Morton Feldman: Trio / Aki Takahashi, Marc Sabat, Rohan de Saram

フェルドマン作品にはなじみの深いピアニスト、高橋アキとチェリストで元アルディッティ四重奏団のローハン・デ・サラムのふたりに、マルチ・インストゥルメンタリストのマーク・サバットがヴァイオリンで参加したレコーディング・セッション。105分。
尚、この3人は2007年9月15日、静岡音楽館AOIにて同曲を日本初演している。その年はフェルドマン没後20周年だった。
※ボーナスフィーチャーにはドイツの作曲家でフェルドマン研究家のヴァルター・ツィンマーマンによるビデオ・エッセイを収録。[コメント提供；エルモ]
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What is perhaps most striking about Morton Feldman's quiet, wandering music is how distinctly ambiguous it is. No images or emotions are conjured up from particularly constructed places in the score. His scores -- and this one specifically, his "Trio" of 1980, played gorgeously by these members of the Ives Ensemble -- are about the relationships among notes, instruments, and spaces. They are, as this piece illustrates so wonderfully, investigations of the possible, and they are written without hope or expectation for resolve or desire. The quiet (Feldman's works are meant to be played back on the stereo at a level just above that of silence), meandering spaces incorporated in the work make each phrase carry its own weight against another. When, in the opening, all three instruments play separate phrases together for merely a couple of seconds, that investigation is clearly under way. Timbre and pitch, without question, take precedence over harmony. In fact, it can be argued that Feldman was not only unconcerned with harmony, but that he was trying to do away with it and melody altogether -- and pretty much succeeded. The "Trio" is imperfect in this way, much to the satisfaction of its composer. It carries the listener inside a precisely constructed sound world where one can roam very freely, touching upon whatever appears, either as relationship or personal reflection, and then gently slide through to whatever is next until, at the end, the only reverberation -- which feels a part of the work itself -- is silence. ~ Thom Jurek|

弱音によって構成された長い長い作品を多く残したモートン・フェルドマン。演奏者には、作品を熟知し、ピアニッシモを愛で、親密な雰囲気を醸し出すことが要求されます。そんな作曲家フェルドマンと親しく交流し、既に彼の作品の素晴らしいディスクを多数発表している高橋アキのトリオでの新譜が、なんとDVDで登場です。ほとんど録音のみでしか知ることが出来ないフェルドマンの作品の演奏風景をたっぷり御覧下さい。因みにチェロはデ・サラム（元アルディッティSQ）。悪いはずがありません。
intoxicate (C)垰岡悠希