Morton Feldman - Trio [hatART]

What is perhaps most striking about Morton Feldman's quiet, wandering music is how distinctly ambiguous it is. No images or emotions are conjured up from particularly constructed places in the score. His scores -- and this one specifically, his "Trio" of 1980, played gorgeously by these members of The Ives Ensemble -- are about the relationships among notes, instruments, and spaces. They are, as this piece illustrates so wonderfully, investigations of the possible, and they are written without hope or expectation for resolve or desire. Read More