Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 17

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The Sleeper, a setting of Edgar Allan Poe for soprano (originally Jan DeGaetani) and prepared piano, superbly performed by Ann Crumb and Marcantonio Barone, is rich with eerie sounds and whisperings,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015 More…

Release Date: 28th Aug 2015
Catalogue No: BRIDGE9445
Label: Bridge
Series: George Crumb Edition
Length: 66 minutes

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Crumb, G: Voices from the Morning of the Earth (American Songbook VI)

Work length49:42

$11.00

$14.30

Randall Scarlata, Ann Crumb
Orchestra 2001
James Freeman

I. My Lord, What a Beautiful Morning!

Track length6:56

$1.00

$1.30

II. A Mountaineer's Sad Song

Track length6:10

$1.00

$1.30

III. Weep, All Ye Little Rains

Track length4:37

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Dry Bones (Humoresque Macabre)

Track length3:00

$1.00

$1.30

V. Put My Little Shoes Away (From the Ozarks)

Track length4:02

$1.00

$1.30

VI. Blowin' in the Wind (Bob Dylan)

Track length5:45

$1.00

$1.30

VII. When the Saints Go Marching In

Track length3:32

$1.00

$1.30

VIII. Goodbye, Old Paint

Track length4:40

$1.00

$1.30

IX. O Peter, Go-Ring-a dem Bells

Track length2:36

$1.00

$1.30

X. Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

Track length8:24

$2.00

$2.60

Crumb, G: An Idyll for the Misbegotten

Work length11:49

$3.00

$3.85

Paul Herrick, A.J. Matthews, David Colson, Rachel Rudich
Orchestra 2001
James Freeman

Crumb, G: The Sleeper

Work length4:51

$1.00

$1.30

Marcantonio Barone, Ann Crumb
Orchestra 2001
James Freeman

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Voices From The Morning Of The Earth: A Cycle of American Songs from North and South, East and West (2008) is the sixth of seven American Songbooks that occupied George Crumb for most of the millennium’s opening decade. This recording (Volume 17 of Bridge’s Crumb Edition) completes Bridge’s cycle of Crumb’s American Songbooks. The seven songbooks are approximately five hours in length, and constitute George Crumb’s magnum opus. Also on this CD is Crumb’s Idyll for the Misbegotten. The composer writes that “flute and drum are to me those instruments which most powerfully evoke the voice of nature. I have suggested that ideally (even if impractically) my Idyll should be “heard from afar, over a lake, on a moonlit evening in August.” The Sleeper with words by Edgar Allan Poe, transforms Poe’s lugubrious meditation on a dead beloved (“Soft may the worms about her creep!”) into a haunting ode to a woman slumbering beneath the “mystic moon.” George Crumb’s complete American Songbook series can be heard on these CDs: BRIDGE 9413 (American Songbook VII); BRIDGE 9335 (American Songbook V); BRIDGE 9275A/B (American Songbooks II & IV); and BRIDGE 9218A/B (American Songbooks I & III).

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December 2015

The Sleeper, a setting of Edgar Allan Poe for soprano (originally Jan DeGaetani) and prepared piano, superbly performed by Ann Crumb and Marcantonio Barone, is rich with eerie sounds and whisperings, conjuring a world that is uniquely Crumb's.

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