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Morton Feldman – Complete Works for Multiple Pianos (2026)

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July 4, 2026

This lengthy album covers multiple phases of Feldman’s musical thinking from 1950 to 1972. Meaningfully, he wrote many of these compositions to play with friends such as John Cage and David Tudor. These challenging pieces, in which Feldman wanted to wash away compositional rhetoric and allow sounds to be heard on their own terms, function as aural palate cleansers. To realize Feldman’s scores, with their indeterminate elements, the pianists must play an active role in the compositional process and coordinate very closely. These musicians do so seamlessly and intuitively, never losing the required concentration, while the recording engineers do incredible work in miking and blending up to five pianos at once. The earliest pieces, such as…

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Antti Tolvi – Morton Feldman: Intermission 6 (2025)

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February 23, 2026

Morton Feldman‘s composition “Intermission 6” dates from 1953, and is considered to be one of his most open, indeterminate piano works. Its score comprises a single page on which there are fifteen events — single notes or chords — which can be played in any order by one pianist or two. According to Feldman’s writing, “The pianist or pianists begin with any sound on the page, will hold until barely audible, then proceed to whichever other sound he/she/they may choose. Sounds may be repeated.” The music on this version of “Intermission 6” was all played by Finnish pianist Antti Tolvi and was recorded in Westers, Kiila, Finland, on 21st October 2024.
Feldman’s writing and music for “Intermission 6” are reminiscent of various other issues.

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GBSR Duo & Taylor MacLennan – Morton Feldman: Trios (2026)

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February 10, 2026

…The long-standing duo of percussionist George Barton and pianist Siwan Rhys, hereafter GBSR and augmented here by flautist Taylor MacLennan, offers Morton Feldman’s homage to his erstwhile artistic comrade Guston, along with Why Patterns? (1978) and Crippled Symmetry (1983) in a wonderfully annotated six-disc set commensurate with the label’s other Feldman and Cage boxes, for which all involved have been justly lauded. The label has made a specialty of these two composers who are, clumsily and too often, still associated with the New York School, a designation that does the individuality of their work no justice. It is, however, music for which performance traditions are still in formation, making these sets doubly important for the deep dives…

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