Morton Feldman - Flute & Orchestra

Flute and Orchestra, for flute & orchestra (1978) Roswitha Staege, flute Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken Hans Zender Morton Feldman was commissioned to write Flute and Orchestra for the Saarland Radio in 1977-78. His works in the 1970s are at the point of consolidation the composer’s mature style. It is during this decade that listeners can start hearing great works of art among his output. Like Rothko, Feldman came to a specific formal outlook and stuck with it for the remainder of his career. Among the mature pieces of both artists, each individual work presents a unique way of expressing the same, specific stance. With the end of World War II came an explosion of avant-garde art that was specifically indigenous of the United States, and Rothko was one of the brilliant émigrés to whom they looked for inspiration. Feldman was inspired by him and Mondrian, as well as older, North American artists such as Guston and Klein, translating their visual aesthetic