Morton Feldman - String Quartet and Orchestra (Audio + Full Score)

Morton Feldman - String Quartet and Orchestra, for string quartet and orchestra (1973)

Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
Pellegrini Quartet
Conductor - Lucas Vis

"In String Quartet and Orchestra, brief lyrical fragments from the string quartet interact with static chords in the orchestra. As in Ligeti’s texture-based orchestral works, no momentary configuration overstays its welcome. A brief solo cello figure, a repeated descending semitone, is quickly replaced by a sustained woodwind cluster. But in contrast to Ligeti, the replaced figure is not gone for ever: a minute later the descending semitone figure reappears in a much higher register in the violin, this time accompanied by one of the cluster’s pitches sustained on trumpet, before vanishing in the resonance of a piano chord. If in the smallness of the gestures along with the inexhaustible permutation the music recalls Webern, it is in slow motion and stretched over a vast canvas. The Ardittis’ playing is fragile and unvarnished, showiness foregone in favour of Rothkoesque spiritual mystery."
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/f...

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