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Morton Feldman
The Viola In My Life
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (4) - Disc #1
1. The Viola in My Life I
2. The Viola in My Life II
3. The Viola in My Life III
4. The Viola in My Life IV

CD Details

All Artists: Morton Feldman
Title: The Viola In My Life
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: ECM
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 5/20/2008
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Concertos, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Instruments, Strings
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 028947657774

Synopsis

Album Description

The Viola in my Life is one of innovative American composer Morton Feldman's (1926-1987) most important works, and this is the first ECM album devoted entirely to his work. Morton Feldman developed into one of the most important and influential musical thinkers in American composition. Performed by Norway's versatile chamber group, the Cikada Ensemble and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra under the direction of Christian Eggen. His is a radical music but also a music unafraid of beauty. The Cikada, associated with ECM since 1995 have worked in a wide range of contexts and built a substantial following across the genres.

CD Reviews

A proper ECM production

J. Rozler | 05/26/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Although I hadn't heard many of the several CD versions of "The Viola In My Life," I felt choosing the ECM release to be a no-brainer. I was not disappointed. The sound is gorgeous and the performance estimable. Like only a small handful of Feldman's middle-period works, TVIML has a sense of drama, even portentousness, which is well borne in this performance.

Having previously owned only the original LP on the CRI label, the fourth movement for Viola and Orchestra is entirely new to me, and an excellent addition to the work as I've known it.

While the entire CD clocks in at only about forty minutes, I feel it was a good programming choice to present The Viola In My Life as the only work on this release. "Filling out" the disc with other selections would only serve to weaken the impact of this important work, which deserves to stand on its own."