This CD is comprised of works from Feldman's Early Period (late 40's until the late 60's) and Middle Period (late 60's/early 70's until the early 80's). In the beginning, like all young creative artists, Feldman was working through alluring influences as well as the influence of his teachers, towards the moment when he would find his personal creative voice. With the exception of the vocal solo Only, this disc documents all the earliest works that Feldman chose to publish. Journey to the End of Night (1949) shows unmistakable influences from his study with Stefan Wolpe, yet it also shows a clear command of this musical language. This dramatically clear and forceful work -- with extremely high vocal writing -- is set to texts extracted by Feldman himself from the long novel of the same title by Céline. In 1957, Feldman began to use repetition of material to make a homogeneous texture, static yet with small degrees of movement. By the early 1960's, he created timbral ambiguity by having all instruments play very softly, with a minimum of attack