[silence] ECM Morton Feldman - The Viola in My Life

[Ralph Lichtensteiger]

dear all,

new ecm Feldman recording...

Morton Feldman - The Viola in My Life

Marek Konstantynowicz viola
Cikada Ensemble
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Christian Eggen conductor

The Viola in My Life I (August 24, 1970)
for viola (solo), flute, violin, violoncello, piano and percussion

from the ecm website:

After a long period of working with indeterminacy and graphic  
notation, Morton Feldman fixed every parameter of “The Viola in My  
Life” (written in 1970/71) – notes, timing, duration, dynamics – and  
still the feeling conveyed is of an exquisite tenuousness, as if the  
viola is a visitor to the composer’s musical universe, where sounds  
seem to be discovered in the quiet moment of their playing: “My  
intention was to think of melody and motivic fragments – somewhat in  
the way Robert Rauschenberg uses photographs in his painting – and  
superimpose this on a static sound world more characteristic of my  
music.”
‘Painting with sounds’ is central to Feldman’s music; he was a  
composer at least as close to the abstract painters as to musical  
contemporaries.

http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/New_Series/1700/1798.php?cat=/ 
Labels/ECM+New+Series&we_start=0&lvredir=712

best
ralph li
http://www.lichtensteiger.de/

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