Morton Feldman Piano

Thomas has been studying and playing Feldman for a quarter of a century...What we have here, then, is an authoritative presentation of some of the most important keyboard music of the second... — The Guardian, 10th October 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 4th Oct 2019
Catalogue No: at144
Label: Another Timbre

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2019

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Feldman, M: Last Pieces (1959)

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Piano

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Palais de Mari

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Untitled Piano Piece (194?)

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Illusions

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Three Dances

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Nature Pieces

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Variations

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Two Intermissions

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Intermission 3

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Intermission 4

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Intersection II

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Three Pieces for Piano

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Piano Piece (1955)

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Piano Piece (1956 A)

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Piano Piece (1956 B)

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Intermission 6a

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Intermission V

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Intermission 6

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Extensions 3

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Music for the film ‘Sculpture by Lipton’

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Piano Piece (1952)

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Intersection III

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Piano Piece (1964)

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Vertical Thoughts 4

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Figure of Memory (1954)

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Piano Piece (1963)

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Intermission 6b

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: Triadic Memories

Philip Thomas (piano)

Feldman, M: For Bunita Marcus

Philip Thomas (piano)

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The Morton Feldman Piano box set is the most extensive survey of Feldman’ s piano music to date. Released exactly 20 years after John Tilbury’ s long unavailable 4-CD set, the new box includes several pieces which weren’ t included there, and has three works which have never been released on disc before.

Philip Thomas has been playing Feldman’ s music for 25 years and is one of the foremost interpreters of his work with an extraordinary gentle touch. He and John Tilbury combined forces to produce the highly acclaimed Two Pianos double CD, which featured Feldman’ s music for multiple pianos. The Feldman Piano box set is the culmination of decades of study, and is accompanied by a 52-page booklet in which Philip Thomas writes about Feldman’ s music from a pianist’ s point of view:

“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.”

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10th October 2019

Thomas has been studying and playing Feldman for a quarter of a century...What we have here, then, is an authoritative presentation of some of the most important keyboard music of the second half of the 20th century...Thomas’s mastery and understanding of this music [is] alive to every inflection and subtle change of colour, and to every challenge it presents.

Morton Feldman Piano

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