Morton Feldman – The Swallows of Salangan (European Première)

Fascinating. The early, aleatory works may not be what Feldman is chiefly remembered for nowadays, but they were clearly highly influential at the time. Leif Segerstam, for one, has carved an entire compositional career out of variations on the approach adopted here…although a cynic might add that the latter’s motivation has been at least in part the desire to be able to say he’s written more symphonies than anyone else…