It may just be coincidence or luck, but Morton Feldman was born on Monday January 12th1926, and this album Trios was released just over a century later, on Sunday January 18th, 2026. By the time of his death, September 3rd,1987, Feldman had produced about 185 compositions of various types. In the years since 1987, there has been a noticeable increase in the number of Feldman compositions being released, played by a variety of musicians, with Hat records leading the field for a while and Another Timbre gradually taking over.

Since 2014 when Another Timbre released Two Pianos and other pieces, 1953-1969, with John Tilbury and Philip Thomas playing piano together, the label has thrived on Feldman releases, issuing six more. One of those was a five-CD box set on which Thomas played a selection of short Feldman piano pieces as well as two popular longer pieces, "Triadic Memories" (1981) and "For Bunita Marcus" (1985), the former being so long at 74'13" that it was spread over two discs, while the latter just makes it onto one disc.

After the previous Another Timbre Feldman releases, now comes Trios which is different again. Comprising six discs, each of about seventy minutes, Trios only comprises three pieces, "Why Patterns?" (1978) lasting 29' 55, "Crippled Symmetry" (1983) lasting 90' 47", and "For Philip Guston" (1984) lasting 281' 30". To fit everything in, "Crippled Symmetry" fits in behind "Why Patterns" then onto disc 2 to finish. All of discs 3 to 6 are occupied by "For Philip Guston"... altogether very different.

Just as surprising as the way the compositions fit onto the six discs is the trio of musicians who play Trios. The GBSR Duo consists of Siwan Rhys who plays piano and, as here, celeste too, while she is joined in the duo by George Barton who plays vibraphone, glockenspiel, marimba and tubular bells. For Trios, they are joined by Taylor MacLennan who plays bass flute, flute, alto flute and piccolo. Both in concert and on record all three players display their love of Feldman's music and their ability to play it flawlessly. For Feldman lovers and admirers, Trios is as essential as other Another Timbre releases.