George Crumb Edition Vol. 17 - Voices from the Morning of the Earth

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Label
Bridge Records
Release Date
June 2, 2015
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      CRUMB, GEORGE
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Orchestra 2001
    • PERFORMER
      ORCHESTRA 2001
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 02, 2015
    • UPC
      090404944529
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BCD9445
    • LABEL
      Bridge Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. My Lord, What a Beautiful Morning!

      Composer: George Crumb

      Ensemble: Orchestra 2001

      Performer: Ann Crumb, Randall Scarlata

      Conductor: James Freeman

    2. II. A Mountaineer's Sad Song

      Composer: George Crumb

      Ensemble: Orchestra 2001

      Performer: Ann Crumb, Randall Scarlata

      Conductor: James Freeman

    3. III. Weep, All Ye Little Rains

      Composer: George Crumb

      Ensemble: Orchestra 2001

      Performer: Ann Crumb, Randall Scarlata

      Conductor: James Freeman

    4. IV. Dry Bones (Humoresque Macabre)

      Composer: George Crumb

      Ensemble: Orchestra 2001

      Performer: Ann Crumb, Randall Scarlata

      Conductor: James Freeman

    5. V. Put My Little Shoes Away (from the Ozarks)

      Composer: George Crumb

      Ensemble: Orchestra 2001

      Performer: Ann Crumb, Randall Scarlata

      Conductor: James Freeman

    6. VI. Blowin' in the Wind (after. B. Dylan)

      Composer: George Crumb

      Ensemble: Orchestra 2001

      Performer: Ann Crumb, Randall Scarlata

      Conductor: James Freeman

    7. VII. When the Saints Go Marching In

      Composer: George Crumb

      Ensemble: Orchestra 2001

      Performer: Ann Crumb, Randall Scarlata

      Conductor: James Freeman

    8. VIII. Goodbye, Old Paint

      Composer: George Crumb

      Ensemble: Orchestra 2001

      Performer: Ann Crumb, Randall Scarlata

      Conductor: James Freeman

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

      Composer: George Crumb

      Ensemble: Orchestra 2001

      Performer: Ann Crumb, Randall Scarlata

      Conductor: James Freeman

    10. X. Where Have All the Flowers Gone? (after P. Seeger)

      Composer: George Crumb

      Ensemble: Orchestra 2001

      Performer: Ann Crumb, Randall Scarlata

      Conductor: James Freeman

    11. An Idyll for the Misbegotten, "Images III"

      Composer: George Crumb

      Performer: Rachel Rudich, David Colson, Paul Herrick, A.J. Matthews

    12. The Sleeper

      Composer: George Crumb

      Performer: Ann Crumb, Marcantonio Barone


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.”