Vicki Ray/Eclipse Quartet: Piano And String Quartet (1985)

Composed two years before his death, the ultra-impressionistic Piano and String Quartet is one of the most beguiling of Feldman’s late works. With its chords based on semitones, this nearly 80-minute, single movement work floats in a typical Feldmanesque haze, yet progresses with a forward moving determination and logic that sets it apart from some of Feldman’s more static pieces of this period. It is performed by Vicki Ray, one of the leading American interpreters of contemporary music, and the Eclipse Quartet.