The title of this release by the freelance New York orchestra the Knights conveys little about its contents, and the buyer who turns to the program may be more than a little mystified to see Satie, Schubert, Philip Glass, and Morton Feldman cheek by jowl. The mystery is intended to be resolved by the program notes, which quote Feldman's statement: "That kind of hovering, as if you're in a register you've never heard. That's one of the magics of Schubert." Is this highly subjective reaction enough to link two major, ...
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The title of this release by the freelance New York orchestra the Knights conveys little about its contents, and the buyer who turns to the program may be more than a little mystified to see Satie, Schubert, Philip Glass, and Morton Feldman cheek by jowl. The mystery is intended to be resolved by the program notes, which quote Feldman's statement: "That kind of hovering, as if you're in a register you've never heard. That's one of the magics of Schubert." Is this highly subjective reaction enough to link two major, multimovement Schubert works, the Symphony No. 3 in D major, D. 200, and the Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759 ("Unfinished"), to works from the minimalist repertory and to Satie, who doubtless ranks as a predecessor? The mileage certainly will vary. The Schubert symphonies hardly "hover"; they're filled with contrasts, and furthermore with contrasts that were unprecedented for the time in which they were composed. Perhaps Feldman had in mind some of the almost harmonically static music...
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