George Crumb - Crumb: Music for a Summer EveningGeorge Crumb (born October 24, 1929) is an American composer of modern and avant garde music. He is known as an explorer of unusual timbres and extended technique. Examples include spoken flute (one speaks while blowing into the instrument) and glass marbles poured onto an open piano. Presented here are some of Crumbs most extraordinary works. Cosmic spheres in Music for a Summer Evening (1974), a visit to the Padua Arena Chapel in a Little Suite for

Buddy Collette and William Green on reeds and pianist Gerald Wiggins) are heard from on the octet date

his first since 2017 when he contracted a muscle disease in both arms that prevented him from playing guitar

Van Dyke Parks

3 & 4 - Prospero's

which has delighted many audiences at European music festivals

critical rethinking and original instrumental research

darkest chapel-going Wales who have mined the cultural upheaval of past centuries and drawn inspiration from the incredible story of a time when Wales' traditional music and dance was suppressed by Methodist chapels

Heavy Load

blamed for the death of one of their young fans in the Czech Republic

Rage In Eden was produced by Conny Plank (Kraftwerk

is enriched by new facets - and the repertoire by two outstanding

The follow-up on TALES OF BELLE