George Crumb

condition (record/cover): NM / NM

With original innersleeve.

One of the defining recordings in Nonesuch's celebrated catalogue of American contemporary music, and one of the works that established George Crumb's reputation internationally. Ancient Voices Of Children (1970), a song cycle for mezzo-soprano and boy soprano with chamber ensemble, sets fragments of Federico García Lorca's poetry through a sequence of techniques - vocal multiphonics, whispering, the singer singing into an open piano to create sympathetic resonances, quotations from Bach and Mahler distorted and displaced - that amount to a comprehensive reimagining of what a song cycle can be. The sound world Crumb created here - haunted, fragile, spatially rich, ancient and modern simultaneously - was unlike anything else in American music at the time. The Nonesuch LP made it widely available and widely heard; it remains among the most beautiful American chamber recordings of its decade.