Morton Feldman: Trio cover

Morton Feldman: Trio

Composer
Released

This nearly two-hour piece for piano, violin and cello (played by Aki Takahashi, Marc Sabat, and Rohan de Saram respectively) features many, many small figures, sometimes as little as a single note struck and then allowed to decay at length, or a gentle exchange between two of the three instruments, rolled out in a seemingly endless parade of intimate sonic moments. It’s so patient in its unfolding, so gentle in its presentation, and so beautifully recorded that sometimes a particularly deep inhalation from one of the players will register as loudly as some of the notes they’re playing. The magic of Feldman’s music is that its slowness and duration make it impossible to hold it in your memory; it drifts by as a series of brief exeriences that are beautiful as they occur but soon replaced in the mind by other, newer experiences, just like life itself.

Phil Freeman

Suggestions
Sound cover

Sound

Roscoe Mitchell Sextet
Bap-Tizum cover

Bap-Tizum

Art Ensemble of Chicago
Audentity cover

Audentity

Klaus Schulze
Koksofen cover

Koksofen

Caspar Brötzmann Massaker
Molecular cover

Molecular

James Brandon Lewis Quartet
Crescent cover

Crescent

John Coltrane Quartet
Crumbling Brain cover

Crumbling Brain

Full Blast, Peter Brötzmann
Black Woman cover

Black Woman

Sonny Sharrock
Pillars cover

Pillars

Tyshawn Sorey
Chaos Magick cover

Chaos Magick

John Zorn
Montreux Jazz Festival cover

Montreux Jazz Festival

Ronald Shannon Jackson & the Decoding Society
Koma Saxo cover

Koma Saxo

Petter Eldh, Koma Saxo