FELDMAN: String Quartet (1979)

The Group for Contemporary Music

8.559190

The world premiere of Morton Feldman's 1979 String Quartet was in May 1980 in New York City. It lasted well over one and a half hours. A month later, the same group - Benjamin Hudson's Columbia Quartet - performed it at Feldman's June in Buffalo Festival at the University at Buffalo. When he talked about it later at a lecture at Cal Arts, writes Douglas Cohen in these disc notes, its composition, he said, was like "I'm watching some bugs on a slide and I'm just watching how I feel. . . . So the string quartet has a lot to do with that kind of watching and letting it go. And the reason the piece is so long is that I got into dangerous territory. I let things go. . ."
This recording by former UB Creative Associate Hudson's group first appeared in 1994 on the Koch label, but it's appearance now in budget-priced Naxos is a godsend to venturesome ears and spirits. • Jeff Simon, The Buffalo News, February 2006

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

09-01-2006

0636943919026