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
123 cover

123

Pole
The Circle Of Time cover

The Circle Of Time

Amina Claudine Myers Trio
Live in Berlin ‘71 cover

Live in Berlin ‘71

Fred Van Hove, Han Bennink, Albert Mangelsdorff, Peter Brötzmann
The Hill cover

The Hill

David Murray Trio
Live in Vilnius cover

Live in Vilnius

David S. Ware Quartet
Dark Day cover

Dark Day

Fred Anderson Quartet
The Magic Triangle cover

The Magic Triangle

Famoudou Don Moye, Joseph Jarman, Don Pullen
ISM cover

ISM

Junius Paul
Ireti cover

Ireti

NikNak