Morton Feldman

Featuring: Artur Schnabel, Paul Zukofsky, Ursula Oppens

condition (record/cover): NM / VG+ (light ring wear on front)

An unusual pairing that the CP² Recordings label made deliberate: Morton Feldman's Spring Of Chosroes (1977) for violin and piano alongside Artur Schnabel's Sonata For Violin And Piano. Schnabel - the great Beethoven interpreter whose reputation as a performer has entirely overshadowed his work as a composer - wrote music of considerable atonal complexity that received almost no serious attention during his lifetime or since. The juxtaposition with Feldman is conceptually astute: two composers working in extended tonal and post-tonal idioms, one celebrated for entirely different reasons, the other operating at the edges of what the record-buying public was willing to engage with. Spring Of Chosroes is among the shorter and more compressed works of Feldman's late period, the title referring to a Persian royal court.