Crumb, G
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A selection of works for piano offers music of utmost simplicity —
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Special offer. George Crumb: Black Angels & Music for a Summer Evening
Philippe Hattat, Théo Fouchenneret (piano), Emmanuel Jacquet, Rodolphe Théry, Quatuor Hanson
Quatuor Hanson bring an energetic clarity and radiance to this now cult classic – with just the right amount of reverb to ensure its brittle glassiness and ghostly echoes of Schubert’s ‘Death... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, Chamber Choice
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Schallplattenkritik Quarterly Critics Choice, Autumn 2022, Contemporary Classical Music
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Beethoven: Complete Variations For Piano, Vol. 2
Sweelinck - Bach - Cage - Feldman - Crumb
Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
This is the rewarding second volume, weaving between Beethoven’s music and illuminating interjections by others. His playing is characterful and lively, relishing the inventive ways in which... —
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Müller-Schott ends this formidable unaccompanied recital with Pablo Casals’s Song of the Birds, played with the intense focus, the sense of line and the gleaming purity of tone that characterises... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2020, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Winner - Solo Instrumental Recital (Cello)
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Eve finds her voice as Prohaska and Drake navigate Eden’s bright spots and murkier corners. A heady selection of songs to intoxicate the senses; vivid storytelling and musicality. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Song
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In Heaven
Songs for a Trip to Space
Olivia Vermeulen (mezzo), Jan Philip Schulze (piano/synthesizer)
An extraordinary sonic journey. This duo consistently delivers inventive concepts yet their deeper artistic purpose never eclipses their light touch. Schulze's virtuosic playing matches Vermeulen's... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2026, Vocal Choice
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Special offer. Crumb: Three Early Songs, Vox Balaenae, Celestial Mechanics
Małgorzata Zarębińska (piano), Katarzyna Oleś-Blacha (soprano), Jan Krzeszowiec (flute), Marcin Misiak (cello), Piotr Grodecki (piano)
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Special offer. I and Silence: Women’s Voices in American Song
Marta Fontanals-Simmons (mezzo), Lana Bode (piano)
[‘Why do they shut me out of heaven?’] is a good example of Fontanals-Simmons’s tendency to prioritise solidity of vocal production and excellent diction over flashy point-making and expressive... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2019
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Special offer. Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 15
Patrick Mason (baritone), David Starobin (guitar) & Daniel Druckman (percussion), Jamie Van Eyck (mezzo-soprano) & Patrick Mason (baritone)
Orchestra 2001, James Freeman
[folksongs] are overlaid with Crumb's traditional 'night music' gestures - amplified piano strings plucked and beaten, bowed cymbals and gongs, chanting, whistling, and whispering. All this... —
