condition (record/cover): EX- / EX- (minimal edges wear and small stamp on back)

Two of Morton Feldman's most significant works from the early 1970s, documented on Composers Recordings Inc. By this period Feldman had moved away from graph notation toward a more conventionally notated music that was in some ways more demanding: pitches specified, durations notated in regular meter, but the dynamic range compressed to an extreme quietness that made the music almost physically difficult to sustain. The Viola In My Life (there are four pieces with this title, written between 1970 and 1971) returns obsessively to a single instrument, the viola, as a vehicle for Feldman's exploration of the sustained, quiet, and unexpectedly personal. False Relationships And The Extended Ending spreads the same aesthetic across a larger chamber ensemble. Works that reward the particular kind of listening Feldman demands: the suspension of expectation, the willingness to inhabit duration rather than anticipate its end.