Composer: George Crumb
Performer: Yoshiko Shimizu, Akiko Shibata, Rupert Struber, Natsumi Shimizu
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Kairos
Catalogue: KAI0015029
Release: 2018
Size: 300 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
CD 01
Makrokosmos I (Twelve fantasy-pieces after the zodiac for amplified piano)
01. Pt. 1: No. 1, Primeval Sounds (Cancer)
02. Pt. 1: No. 2, Proteus (Pisces)
03. Pt. 1: No. 3, Pastorale (Taurus)
04. Pt. 1: No. 4, Crucifixus (Capricorn)
05. Pt. 2: No. 5, The Phantom Gondolier (Scorpio)
06. Pt. 2: No. 6, Night-Spell I (Sagittarius)
07. Pt. 2: No. 7, Music of Shadows (Libra)
08. Pt. 2: No. 8, The Magic Circle of Infinity (Leo)
09. Pt. 3: No. 9, The Abyss of Time (Virgo)
10. Pt. 3: No. 10, The Spring-Fire (Aries)
11. Pt. 3: No. 11, Dream Images (Gemini)
12. Pt. 3: No. 12, Spiral Galaxy (Aquarius)
Makrokosmos II (Twelve fantasy-pieces after the zodiac for amplified piano)
13. Pt. 1: No. 1, Morning Music (Cancer)
14. Pt. 1: No. 2, The Mystic Chord (Sagittarius)
15. Pt. 1: No. 3, Rain-Death Variations (Pisces)
16. Pt. 1: No. 4, Twin Suns (Gemini)
17. Pt. 2: No. 5, Ghost-Nocturne, for the Druids of Stonehenge (Virgo)
18. Pt. 2: No. 6, Gargoyles (Taurus)
19. Pt. 2: No. 7, Tora! Tora! Tora! (Scorpio)
20. Pt. 2: No. 8, A Prophecy of Nostradamus (Aries)
21. Pt. 3: No. 9, Cosmic Wind (Libra)
22. Pt. 3: No. 10, Voices from Corona Borealis (Aquarius)
23. Pt. 3: No. 11, Litany of the Galactic Bells (Leo)
24. Pt. 3: No. 12, Agnus Dei (Capricorn)
CD 02
Makrokosmos III (Music for A Summer Evening)
01. No. 1, Nocturnal Sounds (The Awakening)
02. No. 2, Wanderer-Fantasie
03. No. 3, The Advent
04. No. 4, Myth
05. No. 5, Music of the Starry Night
A new double-CD release with Japanese pianist Yoshiko Shimizu, playing George Crumb’s Makrokosmos, Volume I, Volume II and Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) accompanied by Austrian percussionist Rupert Struber.
The title Makrokosmos reflects Crumb’s admiration for Bartók’s piano series Mikrokosmos.
Makrokosmos Volume I and Volume II are filled with references to the history of humankind, myths, Christianity, paganism and occultism.
In Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) Crumb pays a tribute to poetic quotations of Quasimodo, Pascal and Rilke.
The composer himself regards these three works as forming a trilogy.