Morton FELDMAN
“Trio”

“Trio” (1980). “Aki Takahashi (piano), Rohan de Saram (cello), Marc Sabat, violin. The expansive length of Feldman’s Trio (105 min. 22 sec) requires a new approach to listening, which takes scale, the physical experience of sound, and novel uses of musical memory into consideration. With his delicate manipulation of musical materials, Feldman blurs the listeners’ sense of time as their musical memory struggles to distinguish between past and present sounds – listeners are free to lose themselves in the beauty of each musical moment. Aki Takahashi and Rohan de Saram (formerly of the Arditti Quartet) both worked closely with Feldman. Marc Sabat is among today’s great Feldman interpreters, having recorded Feldman’s complete music for violin & piano on Mode. Available also as a single DVD with full video and extras. This is the only readily available performance of the Trio available in the U.S.A. Original recording in superb 96khz, 24-bit sonics. For the stereo mix, the violin and piano are clearly separated left and right to accentuate their interplay. Feldman’s use of extended string techniques can blur the timbral separation between cello and violin, creating unified sonic events exploring the qualities and possibilities of the combination of instruments – for example, utilizing the resonance of the piano and the sustaining qualities and dynamic control of the strings. These subtle nuances are brought out by the detail of the recording.”