George Crumb

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George Henry Crumb родился в Charleston, West Virginia 24 октября 1929 года. Учился в Mason College of Music в Charleston и получил степень бакалавра в 1950 году. Затем учился на соискание ученой степени магистра в университете Illinois, Champaign-Urbana под руководством Eugene Weigel. Продолжил обучение у Boris Blacher в Hochschule fur Musik, Berlin, 1954-1955. В 1959 году получил D.M.A. в University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, после обучения у Ross Lee Finney.

В музыке George Crumb часто сопоставляются контрастные музыкальные стили, от западных традиций art-music, гимнов и folk-music, до non-Western музыки. Многие из его работ включают в себя программные, символическое, мистические и театральные элементы, которые часто находят отражение в его красивых и тщательно размеченных партитурах.

Crumb ушел в отставку с должности преподавателя в The University of Pennsylvania после более чем 30 лет службы. Призер Pulitzer премии в музыке в 1968, премии Grammy в 2001, награжденный Почетными докторатами от многочисленных университетов и являясь обладателем десятков других наград и премий, Crumb остаётся в своём доме в Pennsylvania, где он и его жена растили своих троих детей, и продолжает сочинять новую музыку.

Музыка George Crumb публикуется C.F. Peters, и продолжающаяся серия записей "Complete Crumb", под руководством самого композитора издается на Bridge Records.

Official site: http://www.georgecrumb.net/

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1970 - Ancient Voices of Children
A Cycle of Songs on Text by Federico Garcia Lorca

01. El No O Busca So Voz
02. Dances of the Ancient Earth
03. Me Ha Perdido Muchas Veces Por El Mar
04. Dance of the Sacred Life-Cycle
05. Ghost Dance
06. Se Ha Llenado De Luces Mi Coraz En De Seda

Jan DeGaetani - mezzo-soprano
Michael Dash - boy soprano
Arthur Weisberg - conductor

The Contemporary Chamber Ensemble:
George Haas - oboe/harmonica
Stephen Bell - mandolin
Susan Jolles - harp
Gilbert Kalish - electric/toy piano
Raymond DesRoches - percussion
Richard Fitz - percussion
Howard Van Hyning -percussion
Jacob Glick - musical saw


1974 - Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III)
For Two Amplified Pianos and Percussion

07. Nocturnal Sounds (The Awakening)
08. Wanderer - Fantasy
09. The Advent
10. Myth
11. Music of the Starry Night

Gilbert Kalish - piano
James Freeman - piano
Raymond DesRoches - percussion
Richard Fitz - percussion


APE, 411 kbps

http://www.mediafire.com/?h494m2p617xkb8z (180.96 MB)

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1968 - Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death
for Baritone, Electric Guitar, Electric Contrabass, Electric Piano (Electric Harpsichord), Percussion (2 players)

01. Part One
Refrain One: I. The Guitar
Refrain Two: II. Casida of the Dark Doves

02. Part Two
Refrain Three: III. Song of the Rider, 1860
Refrain Four: IV. Casida of the Boy Wounded by Water

Sanford Sylvan - baritone
David Starobin - electric guitar
Donald Palma - electric contrabass
Aleck Karis - electric piano and eletric harpsichord
Daniel Druckman and Eric Charlston - percussion


1980 - A Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979

03. 1. The Visitation
04. 2. Berceuse for the Infant Jesu
05. 3. The Shepherd's Noel
06. 4. Adoration of the Magi
07. 5. Nativity Dance
08. 6. Canticle of the Holy Night
09. 7. Carol of the Bells

Lambert Orkis - piano


1979 - Apparition
Elegiac Songs and Vocalises for Soprano and Amplified Piano

10. I. The Night in Silence Under Many a Star
11. Vocalise 1: Summer Sounds
12. II. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
13. III. Dark Mother Always Gliding with Soft Feet
14. Vocalise 2: Invocation to the Dark Angel
15. IV. Approach Strong Deliveress!
16. Vocalise 3: Death Carol ('Song Of The Nightbird')
17. V. Come Lovely and Soothing Death
18. VI. The Night in Silence Under Many a Star

Jan DeGaetani - mezzo-soprano
Gilbert Kalish - amplified piano


APE, 319 kbps

http://www.mediafire.com/?2ud6e56k5xzq862 (148.51 MB)

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1994 - Quest (24:12)
Solo Guitar, Soprano Saxophone, Harp, Contrabass, Percussion (two players)

01. Refrain 1
02. I.Dark Paths
03. II. Fugitive Sound
04. Refrain 2
05. III. Forgotten Dirges
06. IV. Fugitive Sound
07. Refrain 3
08. V. Nocturnal

David Starobin - guitar and concertina
Donald Sinta - soprano saxophone
Karen Lindquist - harp
Donald Palma - contrabass
Daniel Druckman, Erik Charlston - percussion
William Pulvis - conductor


1986 - Federico's Little Songs for Children (14:03)
(Soprano, Flute (and Picollo, Alto Flute, Bass Flute) and Harp

09. 1. La Senorita del Abanico
10. 2. La Tarde
11. 3. Cancion Cantada
12. 4. Caracola
13. 5. El Lagarto esta Llorando
14. 6. Cancioncilla Sevillana
15. 7. Cancion Tonta

Susan Narucki - soprano
Susan Palma Nidel - flutes
Stecey Shames - harp


1963 - Night Music I (revised 1976) (20:24)
(Soprano, Piano (and Celesta), and Percussion (two players)

16. 1. Notturno I: Giocoso, estatico
17. 2. Notturno II: "Piccola Serenata"
18. 3. Notturno III: "La Luna Asoma"
19. 4. Notturno IV: Vivace, molto ritmico
20. 5. Notturno V: "Gacela de la Terrible Presencia"
21. 6. Notturno VI: "Barcarola"
22. 7. Notturno VII: Giocoso, estatico

Susan Narucki - soprano
Christopher Oldfather - piano and celesta
Daniel Druckman - percussion
James Baker - percussion


APE, 458 kbps

http://www.mediafire.com/?b433raaserpv8zj (195.84 MB)

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1971 - Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) (20:51)
for Electric Fluite, Electric Cello and Amplified Piano


01. Vocalise (... for the beginning of time)

Variations on Sea-Time:
02. Sea Theme
03. Archeozoic (Var. I)
04. Proterzoic (Var. II)
05. Paleozoic (Var. III)
06. Mesozonic (Var. IV)
07. Cenozoic (Var. V)

08. Sea Nocturne (... for the end of time)


Hans-Peter Frehner - flute
Hansruedi Bissegger - clarinet
Victor Muller - piano
Urs Bumbacher - violin
Samuel Brunner - cello
Jurg Henneberger - conductor, piano


FLAC

http://www.mediafire.com/?zidz7mqptz97tyi (76.75 MB)