Crumb: Dream Sequence (Images II), Sonata for Solo Cello & Vox Balaenae [Live] [Remastered 2022]

Featuring

Alexander Balanescu
Rohan de Saram
Douglas Young
James Wood
Kathryn Lukas
Dreamtiger

George Crumb

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Performer Biography

Douglas Young founded Ensemble Dreamtiger to explore music from around the world and counteract a music industry focused on commercialism and false histories.

Performer Biography

Rohan de Saram, the cellist, has a unique musical personality shaped by the ancient rhythms of the Kandyan drum from his childhood in Ceylon and the European cello tradition.

Composer's Artistic Vision

George Crumb's musical scores are hand-drawn works of art, featuring original notation and serving as models of musical practicality.

Compositional Technique

George Crumb's experiments in re-imagining how instruments and voices could sound sometimes caused problems, such as playing directly onto the strings of a Steinway with a chisel.

Composer's Artistic Vision

George Crumb's music is characterized by its rejection of the romantic Austro-Germanic tradition, drawing influences from Italy, France, Bartók's Hungary, Spain, Latin America, and later, classical traditions of Japan, China, India, Indonesia, and aboriginal Australia.

Recording & Production

These recordings, featuring the first European performance of George Crumb's "Dream Sequence" (1976), were discovered in the KRO-NCRV archives in Hilversum.

Composer Biography

George Crumb, the composer, was known for his calm and relaxed demeanor, even during fraught situations like a cello mysteriously disappearing before a rehearsal.