"The latest product from Alan Feinberg's genius is quite different from the eccentric Argo anthologies I have increasingly admired. This time he is adding to the rapidly mounting representation of the prolific Charles Wuorinen on CD - and not for the first time either...The Wuorinen works, all from the 1980's...are scintillating. The often cataclysmic Sonata No. 3 was written for Feinberg but the Bagatelle, if you can imagine anything by Wuorinen being a mere bagatelle, at least starts in poetic mode, quietly. So does the Capriccio, which starts with a Brahmsian expressiveness, albeit via Schoenberg: by the end the piano sounds under attack...Feinberg's Palais [Morton Feldman] has every detail of the score in place and he brings his unique qualities to the mesmerizingly rapt meditation, where events take the form of the occasional dry chord in a liquid landscape." PD

Gramophone, September 1996

 

Alan Feinberg, piano
 

Third Piano Sonata (1986) 21:45
Bagatelle (1988) 8:50
Capriccio (1981) 12:27

CD also contains Morton Feldman’s Palais de Mari (1986) 21:44

Koch International Classics CD 3-7308-2H1

Recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City, December 1994.
Produced and Engineered by Judith Sherman
Executive Producer: Howard Stokar


Liner notes by Peter Paul Nash
Cover, charicature of Alan Feinberg by Arnold Roth

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