Complete Music for Violin & Piano cover

Complete Music for Violin & Piano

Composer
Released

Violinist Marc Sabat and pianist Stephen Clarke play six pieces by Feldman on this two-CD set. Of course, the first five add up to only 32 minutes of music, and the last one is the 80-minute behemoth For John Cage, which begins on Disc 1 and concludes on Disc 2. What’s interesting about the short pieces — Piece for Violin and Piano, Projection 4, Extensions 1, Vertical Thoughts 2, all lasting between two and five minutes, and even the 15-minute Spring of Chosroes — is that they all have the same qualities of space and indeterminacy found in Feldman’s longer works. Tiny exchanges of one or two notes (a plucked violin string matched by an ominous piano chord, say) appear seemingly out of nowhere, there’s a moment of silence, and something similar but different happens. For John Cage has at times a remarkably steady pulse and continuous melody, but it still seems to float past like a drifting cloud.

Phil Freeman

Suggestions
Liberty cover

Liberty

Dayna Stephens Trio
To Start With, Let’s Remove The Colour cover

To Start With, Let’s Remove The Colour

Keiji Haino
Sacred Ceremonies cover

Sacred Ceremonies

Bill Laswell, Wadada Leo Smith, Milford Graves
Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind cover

Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind

King Crimson
Trio Jeepy cover

Trio Jeepy

Branford Marsalis
The Milwaukee Tapes, Vol. 1 cover

The Milwaukee Tapes, Vol. 1

Fred Anderson Quartet
World Construct cover

World Construct

Matthew Shipp Trio
Body and Soul cover

Body and Soul

David Murray Quartet
EVOL cover

EVOL

Sonic Youth
The Peach Orchard cover

The Peach Orchard

In Order to Survive, William Parker
Live Volume V cover

Live Volume V

Fred Anderson
Swirling cover

Swirling

Sun Ra Arkestra