{"product_id":"crumb-george-makrokosmos-i-ii-music-cd-4260063108150","title":"Crumb,george - Makrokosmos I \u0026 Ii - Music CD","description":"There are a number of cyclically arranged piano works in music history that have assumed the significance of \"bibles\" for pianists, including Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier (48 preludes and fugues in two volumes), Frdric Chopin's 24 Prludes, Claude Debussy's Prludes (24 in two volumes), Dmitri Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues, and Gyrgy Ligeti's tudes. This \"genre\" is inconceivable today without the first two (of four) cycles by George Crumb comprising 24 tone-pictures: Makrokosmos I \u0026amp; II, performed here by Markus Stange. Composed in 1972 and '73, they very rapidly became a classic of modernism and the most immediately enchanting and popular piano cycle of the last third of the 20th century. Almost incidentally, they unfold a comprehensive panorama of the techniques and sonorous manipulations of the modern grand piano. Crumb has thus succeeded in creating a work that does more than justice to both the explorative claims of the avant-garde and the untrained ear of the amateur. Pianist Markus Stange was born in Ludwigshafen, Germany. He studied piano with Jrgen Uhde in Stuttgart, Roland Keller in Lbeck, and Frantisek Rauch and Valentina Kamenkov in Prague, then attended master courses with Ditta Psztory-Bartk and Aloys Kontarsky. He is currently Professor of Piano at the Music Academy in Karlsruhe.","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49207639277810,"sku":"NOE10815.2","price":23.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/7018\/9810\/files\/3021641.jpg?v=1778869378","url":"https:\/\/discandvinyl.com\/products\/crumb-george-makrokosmos-i-ii-music-cd-4260063108150","provider":"DiscandVinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}