Morton Feldman: For Bunita Marcus

Marc-André Hamelin (piano)

‘I have no problem with notes … none at all’, was Feldman’s cryptic comment on For Bunita Marcus. Throughout the seventy-two-minute duration of this extraordinary work, notes coalesce into wisps of melody which drift softly in and out of an immense silence. You are indeed, as Marc-André Hamelin writes, ‘about to enter a world unlike any other’.

"Hamelin, known for his extraordinary virtuosity, here presents not so much the exact opposite of this but a world that complements it: slow, minimalist, yet strangely evocative and expressive...Simple though the music sounds, Hamelin's touch of the keyboard plays its role, each note like a separate pebble gently dropped into a pool and sending out ripples."
BBC Music Magazine - August 2017 *****

"Hamelins spel is een fenomenale prestatie"
de Volkskrant *****

"What Hamelin has in his favour is an unwavering focus on the dense weave of Feldman’s rhythmic grid, and a studio recording as softly tangible as fine silk. Do not, as they say, adjust your set. Rather, sit back and let the music adjust your head."
Pianist Magazine - August 2017 ****