Rothko Chapel

"Some works quietly become masterpieces: Morton Feldman's intense, spare and evocative Rothko Chapel (written for the octagonal building in Houston that houses his paintings) was challenging when new ... Now it seems an utterly natural, hieratic procession of contrasted friezes in which not a note is out of place ... After this half-hour immersion, anything else might be an anti-climax, but the sequence that follows of Erik Satie piano pieces (Sarah Rothenberg) and John Cage choral fragments (Houston Chamber Choir) traces a hypnotic line of innovation".

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"[Rothko Chapel is] a passionate, reverent piece with elegiac playing here from violist Kim Kashkashian - she paints bolder strokes than many dare in Feldman, which is refreshing. The Houston choir's singing is warm and percussionist Steven Schick creates a great sense of space and ritual".

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"Hvorfor har ingen tidligere fundet på at sætte den zenagtige amerikanske minimalisme af John Cage og Morten Feldmann sammen med Eric Saties stoisk rolige klavermusik? Ideen er i hvert fald ekstremt fascinerende og virkelig vellykket på denne ECM-udgivelse, hvor man totalt og badet i velklang synker i et med lyden af nøgne afmålte klangfigurer fra de tre komponister ... Bevidsthedsudvidende klangkrystaller, man kan blive høj af".

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