FLAC tracks +Booklet | Classical | 53:30 | 160 MbThis album includes three completely stylistically different compositions by George Crumb, depicting different stages of the composer’s sonoristic quest, performed by Malgorzata Zarebinska (piano), Katarzyna Oles-Blacha (soprano), Jan Krzeszowiec (flute), Marcin Misiak (cello) and Piotr Grodecki (piano).

For over 60 years, George Crumb’s music has been recognised as a sonoristic phenomenon that cannot be compared to the output of other artists composing at the same time.

Although the catalogue of artistic influences under which Crumb was over the years is extremely extensive (starting from introducing quotes from the works by Johann Sebastian Bach, ending with a sporadic use of harmonic and rhythmic means identical with the style of Claude Debussy and Bela Bartok), these inspirations – even in the earliest phase of his activity – would usually turn out to be only a contribution to the creation of original music forms and crystallisation of a sonoristic sound landscape typical of the composer.

Tracklist:1. Crumb: Three Early Songs – Night – Malgorzata Zarebinska/Katarzyna Oles-Blacha2. Crumb: Three Early Songs – Let It Be Forgotten – Malgorzata Zarebinska/Katarzyna Oles-Blacha3. Crumb: Three Early Songs – Wind Elegy – Malgorzata Zarebinska/Katarzyna Oles-Blacha4. Crumb: Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) for Three Masked Players – Vocalize (…for the beginning of time)5. Crumb: Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) for Three Masked Players – Variations of Sea-Time, Sea Theme6. Crumb: Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) for Three Masked Players – Archeozoic (Var. I)7. Crumb: Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) for Three Masked Players – Proterozoic (Var. II)8. Crumb: Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) for Three Masked Players – Paleozoic (Var. III)9. Crumb: Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) for Three Masked Players – Mesozoic (Var. IV)10. Crumb: Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) for Three Masked Players – Cenozoic (Var. V)11. Crumb: Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) for Three Masked Players – Sea-Nocturne (for the end of time)12. Crumb: Celestial Mechanics (Makrokosmos IV) Cosmic Dances for Amplified Piano Four Hands – Alpha Centauri – Malgorzata Zarebinska/Piotr Grodecki13. Crumb: Celestial Mechanics (Makrokosmos IV) Cosmic Dances for Amplified Piano Four Hands – Beta Cygni – Malgorzata Zarebinska/Piotr Grodecki14. Crumb: Celestial Mechanics (Makrokosmos IV) Cosmic Dances for Amplified Piano Four Hands – Gamma Draconis – Malgorzata Zarebinska/Piotr Grodecki15. Crumb: Celestial Mechanics (Makrokosmos IV) Cosmic Dances for Amplified Piano Four Hands – Delta Orionis – Malgorzata Zarebinska/Piotr Grodecki