George Crumb 70th Birthday Album Review

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George Crumb 70th Birthday Album ReviewEver since I read a review of the concert where George Crumb's Star Child was premiered I've been hoping that a recording would be forthcoming. In a sense, this is your typical Crumb work, with it's wild vocalise, it's unusual instrumental effects, it's mixture of tonal and atonal elements, and, most of all, it's aura of ritual and mystery. It also breaks new ground in it's scope (a large orchestra used sparingly) and layering of different musics. I particularly love the duet between the soprano and trombone ("Voices Crying in the Wilderness" indeed!) and the quietly estatic closing, with the strings soaring into their highest range. The guitar work shows a lighter and humorous side of Crumb's art and are a delight, as are the early songs (although there is only a hint of the composer's later style buried in them). Anyone interested in comtemporary music that is both innovative and deeply expressive should check into this disk.George Crumb 70th Birthday Album OverviewThree 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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