Music for a Summer Evening (1974)

Makrokosmos III, for two amplified pianos and two percussionists

by George Crumb (1929-2022)

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composition date: 1974
duration: 40min
publisher: Peters, San Antonio, Texas , P66590
Cycle: Makrokosmos
Dedicatee: au Swarthmore College
Commission: The Fromm Music Foundation

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Chamber music (Percussion and keyboard quartet)

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date: March 30, 1974
location: États-Unis, Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College
interpreters: Gilbert Kalish et James Freeman : piano, Raymond DesRoches et Richard Fitz : percussion.

Création du cycle complet Makrokosmos le 12 juin 1980 à Buffalo, New York, par Ivar Mikhashoff, Aki Takahashi, Stephen et Frieda Manes : pianos, Jan Williams et Lynn Harbold : percussion.

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Enregistrements : Susan Grace et Alice Rybak : pianos, David Colson et John Kinzie : percussion, 1 cd Bridge Records 9105, 2001 ; Fuat Kent et Peter Degenhardt : pianos, Carmen Erb et Hans-Peter Achberger : percussion, 1 cd col legno WWE 20023, 1999 ; piano & percussion : Susan Wenckus et Markus Stange : pianos, Markus Hauke et Michael Kiedaisch : percussion, 1 cd audite 97.455, 1997 ; Bojan Gorisek et Tatiana Ognjanovic : pianos, Lojze Gradisek et Boris Surbak : percussion, 1 cd Audiophile Classics 103301, 1997.

Part titles

I. Nocturnal Sounds (The Awakening)
II. Wanderer-Fantasy
III. The Advent
IV. Myth
V. Music of the Starry Night

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