Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet (1985)

[AyumuVanguard]

@bbnut Your opinion can't hurt us. It can only hurt you. I'd rather listen to an hour and a half of this than an hour and a half of *insert random corporate pop artist*.

[AAAbstractJack]

This piece is clearly a glimpse of genius.

[AmandiMasen]

i like it..but..i dont understand. :( i want to understand..:(

[AAAbstractJack]

@AmandiMasen

I do understand...

don't think...

listen only

and then you'll

understand.

[avb20540]

@eldonthedevil Haha!! You're response here to my comment is pretty funny. Not gonna lie. Helped me get into a better mood because I have a midterm for school tomorrow.

[TheFate23]

i love Feldman style, this spectral music. *_*

[AAAbstractJack]

@TheFate23 Spectral Music?

You are on the correct path - there's much more out there.

Feldman's music is, most of the time, brilliant.

[PolkRidgeAesthete]

As filled with Feldmanesque wonder and mystery as anything he wrote.

[Lisette224]

musica hermosa bella ... Feldam is a genius ... perfect music

[AAAbstractJack]

@Lisette224

So true.

[LererDesignStudio]

This piece will be performed by Vicki Ray with the Eclipse Quartet in Los Angeles.

Nov. 30th, 2010

Zipper Concert Hall

[bbnut]

@LererDesignStudio

I'd like to thank the five people that make it all the way through beforehand. Apologize to your date for dragging her to this, and if nothing else, you saw the end of classical music go out with a whimper and not a bang.. It had a good run, but nobody could justify paying to sit through an hour and a half of this.

[LererDesignStudio]

@bbnut Here's a John Cage quote:

"The day after I finally won the Italian TV quiz on mushrooms, I received anonymously in the mail Volume II of a French book on mushrooms that had been published in Germany. I was studying it in a crowded streetcar going to downtown Milan.  The lady next to me said, “What are you reading that for? That’s finished.”

[bbnut]

@LererDesignStudio

The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright - And this was very odd, because it was The middle of the night

[flibbertergibbet]

One of the best things he ever did. I love the way the performers keep a sense of forward motion going throughout, so it's hypnotic rather than suffocating. Many thanks for this.

[kepuysac]

notable pieza

la magnifica honestidad del espacio, como diria e.e.cummings.

[poypoy09]

i can make these sounds with my mouth, no big deal

[EdiEllerymissing]

Then you have a really weird, awful mouth and a really small brain ;-)!

[avb20540]

Nice! I'm currently studying contemporary music. This is very interesting. Feldman also had an interest in Persian rugs. Perhaps the complexity of the interwoven patterns in the rugs can be made parallel to the delicate, yet heavily expressive texture of this piece. Nice recording!

[minirausch]

there's other pieces that have a more direct connection to his interest in 'teppich' but all of his late works are connected to the ideas he derived from his study and collection -- not just the patterns but, more specifically, the way in handmade rugs and hand-dyed thread that the patterns are not quite symmetrical. this 'crippled symmetry' has its own expressive power.

[posquint]

@avb20540

I think THE MUSIC OF MORTON FELDMAN is a book I read that talked about 'crippled symmetry' with regard to him and his compositional intent.

[afkhajiit]

@avb20540 GJ()_UOW#

[lizly7]

genius

[MrRaph87]

j'aime beaucoup cette partition de Feldman ... la dernière partie surtout !! (avec cet "arpège" de 6 notes répété sur l'ensemble du registre, au piano ...).

seriez-vous interessé de diffuser les 75 minutes de l'oeuvre, intégralement ? je crois que l'oeuvre mérite qu'on s'y attarde un peu ...

merci d'avance !!

[minirausch]

on va voir.. =) j'ai pas beaucoup de temps cet été. bien sur, on doit écouter toute la pièce...

[MrRaph87]

merci infiniment de votre part !!

je connais déjà bien l'oeuvre, mais c'est effectivement bien venu de pouvoir la diffuser, même s'il faut beaucoup de temps à lui accorder ...

"thanks a lot, dear Mr Rausch !!"

[quazichimp]

I love feldman's work. and for me, this is one of his best pieces. what is it about him that gets me so?....i have listened to

may of his works...they are always haunting and beautiful. there is something about feldman that is so....

.....always there...for me.

[syr1811]

This is beautiful, haunting. Very spare, but with enough flesh for expression. This is my first taste of Feldman, and I like it very much. I'm enjoying my musical journey very much here. Thanks for sharing this, minirausch, I love many of these modern classical composers even though I don't have much knowledge of them, I know what I like. lol

[cristlang]

1) I´d like to correct the title: (GELL MINIRAUSCH): FELDMAN CALLED IT PIANO, VIOLIN, VIOLA, CELLO!!! (There aren´t 2 violins just one so it´s not a string quartet). It´s Feldman´s last work, written in 1987.

2) The piece is excellent, I even prefer it to Palais de Mari or Triadic memories, I had a recording of the piece where the piano arpeggio at the beginning and throughout the piece is played more slowly what I prefer, but this recording´s great, too.

[minirausch]

actually you're speaking of a different piece -- this one comes from '85. i've seen the score of "piano, violin, viola and cello" as well, looks like a marvelous piece, but as far as i know it's currently unavailable on recording. there's another recording of this piece (piano/SQ) with aki takahashi and the kronos quartet.

[kylebobbydunn]

"Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello (1987)" One of his last and longest works, should be available on the Hat (now)Art label.

[minirausch]

as for this piece itself, it's one of his most austere pieces, and that has its own appeal; i prefer the slightly more differentiated scores, though. "patterns in a chromatic field" is my favorite late work by a long shot, but i love it all. feldman's music is very dear to me....

[cristlang]

Thank´s for letting me know better... I´ll look it up anyway. I agree you have really a great music taste. Feldman is the musical expression - at least as he was able to achieve it with the posibilities of soud - of non-dualism. It is at the same time "emotional", without being a conceptual constuction of what "traditional" composers want to express emotionally, and well constructed, without wanting to reach only musicians who are lost in their music architecture conceptual system.

[cristlang]

But I thought normally no one can like ANY music, there seems to be something wrong with any kind of music... Pop is too stupid for intellectual ones, Boulez is too intellectual for emotionally superficial ones. Feldman wants to go beyond these extremes, but he might be too boring for both Boulez and Britney Spears fans. There is no music everyone could like..but there are people in the world who go beyond all the limits, they are ok with any kind of music or noise, they must be the enlightened.

[ddakhtik]

@cristlang I am sorry to recorrect your comment but this piece is really PIANO AND STRING QUARTET, written in 1985...