Composer: Morton Feldman
Performer: Pellegrini Quartet
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: hat
Catalogue: HATNOWART157
Release: 2010
Size: 183 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Two Pieces for Clarinet and String Quartet (1961) – No 1
02. Two Pieces for Clarinet and String Quartet (1961) – No 2
03. Clarinet & String Quartet (1983)
04. Two Pieces for Clarinet and String Quartet (1961) – No 1 [Version 2]
05. Two Pieces for Clarinet and String Quartet (1961) – No 2 [Version 2]
“Perhaps surprisingly, I find that Clarinet And String Quartet and the epicritical, aleatoric (thus the two different versions released here) Two Pieces For Clarinet And String Quartet, composed twenty-three years earlier, have much in common. Both are intimate, introspective, transparent, and concise, and despite the earlier work’s delicacy and brevity, their differences are of surface, not content and certainly not feeling. Though their means are unalike, they illuminate key issues in Feldman’s music: commitment, integrity, and wonder, turning anxiety into discovery, and emotion into art.”