‘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, entering ‘an alternate reality’.
BBC Music Magazine‘What Hamelin has in his favour is an unwavering focus on the dense wave of Feldman’s rhythmic grid, and a studio recording as softly tangible as fine silk’ (Pianist)
‘Hamelin’s technical mastery and control of gradations of tone and volume are put to the test here and he proves masterful … his performance is both absorbed and absorbing, he takes central, thou ...