Details

Subject(s)

• Sextets (Pianos (2), percussion) [Browse]
• String quartet with string orchestra, Arranged [Browse]
• Vocalises with instrumental ensemble [Browse]

Instrumentalist

• Cladera, Andrés [Browse]
• Lorenz, Nena [Browse]
• Manríquez, Luz [Browse]
• Morales, Walter [Browse]
• Passaris, Michael [Browse]
• Shope, Mark [Browse]
• Spurgeon, Brian [Browse]

Conductor

• Izquierdo, Juan Pablo [Browse]

Performer

• Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic Orchestra [Browse]
• Cuarteto Latinoamericano [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Sound recordings [Browse]

Contains

Crumb, George. Black angels; arranged. [Browse]

Notes

• Makrokosmos III scored for 2 pianos and 2 percussion, performed here by 2 pianos, 4 percussion, and voice/slide whistle/recorder; Black angels originally for amplified string quartet, arr. by Juan Pablo Izquierdo for string quartet, 4 percussion, 4 vocalists, and string orchestra.
• Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 7, 2013).

Time and place of event

Recorded at Carnegie Mellon School of Music Oct.-Nov. 2002 (Black angels), Feb.-Apr. 2003 (Makrokosmos III).

Participant(s)/​Performer(s)

Luz Manríquez, Walter Morales, piano ; Nena Lorenz, Brian Spurgeon, Michael Passaris, Mark Shope, percussion ; Andrés Cladera, voice, slide whistle, recorder ; Douglas Ahlstedt, Evgeny Operdelennov, voice ; Cuarteto Latinoamericano (Saúl Bitrán, Arón Bitrán, violin ; Javier Montiel, viola ; Alvaro Bitrán, violoncello) ; members of the Carnegie Mellon Philhamonic ; Juan Pablo Izquierdo, voice, conductor.

Language note

The 1st work includes ritualistic counting in French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Russian, and Swahili.

Contents

• Makrokosmos III, Music for a Summer Evening. Nocturnal Sounds (The Awakening) ; Wanderer Fantasy ; The Advent ; Myth ; Music of the Starry Night
• Black Angels, Thirteen Images from the Dark Land. Night of the Electric Insects ; Sound of Bones and Flutes ; Lost Bells ; Devil Music ; Danse Macabre ; Pavana Lachrymae (Der Tod und das Mädchen) ; Black Angels ; Sarabanda de la Muerte Oscura ; Lost Bells (Echo) ; Return: God-music ; Ancient Voices ; Ancient Voices (Echo) ; Night of the Electric Insects.

Other format(s)

Previously released as a compact disc.

OCLC

854921617

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