Morton Feldman: Best of the Best

Early in his career, Feldman (1926-1987) might have been influenced by John Cage. But Feldman proceeded to notate his music very carefully, creating slow, spacious, atonal works that were concerned with both pitch relationships and the texture and ambience of sheer sound. His later works especially were long, stark, and abstractly lyrical. Here are his essential recordings.

	Feldman: Rothko Chapel, Why Patterns?
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Amazon.com essential recording Morton Feldman's brilliant Rothko Chapel, composed in 1971, is generally considered to be one of Feldman's masterpieces. It is also one of the few works he wrote for a large ensemble. Rothko Chapel is a meditative piece for his friend, the American artist, Mark Rothko, who died in 1970. Though it has the hallmarks of Feldman's (sometimes excruciatingly) slow pacing, it also has a wider palette of colors and sound textures than most of his works. It goes from near-silence to lyric moods...Read more
	Feldman: Piano & String Quartet / Kronos Quartet, Takahashi
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Amazon.com essential recording Written two years before his death in 1987, Morton Feldman's Piano and String Quartet is a shimmering, pristine musical event. Contrasting Aki Takahashi's widely-spaced piano arpeggios with Kronos Quartet's extended chords, Feldman allows lingering sounds from either the piano or the strings to haze over many of the piece's near-silences. Kronos plays their parts with tremulous fragility, often making pointedly clear the viola's musical valley between the leading violins and the trailing cello....Read more
	Feldman: Coptic Light / Tilson Thomas, New World Symphony
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Amazon.com's Best of 1999 Quiet and expansive, Morton Feldman's Coptic Light isn't your typical classical CD. Performed by Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony, these works by the late composer, atmospheric and tension-filled, are ready to erupt at any moment. Classical music that moves at a snail's pace and sounds exciting? You bet. --Jason Verlinde Read more
	Feldman: The Ecstasy Of The Moment [BOX SET]
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Amazon.com essential recording Every aspect of this 3-CD collection, from its breadth to its precise sound to its expansive booklet to its bargain price, is top-notch. Morton Feldman's compositions, from the starkest to the most intense, have deserved a collection of this nature for decades. To hear the string of five-part pieces (Projection, Durations, and Vertical Thoughts) laid end to end is amazingly instructive. Feldman excels from his earliest at the study of pitch relationships and intricate, luminescent structures....Read more
	Feldman: for Philip Guston / California EAR Unit
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Amazon.com essential recording For Philip Guston (1984) is quintessential--and very essential--Morton Feldman. His studies of pitch and notational austerities under John Cage produced one of the most unique voices in late 20th century American music. Feldman, who died in 1987, had also befriended a number of New York art world luminaries and the painter Philip Guston was one. For Philip Guston is technically a "chamber" work for piccolo, flute, piano, celesta, glockenspiel, vibraphone, marimba, and chimes--and lasts well over...Read more