Cage / Feldman - In a Silent Way | Stradivarius STR33819

Cage / Feldman - In a Silent Way

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Label: Stradivarius

Cat No: STR33819

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 27th April 2009

Contents

Works

Feldman
For Aaron Copland

Feldman
Piano Piece for piano (to Philip Guston)

Feldman
The viola in My Life III

Cage
Nocturne

Cage
Ophelia (for Jean Erdman)

Cage
Dream

Cage
Melodies Nos 5 and 6

Cage
Eight Whiskus

Cage
In a Landscape (for Louise Lippold)

Artists

Maurizio Barbetti (viola)
Rossella Spinosa (piano)

Works

Feldman
For Aaron Copland

Feldman
Piano Piece for piano (to Philip Guston)

Feldman
The viola in My Life III

Cage
Nocturne

Cage
Ophelia (for Jean Erdman)

Cage
Dream

Cage
Melodies Nos 5 and 6

Cage
Eight Whiskus

Cage
In a Landscape (for Louise Lippold)

Artists

Maurizio Barbetti (viola)
Rossella Spinosa (piano)

About

Precisely four decades separate the first piece in this selection: Ophelia (which dates from 1946) to the Eight Whiskus of 1985.

In the USA a succession of quiet revolutions evolved: from a phase of heroic experimentation to the ‘success’ of the minimalist school at the end of the 1970s, but on the way findng some pieces that could rightly be termed ‘seminal’.

One of the keystones for understanding American New Music in the late post-war period is the close relationship between sound and vision. The first graphic scores were born and constant associations commenced with Robert Rauschenberg and the protagonists of Abstract Expressionism like De Kooning, Philip Guston and Mark Rothko, the latter favoured by Feldman.

In downtown Manhattan, some of the most radical and subversive minds of the artistic world's established order saw lifelong fellowships and friendships formed, like those between Cage and Rauschenberg, Feldman and Guston and Cage and Feldman, albeit with some troubled moments.


(Rated 4/ 5 ) Reviewed by Andy Gill, The Independent, 24 April 2009

The chamber-jazz label ECM used to market itself with "The next best sound to silence", an apophthegm more appropriately applied to the New York School composers John Cage and his friend Morton Feldman.

Compared to his later five-hour opus "For Philip Guston", for example, the 1963 "Piano Piece (to Philip Guston)" included here is a model of stark brevity. The seven Cage pieces include the popular "Dream" and "In A Landscape", which confirm his music was about beauty, rather than theory.

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