Feldman Morton - Viola in My Life, The - Konstantynowicz Marek (viola)
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"Although there have been numerous recordings of each work, this is currently the only available disc to collate them. Marek Konstantynowicz has an admirable...
"Although there have been numerous recordings of each work, this is currently the only available disc to collate them. Marek Konstantynowicz has an admirable grasp of the viola writing, inimitably Feldman whatever its change in approach, and Christian Eggen secures a dedicated response from his instrumental and orchestral forces. ... The quality of performance and production makes this the ideal way into some of Feldman's most attractive and alluring music."
(International Record Review)
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.
Marek Konstantynowicz, viola
Cikada Ensemble
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Christian Eggen, conductor
Recorded August 2001
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The Viola in My Life I - 09:11
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The Viola in My Life II - 10:18
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The Viola in My Life III - 05:07
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The Viola in My Life IV - 14:31