music we'd like to hear in november
morton feldman piano boxset launch
2019
a special edition in collaboration with Another Timbre to celebrate the launch of Philip Thomas's Morton Feldman Piano cd boxset
Philip Thomas:
'Playing Feldman's music inevitably changes aspects of one's technique. The orientation is towards the vertical aspects of piano playing - the attack - rather than the horizontal - the line. Yet Feldman made much of his desire for instrumental sound devoid of attack, which is hard for the piano, whose action is fundamentally percussive. Yet knowing this affects how one treats the instrument: pressing the keys serves to release the sound, setting strings in motion.'
'Playing Feldman's music inevitably changes aspects of one's technique. The orientation is towards the vertical aspects of piano playing - the attack - rather than the horizontal - the line. Yet Feldman made much of his desire for instrumental sound devoid of attack, which is hard for the piano, whose action is fundamentally percussive. Yet knowing this affects how one treats the instrument: pressing the keys serves to release the sound, setting strings in motion.'
artwork by David Ainley
2019 november
audience comments:
'Sublime recital of Morton Feldman's piano music from @philip_thomas_1 last night, much of it new to me. Time for a deep dive.'
'Sublime recital of Morton Feldman's piano music from @philip_thomas_1 last night, much of it new to me. Time for a deep dive.'
'...the series has become a central hub of a community that centers in London
but overlaps with other near and distant localities, both in programming and in
the visitors drawn to it.'
Jennie Gottschalk
Experimental Music Since 1970
Jennie Gottschalk
Experimental Music Since 1970
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music we'd like to hear
music we'd like to hear
Friday 1 November
Morton Feldman
Last Pieces (1959)
Piano (1977)
Extensions 3 (1952)
Palais de Mari (1986)
Philip Thomas, piano
doors 19:00, music 19:30
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