A double CD for one of the late monuments by Morton Feldman: Violin and String Quartet, a 140-minute work composed in 1985, two years before the American composer's death. A work of extreme maturity, in which Feldman pushes his aesthetics of duration and sonic rarefaction to their ultimate consequences, creating a suspended space-time where every sound acquires an almost physical presence.
Apartment House – the London-based ensemble specialized in experimental and minimalist repertoire – offers an interpretation of absolute concentration and rigor. The formation includes Mira Benjamin, Chihiro Ono and Amalia Young on violins, Bridget Carey on viola, and Anton Lukoszevieze on cello: musicians capable of inhabiting Feldman's temporal architectures with patience and extreme sensitivity, rendering every minimal timbral variation, every dynamic nuance, every silence as a fundamental event.
In Violin and String Quartet, Feldman constructs a soundscape of extreme delicacy, where repetitive patterns transform through imperceptible mutations, where time seems to dilate until dissolving. This is music that requires and offers meditative listening, an immersive experience that challenges the narrative conventions of Western musical form. An artistic testament from one of the most radical innovators of twentieth-century music.