George Crumb
Music For A Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) (LP)
LabelNonesuchGenreContemporary Composition
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The third instalment of George Crumb's Makrokosmos series, Music For A Summer Evening (1974) is scored for two amplified pianos and two percussionists - a larger and more spacious canvas than the solo piano volumes that preceded it. Where Makrokosmos I and II explored the sonic possibilities of a single prepared and amplified piano in isolation, this third volume opens the music into a richer dialogue of textures and timbres, the percussion ensemble (including bowed crotales, crystal glasses, and tam-tams) extending the piano's range into near-inaudibility at one extreme and sharp percussive attack at the other. Crumb's characteristic blend of notational precision and evocative image - movements with titles like "Myth", "The Advent", "Hymn For The Nativity Of The Star-Child" - creates a music that is simultaneously rigorous and mysteriously affecting.
Release notes
Music For A Summer Evening (1974) (Makrokosmos III) for Two Amplified Pianos and Percussion A Dolby-System recording Commissioned by the Fromm Foundation for Swarthmore College publ. C.F.Peters Corporation (BMI) Recorded January 6-8 1975, New York, N.Y.
| A1 | Nocturnal Sounds (The Awakening) | 5:17 | |
| A2 | Wanderer-Fantasy | 5:07 | |
| A3 | The Advent | 13:23 | |
| B1 | Myth | 5:12 | |
| B2 | Music Of The Starry Night | 11:12 |
- George Crumb
- Composed By
- Paula Bisacca
- Cover
- Marc J. Aubort
- Engineer
- Robert C. Ludwig
- Mastered By
- Raymond DesRoches
- Percussion
- Richard Fitz
- Percussion
- Gilbert Kalish
- Piano
- James Freeman
- Piano
- Joanna Nickrenz
- Supervised By
- Steve Borell
- Technician [Baldwin SD-10 Pianos]
