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Crumb, George

Vox Balaenae

(Hat [now] ART

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Personnel:

Ensemble Fur Neue Musik Zurich

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UPC: 752156016625

Label: Hat [now] ART
Catalog ID: Hat [now] ART166
Squidco Product Code: 6915

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2006
Country: Switzerland
Packaging: Cardstock foldover
Recorded at DRS Radiostudio, in Zurich, Switzerland, in January, 1996, by Pere Casulleras.

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"George Crumb should be seen not as an isolated, iconoclastic voice who emerged unexpectedly in the '60s and continues to follow his own separate path, but as another important historical figure in the long line of American maverick composers... As a composer in search of transcendence, think of Ives, Cowell, Morton, Partch, Ellington, Nancarrow, Carter, Cage, Feldman,Tenney, Monk, among others, each in their own way. It is in this company that George Crumb belongs. A company beyond category."-Art Lange

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Avant-Garde
October 2006

Track Listing:

1-11. Eleven Echoes of Autumn (Echoes I)

12-15 Four Nocturnes (Night Music II)

16-23. Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale)

24. Dream Sequence (Images II)

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October 2006

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