FELDMAN, MORTON - Clarinet and String Quartet

Saltern returns with a gorgeous new recording of Morton Feldmans Clarinet and String Quartet (1983) performed by Anthony Burr(clarinet), Graeme Jennings (violin), Gascia Ouzounian (violin), Che-Yen Chen (viola) and Charles Curtis (cello). This performance highlights Feldmans interest in notation by treating the slight differences in intonation and rhythm literally and specifically. Recorded by Tom Erbein the living room of a friend of the musicians. Edition of 400. Housed in jackets printed at Stoughton and featuring a cover image by artist Raha Raissnia. \r\nFrom Anthony Burr and Charles Curtiss liner notes: Near the end of the final Contrapunctus in The Art Of Fugue, Bach introduces a new four-note countersubject which, in the German note names, spells B, A, C, H (in our note names, B-flat, A, C, B-natural). To those within Bachs circle, and probably to any attentive musician of his day, the notes thus sounded would have unmistakably articulated Bachs name -- an embedded signature, n