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Aki Takahashi/Rohan De Saram/Marc Sabat: Morton Feldman - Trio

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Like his friend and collaborator John Cage, the avant-garde American composer Morton Feldman (1926-87) developed and sustained a reputation for extreme musical risk during his 61 years, playing freely and loosely with such areas as timbre, non-traditional notation and improvisation. Feldman authored the 1980 composition 'Trio' that appears in this instrumental performance release, interpreted here by violinist Marc Sabat, cellist Rohan de Saram and pianist Aki Takahashi.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/12/2010
UPC:	0764593021698
Original Release:	2009
Source:	Mode
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, DTS 5.1-Channel Surround Sound, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:16:00
Sales rank:	56,389

Special Features

Video essay on feldman and trio by the noted german composer and feldman expert Walter Zimmermann (31 min); Extensive liner notes by Sabine Feisst in english, german, and french

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Josje ter Haar	Primary Artist,Violin
Aki Takahashi	Piano
Rohan De Saram	Cello
Job ter Haar	Primary Artist,Cello
John Snijders	Primary Artist,Piano
Marc Sabat	Violin
Morton Feldman	Primary Artist
Ives Ensemble	Ensemble

Technical Credits

John Snijders	Performer
Ruediger Orth	Engineer
Pia Uehlinger	Process Engineering
Job ter Haar	Performer
Richard Rijnvos	Advisor
Christoph Classen	Recording Supervision
Morton Feldman	Composer
Peter Pfister	Mastering
Art Lange	Liner Notes
Werner X. Uehlinger	Producer
Bernd Leukert	Producer
Ann Holyoke Lehmann	Cover Art
Walter Zimmermann	Liner Notes
Jean Vermeil	Liner Notes
Josje ter Haar	Performer

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Editorial Reviews

What is perhaps most striking about Morton Feldman's quiet, wandering music is how distinctly ambiguous it is. No images or emotions are conjured up from particularly constructed places in the score. His scores -- and this one specifically, his "Trio" of 1980, played gorgeously by these members of the Ives Ensemble -- are about the relationships among notes, instruments, and spaces. They are, as this piece illustrates so wonderfully, investigations of the possible, and they are written without hope or expectation for resolve or desire. The quiet (Feldman's works are meant to be played back on the stereo at a level just above that of silence), meandering spaces incorporated in the work make each phrase carry its own weight against another. When, in the opening, all three instruments play separate phrases together for merely a couple of seconds, that investigation is clearly under way. Timbre and pitch, without question, take precedence over harmony. In fact, it can be argued that Feldman was not only unconcerned with harmony, but that he was trying to do away with it and melody altogether -- and pretty much succeeded. The "Trio" is imperfect in this way, much to the satisfaction of its composer. It carries the listener inside a precisely constructed sound world where one can roam very freely, touching upon whatever appears, either as relationship or personal reflection, and then gently slide through to whatever is next until, at the end, the only reverberation -- which feels a part of the work itself -- is silence. ~ Thom Jurek

Aki Takahashi/Rohan De Saram/Marc Sabat: Morton Feldman - Trio

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