George Crumb (1929-2022)
Music for a Summer Evening (1974)
Makrokosmos III, for two amplified pianos and two percussionists
electronic work
- General information
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Composition date:
1974
- Duration: 40 mn
- Publisher: Peters, nº P66590
- Cycle: Makrokosmos
- Commission: The Fromm Music Foundation
- Dedication: au Swarthmore College
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Composition date:
1974
- Type
- Chamber music [Percussion and keyboard quartet]
Premiere information
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Date:
30 March 1974
Location:États-Unis, Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College
Performers:Gilbert Kalish et James Freeman : piano, Raymond DesRoches et Richard Fitz : percussion.
Création du cycle complet Makrokosmos le 12 juin 1980 à Buffalo, New York, par Ivar Mikhashoff, Aki Takahashi, Stephen et Frieda Manes : pianos, Jan Williams et Lynn Harbold : percussion.
Information on the electronics
Electronic device: amplification
Observations
Enregistrements : Susan Grace et Alice Rybak : pianos, David Colson et John Kinzie : percussion, 1 cd Bridge Records 9105, 2001 ; Fuat Kent et Peter Degenhardt : pianos, Carmen Erb et Hans-Peter Achberger : percussion, 1 cd col legno WWE 20023, 1999 ; piano & percussion : Susan Wenckus et Markus Stange : pianos, Markus Hauke et Michael Kiedaisch : percussion, 1 cd audite 97.455, 1997 ; Bojan Gorisek et Tatiana Ognjanovic : pianos, Lojze Gradisek et Boris Surbak : percussion, 1 cd Audiophile Classics 103301, 1997.
Table of contents
- I. Nocturnal Sounds (The Awakening)
- II. Wanderer-Fantasy
- III. The Advent
- IV. Myth
- V. Music of the Starry Night
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