Feldman, M: Trio

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Heard here in an outstanding performance by the Ives Ensemble, Feldman’s Trio (1980) is deliciously confounding, full of formal ambiguity and a certain elusive playfulness. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 20th Oct 2017
Catalogue No: HATNOWART155
Label: hat
Series: hat[now]ART
Length: 76 minutes

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Feldman, M: Trio

Work length1:16:02

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Ives Ensemble

Pt. 1

Track length19:16

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Pt. 2

Track length16:01

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Pt. 3

Track length16:48

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Pt. 4

Track length23:57

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Feldman’s canvas contains sparse, isolated tones and commentary in an environment of heightened concern. (Concern negates the idea that Feldman’s music embodies an existential void.) Concern creates tension, energized by the composer’s sense of responsibility, and desire. The music sounds familiar at times, where a motif occurs and is not forgotten, but returns in another place in another guise. Or multiple motifs (each instrument’s persona! statement) are reassembled into something resembling something else, or only itself. Even Feldman’s repetition is never exact, as there are slight shifts in weight, shade, density, intensity. And when, eventually, the music ends, it just ends, for no need, or reason, with no explanation, no answers. Art Lange

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March 2018

Heard here in an outstanding performance by the Ives Ensemble, Feldman’s Trio (1980) is deliciously confounding, full of formal ambiguity and a certain elusive playfulness.

19th October 2017

Clocking in at 76 minutes, the Ives performance is relatively swift...but that only reinforces the sense of unease underpinning the whole work, with its unstable rhythms, constant dissonances, and repeatedly thwarted cadences...It demonstrates what a mysterious, unsettling piece the Trio is.

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