Reviews of Treatise by Cornelius Cardew [12k1104]

It is still unpredictable and thought-provoking, especially when it reaches its dark, disorienting conclusion on the last “Treatise 76”, but, clearly, vital and valid today as when it was first conceived.

Adventurous

When the electronics take on more industrial trappings, the saxophone’s contributions are more emphatic and languid. These richer, sometimes more charged aspects are reinforced in the versions given at the Fridman gallery, with a more marked granularity of the electronics