Ancient Voices of Children / Makrokosmos III

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Crumb’s affinity for what the New York Times describes as “exotically sensual sound colors” and “extravagantly mystical allusions” is on full display in the two pieces featured here: Ancient Voices for Children, a song-cycle based on texts by Garcia Lorca, and Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III), which both references Bartók’s influence on the composer and uses techniques and sonorities uniquely Crumb’s own.

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The CD of this album is available to purchase at ArkivMusic.

Pulitzer Prize–winning composer George Crumb’s affinity for what the New York Times describes as “exotically sensual sound colors” and “extravagantly mystical allusions” is on full display in the two pieces featured here: Ancient Voices for Children, a song cycle based on texts by Federico Garcia Lorca, and Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III), which both references Bartók’s influence on the composer and uses techniques and sonorities uniquely Crumb’s own.

ProductionCredits

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Recorded January 1971 (tracks 1-6) and January 1975 (tracks 7-10) in New York City
Engineering & musical supervision: Marc J. Aubort, Joanna Nickrenz (Elite Recordings, Inc.)
Mastering: Robert C. Ludwig (Masterdisk Corp.)
Coordinator: Teresa Sterne

Composed by George Crumb; texts for Ancient Voices of Children by Federico García Lorca

Cover art: Bob Pepper

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79149

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George Crumb
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MUSICIANS
Ancient Voices of Children
Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano
Michael Dash, boy soprano

The Contemporary Chamber Ensemble
Arthur Weisberg, conductor
George Haas, oboe, harmonica
Stephen Bell, mandolin
Susan Jolles, harp
Gilbert Kalish, electric piano, toy piano
Raymond DesRoches, Raymond Fitz, Howard Van Hyning, percussion
Jacob Glick, musical saw

Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III)
Gilbert Kalish, James Freeman, piano
Raymond DesRoches, Richard Fitz, percussion

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News & Reviews

  • Kronos Quartet’s award-winning 1990 album Black Angels will be released on vinyl on February 16, 2024, to coincide with Kronos Quartet: Five Decades, a year-long celebration of the quartet’s 50th anniversary. First released in 1990, the album features George Crumb’s title piece, which inspired David Harrington to found the quartet in 1973, and works by Charles Ives, István Márta, Thomas Tallis, and Dmitri Shostakovich. The fourth side of the vinyl is an etching of an illustration created especially for this purpose by Matt Mahurin, whose work is featured on the original album cover. The Evening Standard included Black Angels among its “100 Definitive Classical Albums of the 20th Century.”

  • American composer George Crumb died at his home in Pennsylvania on Sunday at the age of 92. The Nonesuch recording of his Ancient Voices of Children, a song-cycle based on texts by Garcia Lorca, performed by Jan DeGaetani and the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, become a defining album of the label’s early years. Kronos Quartet's recording of his Vietnam War protest piece Black Angels, which Kronos founder David Harrington has credited with helping to inspire the group's formation, was included among the Evening Standard's 100 Definitive Classical Albums of the 20th Century.

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  • About This Album

    The CD of this album is available to purchase at ArkivMusic.

    Pulitzer Prize–winning composer George Crumb’s affinity for what the New York Times describes as “exotically sensual sound colors” and “extravagantly mystical allusions” is on full display in the two pieces featured here: Ancient Voices for Children, a song cycle based on texts by Federico Garcia Lorca, and Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III), which both references Bartók’s influence on the composer and uses techniques and sonorities uniquely Crumb’s own.

    Credits

    MUSICIANS
    Ancient Voices of Children
    Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano
    Michael Dash, boy soprano

    The Contemporary Chamber Ensemble
    Arthur Weisberg, conductor
    George Haas, oboe, harmonica
    Stephen Bell, mandolin
    Susan Jolles, harp
    Gilbert Kalish, electric piano, toy piano
    Raymond DesRoches, Raymond Fitz, Howard Van Hyning, percussion
    Jacob Glick, musical saw

    Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III)
    Gilbert Kalish, James Freeman, piano
    Raymond DesRoches, Richard Fitz, percussion

    PRODUCTION CREDITS
    Recorded January 1971 (tracks 1-6) and January 1975 (tracks 7-10) in New York City
    Engineering & musical supervision: Marc J. Aubort, Joanna Nickrenz (Elite Recordings, Inc.)
    Mastering: Robert C. Ludwig (Masterdisk Corp.)
    Coordinator: Teresa Sterne

    Composed by George Crumb; texts for Ancient Voices of Children by Federico García Lorca

    Cover art: Bob Pepper