George Crumb, Black Angels - Ensemble intercontemporain

George Crumb : "Black Angels" pour quatuor à cordes électrifié
Captation du 3 avril 2011 à la Cité de la musique (Paris)
Jeanne Marie Conquer, violon
Hae Sun Kang, violon
Christophe Desjardins, alto
Pierre Strauch, violoncelle

[daveflippo]

I heard Crumb's Black Angels when I was a sophomore in school-a piano major at the time- and it made me decide to go into music composition. I ended up doing a twenty page analysis of it for my teachers required four-page analysis assignment.
It seems as if it is from another world...

[sylvainpenard]

00:00 : Threnody I: Night of the Electric Insects (tutti)
01:46 : Sounds of Bones and Flutes (trio)
02:24 : Lost Bells (Duo)I. Departure
03:35 : Devil-music (solo: cadenza accompagnata)
05:15 : Danse Macabre (duo)
II. Absence
06:11 : Pavana Lachrymae (Der Tod und das Mädchen) (trio)
07:37 : Threnody II: Black Angels! (tutti)
10:10 : Sarabanda de la Muerte Oscura (trio)
11:10 : Lost Bells (Echo) (duo)
III. Return
12:31 : God-music (solo: aria accompagnata)
16:12 : Ancient Voices (duo)
16:49 : Ancient Voices (Echo) (trio)
17:10 : Threnody III: Night of the Electric Insects (tutti)

[crushingbelial]

My guy on the cello gets a ripping amount of overtones out of bowing the gong. So awesome. Wonderful performance

[haotianyu]

Best performance of this piece. Hard work pays off.

[davidrowe]

I LOVE that your glasses are filled with wine rather than just water! LOL

[hungryghost]

Marvelous! This piece seems very hard to play and yet they made an incredibly clean job. Thanks for uploading

[nicksmith]

Literally gives me a fucking panic attack

[giuseppedimarco]

A True Performance of wonderful work! Great!

[dragoncantor]

Wonderful performance of a great piece. Thank you. I'm glad the NY Times steered us here.

[andremation]

Harmonious and graceful. Truly a magnificent piece

[PLZHN_______]

Why is this piece so weirdly beautiful dark and mysterious creepy but greeny

[scottgilesmusic]

Excellent, exciting, electric elegant experience!

[topquark]

mystérieux, fascinant, captivant, comme la découverte d un monde inconnu, nouveau,

[MojoPapanik]

amazing music! thanks for uploading this!!

[cobblestonegenerator]

Amazing! Gotta love Crumb. I wanna smack those coughers on the back of the head though. Is it that hard to wait till a loud section to cough? It seems they specifically wait for the absolute most silent of places. Any way, props to this quartet for pulling of this ridiculous piece.

[marshallartz]

It’s George Crumb, the composer, not Robert (R.) Crumb, the cartoonist.

[creamforever]

la 'copas perfomance' sobra; debieron beberlas antes

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[andreslka]

I would love to hear the sarabande at the end.. but I didnt.

[frankel]

Surely this is the music of Greek tragedy.