounds from either the piano or the strings to haze over many of the pieces nearsilences. Vikingur olafsson piano sigrun edvaldsdottir violin bryndis halla gylfadottir cello una sveinbjarnardottir violin thorunn osk marinosdottir cello. Morton feldmans large scale work simply entitled violin and string quartet commences with the violin soloist contemplating the minor seventh interval a.
Two pieces for clarinet and string quartet 1961 durations 5, for horn, vibraphone, harp, piano or celesta, violin, and cello 1961 the straits of magellan, flute, horn, trumpet, harp, electric guitar, piano, and double bass 1961. Ue now digital product printed product morton feldman. It is a recording of one of morton feldmans final works. Morton feldman kronos quartet with aki takahashi piano. Its roots extend into the late classical period, when piano concertos were sometimes transcribed for piano with string quartet accompaniment.
A disc of feldman s for john cage, and piano and string quartet, taken from those concerts, appeared two years ago, and this second instalment pairs the celloand piano. Piano and string quartet, a song by morton feldman, kronos quartet on spotify we and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. Recognized for works he composed for merce cunningham, feldman wrote his quartet no. Piano and string quartet ives ensemble on allmusic 2001. If you are considering this score, you probably know what youre getting into. Morton feldman s second string quartet is one of the most infamous pieces of the 20th century. Even if the ives ensemble blew it, this record would be a milestone.
November 21, 1695, a baroque composer, is generally considered to be one of englands greatest composers. Morton feldman kronos quartet with aki takahashi piano and string quartet. Piano and string quartet for piano and string quartet ue17972. Contrary to what is suggested by the score, we hear groups of sounds, not. New york native and avantgarde composer morton feldman composed this work just two years before his death in 1987, and it haunts the listener into a prism of melancholy. Henry purcell free sheet music to download in pdf, mp3. Shifting, unsettling, and yet every bit hypnotic, pianist aki takahashi and the worldrenowned kronos quartet conjure up the ghost of feldman to wander the streets of new york as if they were abandoned. While much of feldman s later music is long in duration, this was his endurance test.
Piano and string quartet, a song by morton feldman, kronos. Written two years before his death in 1987, morton feldman s piano and string quartet is a shimmering, pristine musical event. Feldman worked in chicago from 19731980, in nashville, tennessee from 19801986, in new york city and western europe from 1986. Morton feldman piano and string quartet 1985 youtube. Two pieces for clarinet and string quartet 1961 dedicated to david oppenheim clarinet and string quartet 1983 dedicated to alan hacker.
While the related chamber music genres of the piano trio and piano quartet were established in the eighteenth century by mozart and others, the piano quintet did not come into its own as a genre until the nineteenth century. Feldman clarinet and string quartet for clarinet and. The first page of the score of crippled symmetry illustrates this. Morton feldman piano this item is not available anymore with the seller diarezzo preshipment lead time. Feldman string quartet and orchestra for string quartet. Morton feldman clarinet and string quartet 1995, cd. Provided to youtube by nonesuch piano and string quartet kronos quartet morton feldman. It is an extremely useful score that is fairly large and in feldman s own hand. Feldman s works are characterized by notational innovations that he developed to create his.
The strings, also pianissimo, play mostly sustained chords, with none of the busy internal dialogues that characterise classical quartet writing. Examples include string quartet ii 1983, for philip guston 1984, and bass. I f any single piece epitomises the beauty and the hypnotic power of morton feldman s final works, it is piano and string quartet, composed in. His composition for philip guston lasts four hours, and his string quartet ii can take up to six hours to perform. For philip guston, a trio for flutist doubling on piccolo and alto flute, pianist doubling. Cd, album elektra nonesuch, elektra nonesuch, elektra nonesuch 7559793202, 9 793202, 793202. Clarinet and string quartet has its own sound, texture, and point of view. This monumental project explores the limits of music and marks the chicago debut of morton feldman s sixhourlong work. With its chords based on semitones, this nearly 80minute, 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. Feldman composed piano and string quartet for aki takahashi and the kronos quartet, who recorded it for elektra in 1993. Notational image, transformation and the grid in the late music of.
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