Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 3
George Crumb - 70th Birthday Album
2001 GRAMMY WINNER -
STAR-CHILD: BEST COMPOSITION
FANFARE: CRITIC'S CHOICE, BEST OF YEAR
DISC OF THE MONTH, DECEMBER 1999 and
10/10 - HIGHEST RATING,
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TOP 10 CDs OF 1999, PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE
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George Crumb
70th Birthday Album
Complete Crumb Edition, Volume 3
Star-Child (1977)
for soprano, trombone, children's choir, male choir, bell-ringers
and large orchestra (premiere recording)
Susan Narucki, soprano
Joseph Alessi, trombone
George Crumb, bell-ringer
Warsaw Boys' Choir
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Thomas Conlin, conductor
Mundus Canis (1998) "A Dog's World"
for guitar and percussion (premiere recording)
David Starobin, guitar
George Crumb, percussion
Three Early Songs (1947)
for voice and piano
Ann Crumb, soprano
George Crumb, piano
BRIDGE 9095
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Three works by George Crumb, the American master composer.
Star-Child, the 2001 Grammy Winner for Best Contemporary Composition. This work was considered "unrecordable" by
Boulez as it calls for multiple orchestras to perform simultaneously with different conductors. Through digital technology, Bridge has provided the first studio recording of this work ever. Thomas Conlin leads the Warsaw Philharmonic to extraordinary heights in Crumb's apocalyptic masterpiece.
Mundus Canis (A Dog's World)is a series of short works for guitar and percussion. David Starobin and George Crumb play these 5 works, based on the Crumb family dogs. Crumb and Starobin have since taken this piece on the road for a series of performances both across the USA and around the world.
George Crumb calls his Three Early Songs "the sins of his youth." These songs are certainly far from sinful, though stylistically far different from his later work. Crumb performs them on the piano, while his daughter, Ann Crumb, sings the vocal parts.
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