MORTON FELDMAN : The Viola in My Life (Marek Konstantynowicz · Cikada Ensemble · Norwegian Radio Orchestra · Christian Eggen) (2001) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

After a long period of working with indeterminacy and graphic notation, Morton Feldman fixed every parameter of “The Viola in My Life” (written in 1970/71) – notes, timing, duration, dynamics – and still the feeling conveyed is of an exquisite tenuousness, as if the viola is a visitor to the composer’s musical universe, where sounds seem to be discovered in the quiet moment of their playing: “My intention was to think of melody and motivic fragments – somewhat in the way Robert Rauschenberg uses photographs in his painting – and superimpose this on a static sound world more characteristic of my music.”
‘Painting with sounds’ is central to Feldman’s music; he was a composer at least as close to the abstract painters as to musical contemporaries. ecm
MORTON FELDMAN (1926-1987)
1.    The Viola In My Life I    9:11
2.    The Viola In My Life II    10:18
3.    The Viola In My Life III    5:07
4.    The Viola In My Life IV    14:31
Credits :
Marek Konstantynowicz - Viola
Cikada Ensemble
Kersti Walldén - Flute
Terje Lerstad - Clarinet
Bjørn Rabben - Percussion
Kenneth Karlsson - Piano, Celesta
Odd Hannisdal - Violin
Morten Hannisdal -Violoncello
Norwegian Radio - Orchestra
Christian Eggen - Conductor