George Crumb / Earle Brown: Piano Duo Degenhardt-Kent Play New Music for 1, 2 & 3 Pianos (1991)

The German piano duo of Degenhardt-Kent are among George Crumb's preferred pianists. Here they had the unique opportunity to work with both Crumb and Brown on this composer supervised disc, awarded four stars by France's prestigious Le Monde de la Musique. The works range from piano 4-hands (expanded to 6-hands in some movements!) for Celestial Mechanics, to 2 pianos (Zeitgeist) and on to 3 spatially distributed pianos for Corroboree.

Tracklist

GEORGE CRUMB (b.1929)

Celestial Mechanics (Makrokosmos IV) (1979)
Cosmic Dances for 4-hands

I. Alpha Centauri
II. Beta Cygni
III. Gamma Draconis
IV. Delta Orionis

EARLE BROWN (1926 - 2002)

Corroboree (1964)
for 3-pianos

First recording on CD

GEORGE CRUMB

Zeitgeist (1988, revised 1989)
Six Tableau for Two Amplified Pianos, Book 1

I. Portent
II. Two Harlequins
III. Monochord
IV. Day of the Comet
V. The Realm of Morpheus ("...the inner eye of dreams")
VI. Reverberations

Written for Degengardt-Kent · First recording


Peter Degenhardt, Fuat Kent & Jovita Zähl, pianos

Mode Records: mode 19