Rothko Chapel: Morton Feldman, Erik Satie, John Cage

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[Rothko Chapel is] a passionate, reverent piece with elegiac playing here from violist Kim Kashkashian – she paints bolder strokes than many dare in Feldman, which is refreshing. The Houston... — The Guardian, 19th November 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 23rd Oct 2015
Catalogue No: 4811796
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 70 minutes

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Feldman, M: Rothko Chapel

Work length26:21

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Kim Kashkashian (viola), Sarah Rothenberg (celesta), Steven Schick (percussion), Sonja Bruzauskas (mezzo-soprano), Lauren Snouffer (soprano)
Houston Chamber Choir
Robert Simpson
Recorded: 2013-02-02
Recording Venue: Asia Society, Brown Foundation Performing Arts Theater, Houston

Satie: Gnossienne No. 4

Work length3:36

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Sarah Rothenberg (piano)
Recorded: 2013-02-02
Recording Venue: Asia Society, Brown Foundation Performing Arts Theater, Houston

Cage: Four2

Work length6:28

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Houston Chamber Choir
Robert Simpson
Recorded: 2012-05-23
Recording Venue: Stude Hall in Alice Pratt Brown Hall, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston

Satie: Ogive No. 1

Work length3:04

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Sarah Rothenberg (piano)
Recorded: 2013-02-02
Recording Venue: Asia Society, Brown Foundation Performing Arts Theater, Houston

Cage: Ear For Ear (Antiphonies)

Work length4:09

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Houston Chamber Choir
Robert Simpson
Recorded: 2012-05-23
Recording Venue: Stude Hall in Alice Pratt Brown Hall, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston

Satie: Ogive No. 2

Work length3:07

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Sarah Rothenberg (piano)
Recorded: 2013-02-02
Recording Venue: Asia Society, Brown Foundation Performing Arts Theater, Houston

Satie: Gnossienne No. 1

Work length5:16

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Sarah Rothenberg (piano)
Recorded: 2013-02-02
Recording Venue: Asia Society, Brown Foundation Performing Arts Theater, Houston

Cage: Five

Work length5:07

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Houston Chamber Choir
Robert Simpson
Recorded: 2012-05-23
Recording Venue: Stude Hall in Alice Pratt Brown Hall, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston

Satie: Gnossienne No. 3

Work length3:30

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Sarah Rothenberg (piano)
Recorded: 2013-02-02
Recording Venue: Asia Society, Brown Foundation Performing Arts Theater, Houston

Cage: In a Landscape

Work length9:42

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Sarah Rothenberg (piano)
Recorded: 2012-05-23
Recording Venue: Stude Hall in Alice Pratt Brown Hall, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston

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The album ‘Rothko Chapel’ addresses a network of musical relationships and inspirations, taking as its main focus Morton Feldman’s work named for the Houston, Texas multi-faith chapel built to house Mark Rothko’s site-specific paintings.

Feldman considered that his ‘Rothko Chapel’ lay “between categories, between time and space, between painting and music”, and described the score as his “canvas”. Amongst his most important influences were abstract painters, his friend Mark Rothko prominent amongst them. (Rothko, for his part, yearned to “raise painting to the level of music and poetry”.) Feldman was also liberated by the freewheeling example of John Cage’s work. “The main influence from Cage was a green light,'' Feldman said. ''It was permission, the freedom to do what I wanted.'' Cage, the most relentless of 20th century experimentalists, didn’t acknowledge what he called an “ABC model of ‘influence’” but always had a special fondness for Satie, a musical inventor of good-humoured originality with whom he could identify.

Feldman’s piece was first played in the chapel in 1972. On the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Rothko Chapel in 2011, a concert was held there bringing together works of Feldman, Cage and Satie. This programme was reprised for the present CD with recordings made at other Houston locations - Rice University (Cage, Satie) and the Brown Foundation Performing Arts Theater (Feldman).

Leading viola player Kim Kashkashian negotiates the subtle, glowing textures of Feldman’s planes of sound, joined by Sarah Rothenberg on celeste, and supported by percussion and choir. Rothenberg, on piano, plays Satie’s Gnossiennes and Cage’s Inner Landscape, and the Houston Chamber Choir sings Cage’s Four, Five and more, illuminating this rarely heard choral music.

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19th November 2015

[Rothko Chapel is] a passionate, reverent piece with elegiac playing here from violist Kim Kashkashian – she paints bolder strokes than many dare in Feldman, which is refreshing. The Houston choir’s singing is warm and percussionist Steven Schick creates a great sense of space and ritual.

Rothko Chapel: Morton Feldman, Erik Satie, John Cage

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