Morton Feldman - Piano review | Andrew Clements's classical album of the week

The Guardian 80

Philip Thomas
(Another Timbre, five CDs)
Thomas’s authoritative playing shows why Feldman’s keyboard music is some of the most important of the last century

Morton Feldman wrote for the piano for most of his composing career, and the 46 pieces included in Philip Thomas’s collection – the most extensive survey of this music to date, including several works recorded for the first time – provide a thread through its changing emphases and stylistic shifts. The earliest here is an untitled piece from 1942, just one minute long and composed when Feldman was 16; the latest is Palais de Mari from 1986, the year before his death.