CD, Feldman, M (composer)

[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... — The Guardian, 19th November 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

There’s no recording yet of his 2017 opera The Girl of the Golden West (you can blame the industry’s economics), but every other milestone since the mid-1980s is here in performances that continue... — Sunday Times, 7th December 2022 More…

Intégrales proves an energetic opener for this survey of the city from the eminent, Paris-based Ensemble Intercontemporain, lucidly conducted by their music director, Matthias Pintscher. Likewise... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

You can lose yourself in these beautiful, tactile, immaculately gauged repetitions, but equally you can leave the room, make coffee and return without having broken the contract with the composer.... — Sunday Times, 22nd March 2015 More…

Fuelled by a trip to Tunis, the two inner movements are imbued with ‘all the strangeness of Africa’ according to Antheil, and Kopatchinskaja is in thrall to their mercurial fantasy. She’s also... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

An attractive programme of 20th-century American music, moments of choral weight and exposed fragility alike approached with great individuality. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2014 More…

Ensemble Avantgarde’s sensitive performance [of PVVC], recorded in the unembellished acoustic of a concert hall, unfolds its beauty with a rapt, f inely balanced combination of tension and calm. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Feldman's music is an acquired taste, but if you have never listened to it, this work is an excellent place to start. If you do know his music, and don't have this work, then you should. — MusicWeb International, December 2012 More…