Feldman: For Philip Guston [IMPORT]

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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 7619925610428 Format: Box set Label: Hat Now Series Manufacturer: Hat Now Series Number Of Discs: 4 Publisher: Hat Now Series Release Date: 1992-07-01 Running Time: 265 Studio: Hat Now Series
Editorial Reviews: There is a considerable amount of austerity in almost all Morton Feldman's compositions, but For Philip Guston is exceptional. It's exceptional in its unyieldingly austere spaciousness and in the composer's equally unyielding conviction that time was not an issue for the unfolding of his compositions. For Philip Guston lasts over four hours, with only three instrumentalists--Eberhard Blum on flute, piccolo, and alto flute; Nils Vigeland on piano and celesta; and Jan Williams on glockenspiel, vibraphone, marimba, and chimes. Invoking the visual art of abstract expressionist painter Guston, Feldman utilizes crawling, eerie atonalities as well as extremely generous spacing and phrase construction to make one of New Music's most categorical refractions of other new arts movements in the post-World War II era. Here, Feldman broadens the colors of each instrument's palette by focusing so intently on the way notes take shape--from the first wisps to the dissonant stretches, to the luminescent fades. --Andrew Bartlett