Morton Feldman (1926-1987)

Samuel Beckett, Words and Music (1987)

music for the radio piece, for seven instruments

  • General information
    • Composition date: 1987
    • Duration: 40 mn
    • Publisher: Universal Edition, nº UE 19448
    • Commission: Voices International et Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne
Detailed formation
  • soloist: unspecified narrator
  • 2 flutes, vibraphone, piano, violin, viola, cello

Premiere information


  • Performers:

    David Warrilow : Words Joe, Alvin Epstein : Croak, Rachel Rudich et Barbara Held : flûtes, Michael Pugliese : vibraphone, Bunita Marcus : piano, Laura Seaton : violon, Tina Pelikan : alto, Sarah Carter : violoncelle, direction : Nils Vigeland.