19m40s_28

28th of DECEMBER 2025 7:40pm GMT+1

Morton Feldman: King of Intermissions

DESCRIPTION

Known for redefining how and where contemporary music can be heard, 19’40” turns its ear to Morton Feldman—not with a survey, but with a close-up. This album gathers the piano Intermissions (I & II, 4–6), The King of Denmark, Bass Clarinet and Percussion, and A Very Short Trumpet Piece: works where silence has weight, time stretches, and sound arrives without haste or explanation.

It is a portrait of Feldman’s listening (patient, lucid, and quietly radical) recorded between Milan and Lissolo, with a live take from Puntuale at BIKO Club, Milan. This release explores the spaces between events: islands of resonance, near-inaudible thresholds, and the art of waiting.

CREDITS

The King of Denmark (1965)

Sebastiano De Gennaro, percussion
Recorded at Black Bear Studio (Lissolo), October 31, 2025

Two Intermissions (1950)

Intermission 4 (1952)

Intermission 5 (1952)

Intermission 6 (1953)

Enrico Gabrielli, piano
Recorded in Milan, October 2025

A Very Short Trumpet Piece (1986)

Marcello Corti, B-flat trumpet
Recorded at Black Bear Studio (Lissolo), October 20, 2025

Bass Clarinet and Percussion (1981)

Enrico Gabrielli, bass clarinet
Elio Marchesini, percussion
Sebastiano De Gennaro, percussion
Live recording by Carlo Zollo at Puntuale 2025, BIKO Club (Milan), March 19, 2025

Mastered by Roberto Rettura at Studio Spaziale (Bologna)

Cover design by Alessandro Grazian

Liner notes by Marco Moiraghi

Editorial support by Samantha Parrello / AMS

Booklet layout by Eugenio Crippa