Feldman/Crumb: piano works CD review – mystical and muscular

Steven Osborne(Hyperion)“I’m involved with all the 88 notes,” Morton Feldman once said of his piano music; “I have a big, big world there.” What’s so marvellous about the way Steven Osborne plays Feldman is how entirely alert he is to those kaleidoscopic gradations – the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it articulation in Intermission 5; the surreal percussion of the sustain pedal going down and up in Extensions 3; the vibrant colours and fastidious ratio...

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