design in sound
Chris Villars (editor)
The first of the Hyphen New Series, this is a book of thinking aloud – about music, about art, about making work, about life. Feldman was a wonderful talker, and much of the qualities of his conversation are captured in this book, both in its text and in its photographs. The book is essentially a documentary, with something of the same spirit as our Anthony Froshaug.
| £25.00 |
The Bach Players
In this recording The Bach Players look at what happens when great composers arrange each other’s works. Bach’s mastery of the art of fugue-writing inspired generations of composers to come: Mozart’s arrangements of some of Bach’s fugues are notable instances of this. The main feature of the disc is the little-known arrangement by Bach of Pergolesi’s popular ‘Stabat Mater’. Bach sets the work to the German text of Psalm 51, rewriting the viola part. The result is a striking and beautiful piece.
Various
A CD compilation of jazz pieces written as homages to Morton Feldman. The pieces are brought together here for the first time on one CD. The liner booklet includes two photos of Feldman by Irene Haupt and original notes on the pieces by the composers.
| £8.00 |
news | 2008.05.10 | music, Feldman
We are opening a new music department of Hyphen Press. Later this year the first of a series of CDs by The Bach Players will be issued on the label of Hyphen Press Music. There may be connections between this group and its approach to performance, and Hyphen Press and its approach to making books. But rather than try to spell this out in the abstract, it should be enough to say that the CDs will be enjoyable, and rather special. As a starter we are selling an already available CD from another area of music: Morton Feldman jazz tributes, published by Chris Villars, editor of Morton Feldman says. This too is a special production, and a very enjoyable one.
Robin Kinross | 2007.12.10 | architecture, music, history, modernism, lettering on buildings, Gray
In summer of this year the Royal Festival Hall, on the South Bank of London’s river, was reopened after a major, two-year refurbishment. The auditorium itself was remade and restored, and the rest of the building was significantly remade/restored too. The spirit and the materials of the original building were respected, at the same time changes needed for the place’s new uses were made. The architects leading the work were Allies & Morrison, among the most convincing and least pretentious of the UK firms practising ‘modern architecture’.
news | 2006.11.18 | music, Hyphen reviews
Feldman is among the featured composers at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, just beginning. Tomorrow afternoon (19 November), Chris Villars is speaking about his engagement with Feldman’s music. Coinciding with this, two articles by the composer Christopher Fox have been published: a general introduction to Feldman in The Guardian, and a review article about the book in the Musical Times (autumn 2006) – online only this way.
