MORTON FELDMAN
Pieces for more than two hands
Unclassical Sub Rosa SR018-41
Four Pianos (1957)
Intermission VI for two pianos (1953)
Piano Four Hands (1958)
Two Pieces for two pianos (1954)
Two Pianos (1957)
Five Pianos (1972)
performed by le Bureau des Pianistes
Laurence Cornez - Kaat De Windt - Jean-Luc Fafchamps - Stephane Ginsburgh - Jean-Luc Plouvier
Recorded by Anne Fontigny and mixed by Daniel Leon at Katy Recording Studio, Ohain, Summer 1991
Listen to Intermission VI (2:30)
Louer à la Médiathèque
Ars Musica, March 16, 1991, 11:00 pm: in almost total darkness, le Bureau des Pianistes begins the complete works for several pianists of Morton Feldman (1926-1987). We are off for nearly three hours of music, the most lavish work for combined keyboards since Milhaud: a dozen pieces for every formation from three hands to five pianos. In an atmosphere of semi-darkness and restraint - how many ploys we need to rediscover the ways of true contemplation! - that night was for us, the pianists of le Bureau, a privileged moment of total liberation from classical constraint: no virtuosity here, no pianistic effects; sparse, almost non-existant dynamics, here and there, a few effect of synchronization. The Feldmanian universe works as a pacifier, and at last oblivious of time's flight, all our sensibilities bend to listen to a soaring within us - a precarious state, close to sleep, demanding an absolute attention, an infinite restraint at the limit of objectivity.
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