Crumb: Madrigals / Music For A Summer Evening (Makrokosmos Iii)

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Anne-Marie Mühle
Ulf Bergström
Åsa Lännerholm
Seppo Asikainen
Ingrid Lindgren
Barbro Dahlman

Rainer Kuisma
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George Crumb

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Composition History

George Crumb's "Makrokosmos III" was completed in February 1974 and was commissioned by the Fromm Foundation.

Compositional Technique

"Makrokosmos III" expands Crumb's scoring from a single piano to two pianos and percussion, exploiting tremendous developments in percussion techniques since Bartók's 1937 Sonata for similar forces.

Composer Biography

George Crumb, born in Charleston, West Virginia in 1929, is one of the most famous American composers of our time.

Composer Biography

George Crumb received his doctor's degree in music in 1959 after studying with Boris Blacher in Berlin.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Crumb chose the fragmented texts for his Madrigals because each fragment deals with archetypes of existence like life, death, love, and the four elements.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Crumb also chose the texts for his Madrigals for a musical reason: the inherent rhythm and structure of the text sounds.

Composer Biography

George Crumb has been awarded several major prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1968 and the Koussevitzky International Recording Award.