FELDMAN, MORTON - We, Like Salangan Swallows...: A Choral Gallery of Morton Feldman and Contemporaries

The intense individuality of Morton Feldmans (1926?1987) art and its painterly aspect have tended to push his rich output of works into a zone all of their own, surrounded by a moat of stillness. This recording attempts the reverse process -- to bring his choral works (the previously unrecorded Chorus and Instruments, Voices and Instruments 1, Voices and Instruments 2, and The Swallows of Salangan) into a gallery of other choir compositions of his times. Through the interaction with works of other characters and aspirations, mutual illumination might become a new Feldman experience. Two of the five other works confront Feldmans textless choral singing with words. These, however, carry their own special musical intent. Three early twelve-tone gems [Three Statements] of Will Ogdon (1921?2013) move with Walt Whitman into the wordless . . . away from books, away from art, and reluctantly away from human desire, as embodied in the central poem by Thomas Campion. Robert Carls (b. 1954) The C