With a running time of just over two hours, Morton Feldman's 1985 composition "Violin and String Quartet" is one of his longer ones, even though it falls far short of such pieces as 1984's "For Philip Guston" at four hours or 1983's "String Quartet (II)" at over six hours without a break. Their durations have made it difficult to neatly fit such compositions onto CDs; the Ives Ensemble's 4-CD recording of String Quartet (II) (hat[now] ART, 2003) bore the message, "The track points are provided for convenience only and are not indications of divisions in the work." The Another Timbre (AT) approach is different, "The break between the two discs of this double CD is made at a short pause at the end of page 24... [ read more ]