Makrokosmos I & II

Album by George Crumb & Jo Boatright

Makrokosmos I & II is a two-volume set of works for amplified piano by American composer George Crumb, composed in 1972 and 1973. The pieces use extended techniques, prepared and amplified sonorities and theatrical notation to create delicate, otherworldly textures, and they mark a significant development in Crumb's mid-career exploration of experimental timbres and miniature forms within contemporary classical music.
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  1. 1.
    Makrokosmos, Volume I: Primeval Sounds (Genesis I) Cancer [George Rochberg]
    4:31
  2. 2.
    Makrokosmos, Volume I: Proteus Pisces [William Reed Crumb]
    1:18
  3. 3.
    Makrokosmos, Volume I: Pastorale (From the Kingdom of Atlantis, Ca. 10,000 B.C.) Taurus [Johannes Brahms]
    2:08
  4. 4.
    Makrokosmos, Volume I: Crucifixus Capricorn [Ross Lee Finney]
    2:59
  5. 5.
    Makrokosmos, Volume I: The Phantom Gondolier Scorpio [George Henry Crumb]
    3:31
  6. 6.
    Makrokosmos, Volume I: Night-Spell I Sagittarius [Anton Webern]
    4:11
  7. 7.
    Makrokosmos, Volume I: Music of Shadows (For Aeolian Harp) Libra [Paul Zukofsky]
    2:20
  8. 8.
    Makrokosmos, Volume I: The Magic Circle of Infinity (Moto Perpetuo) Leo [Claude Debussy]
    1:53
  9. 9.
    Makrokosmos, Volume I: The Abyss of Time Virgo [Arnold Schoenberg]
    2:54
  10. 10.
    Makrokosmos, Volume I: Spring-Fire Aries [David R. Burge]
    1:55
  11. 11.
    Makrokosmos, Volume I: Dream Images (Love-Death Music) Gemini [Federico Garcia Lorca]
    4:43
  12. 12.
    Makrokosmos, Volume I: Spiral Galaxy Aquarius [Beatrice Wernick]
    3:10
  13. 13.
    Makrokosmos, Volume II: Moring Music (Genesis II) Cancer [Jan Degaetani West]
    2:53
  14. 14.
    Makrokosmos, Volume II: The Mystic Chord Sagittarius [Robert Miller]
    2:13
  15. 15.
    Makrokosmos, Volume II: Rain-Death Variations Pisces [Frédéric Chopin]
    1:49
  16. 16.
    Makrokosmos, Volume II: Twin Suns (Doppelgänger aus der Ewigkeit) Gemini [Elizabeth Ann Crumb]
    3:22
  17. 17.
    Makrokosmos, Volume II: Ghost-Nocturne: For the Druids of Stonehenge (Night-Spell II) Virgo [Anton Bruckner]
    2:39
  18. 18.
    Makrokosmos, Volume II: Gargoyles Taurus [Paul Parmelee]
    1:15
  19. 19.
    Makrokosmos, Volume II: Tora! Tora! Tora! (Cadenza Apocalittica) Scorpio [Lewis Kaplan]
    2:18
  20. 20.
    Makrokosmos, Volume II: A Prophecy of Nostradamus Aries [Howard Waltz]
    3:58
  21. 21.
    Makrokosmos, Volume II: Cosmic Wind Libra [Storm Bull]
    2:37
  22. 22.
    Makrokosmos, Volume II: Voices From "Corona Borealis" Aquarius [Elizabeth May Crumb]
    4:57
  23. 23.
    Makrokosmos, Volume II: Litany of the Galactic Bells Leo [Richard Veleta]
    2:45
  24. 24.
    Makrokosmos, Volume II: Agnus Dei Capricorn [Richard Wernick]
    3:28

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