Favorite Morton Feldman "_____ and Orchestra"

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Some pieces more than others. Crippled Symmetry and Piano and String Quartet are my favorites.

Sarge

P&SQ is my favorite, I think. I like CS very much as well.

I've only hesitated - not quite the right word - because I've been distracted by another recording, on this Concertgebouw box from 1990-2000 - a live one conducted by Peter Eötvös (Oct. 30, 1998). At some point, will get the others cited and do an A/B/C comparison.

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--Bruce

This looks interesting. Too bad it isn't on Spotify...

I see there is another recording of the Messiaen Trois Petites Liturgies de la Presence Divine on here as well. If there were a few more, I'd consider possibly running a blind comparison for it, but then I'd probably be too lazy. And I doubt that there would be much interest.

The Feldman thread is probably not the place to go off on a Messiaen-tangent, considering that he didn't think too highly of Messiaen (from Give My Regards to Eighth Street):

Messiaen is not an orchestrator. That's not orchestration you hear, I don't know what the hell it is. It's Disney, it's Disneyland. It's Technicolor, you know from the forties when it first came out, like a Doris Day movie, those crazy colors, you know how crazy people look in the old Technicolor, that's Messiaen, just something is wrong someplace.

Although I respectfully disagree, I admit that the quote made me laugh.

[Ken B]

P&SQ is my favorite, I think. I like CS very much as well.
This looks interesting. Too bad it isn't on Spotify...

I see there is another recording of the Messiaen Trois Petites Liturgies de la Presence Divine on here as well. If there were a few more, I'd consider possibly running a blind comparison for it, but then I'd probably be too lazy. And I doubt that there would be much interest.

The Feldman thread is probably not the place to go off on a Messiaen-tangent, considering that he didn't think too highly of Messiaen (from Give My Regards to Eighth Street):

Messiaen is not an orchestrator. That's not orchestration you hear, I don't know what the hell it is. It's Disney, it's Disneyland. It's Technicolor, you know from the forties when it first came out, like a Doris Day movie, those crazy colors, you know how crazy people look in the old Technicolor, that's Messiaen, just something is wrong someplace.

Although I respectfully disagree, I admit that the quote made me laugh.

I like this Mr Feldman. What did he say about that Mr Boulez?
"Boulez, who is everything I don't want art to be... Boulez, who once said in an essay that he is not interested in how a piece sounds, only how it is made."