Morton Feldman – The Ecstasy of the Moment (1997)
Classical/Avant-garde | FLAC lossless/3cd | cuesheets+logs | covers+booklet | 3h32m42s | 578mb
Label: Etcetera | cat. no. KTC 3003
Feldman's life as a composer is a series of untiring steps to penetrate reality and enter an inner territory whose intensity can only be recognized by the memory traces it leaves.
The titles of his compositions often hint at a journey to a hidden world, for example, Atlantis and Journey to the End of the Night, or they refer to mysterious confrontations or particular choices along the way, such as I Met Heine on the Rue Fürstenberg, Intersection, or Ixion (while journeying to the underworld Orpheus met Ixion being tortured on his wheel).
Creatively, Feldman's is an art of 'becoming', a new Feldman always painfully emerging from the dying ruins of his previous work so that the search can continue on a new level.
This whole endeavor can be misconceived if seen predominantly through the lens of his later music, for his life's work is a single story of which the earlier works are the crucial opening verses. To understand the latter we must look at the background from which he came rather than our knowledge of his final destination.
He was born in New York in 1926; studied piano from the age of twelve with Madame Maurina-Press who had been a close friend of Scriabin and a pupil of Busoni. At 15 he started composition lessons with Wallingford Riegger who had been a pupil of Max Bruch. At 18 he transferred to Stefan Wolpe, another pupil of Busoni, and during this period he frequently met Varèse, who had known Debussy. Incidentally, it was through Wolpe that Feldman became friendly with the pianist David Tudor for whom he composed the piece Illusions (1949), and later introduced to his last and most important mentor, John Cage (himself a pupil of Schoenberg). With these connections he could see his work as making legitimate claims on the inheritance of the European heartlands as well as the traditions of the New World.
Feldman's quest was essentially that of the romantic artist, but his significance at the end of the 20th century partly derives from his paradoxical ability to be committed to his own interior poetry and yet simultaneously embrace the detached and abstract aural relationships which arose when certain compositional controls were abandoned and sounds liberated from the demands of overt self expression. Superficially it may be thought that indeterminacy held little significance for Feldman's mature work, but none of it could have been conceivable without his maintaining strong roots in the radicalism that first accepted chance encounters.
Frank Denyer and James Fulkerson on Feldman’s search for The Ecstasy of the Moment
There was a request for this release. As far as I know, the discs aren’t anywhere around in lossless. So here they are.
Tracks:
cd1
01. Only (1947) [0:01:30.70]
02. Projection 1 [0:02:55.45]
03. Projection 2 [0:04:44.50]
04. Projection 3 [0:01:51.72]
05. Projection 4 [0:04:35.13]
06. Projection 5 [0:02:25.42]
07. Intersection 2 [0:10:57.43]
08. Intersection 3 [0:02:40.52]
09. Intersection 4 [0:03:09.55]
10. Piece for Four Pianos [0:06:37.48]
11. Two Pianos [0:07:46.47]
12. Piano Four Hands [0:05:59.38]
13. Piano Piece 1964 [0:07:31.30]
cd2
01. Durations 1 [0:12:41.17]
02. Durations 2 [0:06:14.37]
03. Durations 3-I [0:11:12.71]
04. Durations 3-II [0:03:53.57]
05. Durations 3-III [0:09:00.60]
06. Durations 3-IV [0:07:46.53]
07. Durations 4 [0:05:39.15]
08. Durations 5 [0:07:27.10]
09. Vertical Thoughts I [0:01:40.45]
10. Vertical Thoughts III (?) [0:10:50.45]
cd3
01. Voice & Instruments II [0:10:09.32]
02. Instruments I [0:20:29.30]
03. Voice, Violin, and piano [0:06:01.70]
04. Insturments III [0:17:41.20]
05. Bass Clarinet and Percussion [0:19:35.08]
Performers:
The Barton Workshop
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