Crumb: The Sleeper |
This page lists all recordings of The Sleeper, by George Crumb (b.1929) on CD & DVD. Generally, more recent CDs and DVDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock. |
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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 12
The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), featuring Jamie Van Eyck (mezzo soprano) (The Sleeper) and Jacob Greenberg (piano) The latest disc in Bridge's ongoing Crumb series is in many ways one of the most impressive to date. The young American ensemble “ICE” worked with the composer on the interpretations of these pieces over a number of years, then recorded the performances under the composer's supervision. ICE's recordings present a level of virtuosity and faithfulness to Crumb's scores that reflect the experience of a generation of performers that has grown up playing this music. Some of Crumb's most popular work is included on this disc (Vox Balaenae) as are some of his most infrequently played scores (Dream Sequence and Five Pieces). With this disc Bridge draws near the completion of Crumb's 'back-catalogue' and plans to release the remaining works before the composer's 80th birthday in 2009. George Crumb is still actively creating new works, and two of these will soon be issued as Vol. 13- a two disc set. | 
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“Here the best-known work is Crumb's response to the 1969 moon landing, Night of the Four Moons, a typical example of his richly allusive style from that time, with references to Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and Haydn's Farewell Symphony clothing settings of poems by Lorca. The well-crafted Variazioni from 10 years earlier reveals the Schoenbergian raw material from which Crumb's more personal style would be forged, but Otherworldly Resonances for two amplified pianos from 2005 does nothing that the earlier music did not do more vividly and freshly...It's wonderful to hear again the late Jan De Gaetani's performance of Night of the Four Moons; nobody has sung Crumb's music of that period with more intensity or understanding than she did.” The Guardian, 20th June 2008 *** |
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Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Gilbert Kalish (piano) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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