SALZBURG, Austria
Kollegienkirche
20 July 1997 

Morton FELDMAN (1926-1987) :

Neither (Opera in one act) for soprano and orchestra (1977) (54:42)

SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Kwamé Ryan
Südfunk-Chor Stuttgart, Michael Alber
Eirian Davies (soprano) 
Bernhard Landauer (countertenor)
Hans-Josef Knaust (organ)
André Richard (Sound director)
Michelangelo Pistoletto (optical design)

"Neither is a one act 'opera', for soprano and chamber orchestra, using a 'libretto' from Samuel Beckett. The words are indecipherable - they hang in the air and never resolve, complementing the music which shifts, flows and ebbs. According to Feldman, every line of Neither "is really the same thought said in another way. And yet the continuity acts as if something else is happening." It's interesting to compare this to Boulez's idea of the text which is constantly changing and which never ends the same way.

to and fro in shadow from inner to outer shadow from impenetrable self to impenetrable unself by way of neither as between two lit refuges whose doors once neared gently close, once away turned from gently part again beckoned back and forth and turned away heedless of the way, intent on the one gleam or the other unheard footfalls only sound till at last halt for good, absent for good from self and other then no sound then gently light unfading on that unheeded neither unspeakable home"

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Original Info

SWR2 Mittwoch, 8.10.2008
Morton Feldman - "neither", Oper für Sopran und Orchester in einem Akt
Libretto by Samuel Beckett

to and fro in shadow from inner to outer shadow from impenetrable self to impenetrable unself by way of neither as between two lit refuges whose doors once neared gently close, once away turned from gently part again beckoned back and forth and turned away heedless of the way, intent on the one gleam or the other unheard footfalls only sound till at last halt for good, absent for good from self and other then no sound then gently light unfading on that unheeded neither unspeakable home 

Eirian Davies (sopran)
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Leitung: Kwamé Ryan

Salzburg Festival, 1997

01 Radio intro (0.23)
02 "neither" (54.42)
03 Radio outro (1.31)

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