Morton Feldman / Stephane Ginsburgh

For Bunita Marcus is late period Morton Feldman. Composers like Feldman, John Cage, Luc Ferrari and Karlhein Stockhausen are admittedly difficult gambits to pursue with any overarching consensus; it’s probably best from this vantage point to just find an entry point into they untested waters and leap in. Here, the always-engaging Sub Rosa imprint continues its reissues of avant-garde 20th century classical compositions with this 71-minute solo piano piece that Feldman composed in 1985. This particular recording was performed by Stephane Ginsburgh on a Bosendorfer 225 grand piano in 2006. The results offer a sublime and occasionally haunting interplay between silence and musical notations. Anyone curious about Feldman will find this piano work a more inviting initiation than his more stringent and minimal arrangements for strings. It’s worth the introduction to a gargantuan body of work whose permutations will continue to be felt deep into the next century.