Carolin Widmann, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra & Emilio Pomarico - Morton Feldman: Violin and Orchestra

German violinist Carolin Widmann's widely acclaimed ECM recordings have traversed a broad arc of music - from Schubert and Schumann to T��r and Xenakis. Here she turns her attention to one of the pivotal works of New York composer Morton Feldman (1926-1987). Violin and Orchestra, composed in 1979, marked a new direction, with an almost painterly attention to detail in slowly unfolding music.

It is hard to say what kind of piece Feldman's Violin and Or�chestra really is; it is certainly not a concerto for violin and orchestra, even though the solo violin part is at least as demanding as those by virtuosi such as Pietro Locatelli and Niccol� Paganini or composers such as Brahms, Sch�nberg, Stravinsky and Berg. Feldman's piece has no brilliant passages, no trace of acrobatics. In fact, the soloist should sit in the orchestra, not stand in front of it�The violin rarely ever emerges in a soloistic way and is never accompanied at all; its music seems much more to be subdued by the orchestra, before it re-emerges, in highest register, like music from a distant star, like an echo sounding from unlimited spaces - or else engendering echoes from the orchestra itself.

In this landmark Feldman recording, Carolin Widmann moves inside the glowing colour-field of sound with great delicacy and feeling, exploring the subtle orchestral texture, crafted together with conductor Emilio Pom�rico and the players of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Personnel: Carolin Widmann (violin), Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Emilio Pom�rico (conductor)