Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics
George Crumb's Black Angels
10 minutes
First broadcast:Available for over a year
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. Show less