About Black Angels
The American composer George Crumb (1929) is considered one of the most important musical innovators of our time. In each work he creates a unique soundscape, partly by using new playing techniques and musical notations, but also by integrating non-Western elements into his music. His music sounds atmospheric, mysterious and sometimes oppressive, but is often very directly accessible due to its visual qualities.
Black Angels, subtitled Thirteen Images from the Dark Land, is one of his most intense and best-known works. It was written in 1970, at the time of the Vietnam War, for an ‘electric string quartet’.
