Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

The Smith Quartet
John Tilbury

Music for Piano and Strings by Morton Feldman, Volume 1

(Matchless Recordings, MRDVD-01) (UK) (DVD)


  1. For John Cage, 1982 (1:29:01)
  2. Piano and String Quartet, 1985 (1:29:30)

*Images are used only for the DVD menu and the first 25 seconds of each track. The screen is black for the remainder of the pieces.


DVD: PAL, Region free; total time, 179 minutes

The Smith Quartet with John Tilbury
Ian Humphries (2): violin
Darragh Morgan: violin
Nic Pendlebury (2): viola
Deirdre Cooper (2): cello
John Tilbury: piano

Recorded live by Sebastian Lexer at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, 2006
Mixed and edited by Sebastian Lexer
Cover image from a painting by Noel Forster (from the collection of John Tilbury)
Photo by Brian Slater
Design by Myah Chun
Includes an 8-page booklet with notes by Howard Skempton, Darragh Morgan, and David Ryan

Released in February 2010