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Some cracking Crumb
Chamber works by the US composer resonate in this 1978 live set by Ensemble Dreamtiger
Crumb
Dream Sequence; Sonata for Solo Cello*; Vox Balaenae
*Rohan de Saram (cello); Ensemble Dreamtiger
FHR FHR130 48:57 mins
A leading avant-gardist of his times, George Crumb (1929-2022) seems increasingly to have been ahead of them. Two of the works here – live-recorded in Holland in 1978 by the similarly epoch-defining Ensemble Dreamtiger (1973-89) – show him at his most environmentally aware.
, 1976, is underpinned by the reverberant spaces of his West Virginia valley home. ‘It’s haunting, you know,’ he once said – and his violin, cello,
