EPISODE · Mar 11, 2012 · 10 MIN
George Crumb's Black Angels
from Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics · host BBC Radio 3
Violinist David Harrington celebrates George Crumb's groundbreaking 1970 work for electric string quartet, Black Angels - the work which inspired him to form the Kronos Quartet. Gillian Moore puts the piece in context, as a work full of dark foreboding and extreme sounds, in direct reaction to the Vietnam War.
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