George Crumb - Makrokosmos, Volume 1 - David Burge

 

Part Two

George Crumb

Makrokosmos, Volume 1

Twelve Fantasy-Pieces After The Zodiac For Amplified Piano

David Burge, Piano

Engineer & Musical Supervision: Marc J. Aubort & Joanne Nickrena (Elite Recording, Inc.)

Mastering: Robert C. Ludwig (Sterling Sound, Inc.)

Coordinator: Teresa Sterne

Cover Design: Paula Bisacca

Cover Reproduction of No. 12 Spiral Galaxy (Aquarius) courtesy of the publisher by C. F. Peters Corporation, 1973

Nonesuch H-71293

1974

From the back cover: George Crumb was born in Charleston, West Virginia. His principal teacher in composition was Ross Lee Finney at the University of Michigan. Crumb's Echoes Of Time And The River; Four Processionals For Orchestra, premiered by the Chicago Symphony, was awarded the 1968 Pulitzer Prize in Music. In 1971, his Ancient Voices Of Children (Nonesuch -71255) received both the International Rostrum of Composers (UNESCO) Award and the Koussevitzky International Recording Award. Since 1965, Mr. Crumb has taught composition at the University of Pennsylvania.

David Burge (b. 1930, Evanston, Ill.), one of America's foremost performers of contemporary music, received music degrees from Northwestern University and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree and Artists Diploma from the Eastman School of Music. Active as a composer, pianist and conductor, Burge has been a professor on the music faculty of the University of Colorado, Boulder, since 1962. He founded the University's Festival of Contemporary Music in 1966 and continued as its director for six years, also serving as musical director and conductor of the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, 1965-72. Mr. Burge is a founding member of the American Society of University Composers and has been its Chairman since 1970. In his frequent tours of Europe, the Far East, and the United States, Burge has given premiere performances of a number of contemporary piano works, several of them written for him. He has recorded for Advance, Candide, Fratellie Fabbri, and Mercury; his Advance album New Piano Music, FRG-3, includes George Crumb's Five Pieces For Piano. This recording marks his first appearance on Nonesuch.

Part One

Primeval Sounds (Genesis I) Cancer

Proteus Pisces

Pastorale (from the Kingdom of Atlantis, ca. 10,000 B.C.) Taurus 

Crucifixus Capricorn

Part Two

The Phantom Gondolier Scorpio

Night-Spell I Sagittarius

Music of Shadows (for Aeolian Harp) Libra

The Magic Circle of Infinity (Moto Perpetuo) Leo

Part Three

The Abyss of Time Virgo

Spring-Fire Aries

Dream Images (Love-Death Music) Gemini

Spiral Galaxy Aquarius