Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel; Why Patterns?
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Composer: Morton FeldmanPerformer: California EAR Unit
Performer: William Winant
Performer: Deborah Dietrich
Performer: David Abel
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1992-09-24
Music Label: New Albion Records
Soundtracks:
- Rohtko Chapel 1
- Rothko Chapel 2
- Rothko Chapel 3
- Rothko Chapel 4
- Rothko Chapel 5
- Why Patterns?
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Free Music Review: Pioneering Minimalism
Hit: 4 Stars
Listening to Feldman's music today, it can sound dated and derivative- if only because so many have followed him down that road since. We've heard a lot of this sort of minimalist tone poem from numerous hacks and sci-fi film composers. (I'm sure John Williams keeps a stack of Feldman CDs handy when he writes incidental music for the Star Wars films.) But Feldman can still sound fresh; unlike the hacks, he is fully capable of composing melodies that linger on in the mind long after the piece ends. He's rather stingy with them, but that only makes them even more welcome when- as in the final movement of "Rothko Chapel"- they finally appear.
This, along with "The Viola in My Life", represents the most accessible part of Feldman's work, and probably (I would argue) the part most likely to still be played long after a lot of the boring and overly pretentious work of the 20th century has been condemned to the dustbin. I doubt Feldman will ever rival the great melodic works of the 18th and 19th Century masters- or modernists like Lygeti- for lasting appeal, but I think that he will always have a place in the canon.
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