Today Bridge Records releases the last volume, number 21, of the complete works of George Crumb, who died in 2022.

Today, Friday 1 March, the New York-based label Bridge Records has released the 21st volume of the complete works of American composer George Crumb, who died in 2022 at the age of 92, concluding a recording project that has lasted 42 years, having begun in 1982, barely a year after classical guitarist David Starobin founded the company. The final volume of the complete set includes compositions from the beginning, middle and end of Crumb’s 75 years-long career, and offers as a major attraction the first recording of the composer’s penultimate composition, the percussion quintet Kronos-Kryptos (Time-Secret). Volume 21 is completed with Crumb’s second composition, the Sonata for solo cello (1955), performed by cellist Timothy Eddy, as well as two performances of Crumb’s piano solo, Processional (1983), one by Gilbert Kalish and the other by Marcantonio Barone (alternative version with extended piano effects).

Coinciding with the release of the last volume, Bridge Records has released, for 191.95 euros, the complete edition of the series –Complete Crumb Edition-, consisting of 22 CDs and 1 DVD of recordings supervised by the composer made over these 42 years and in which Crumb himself appears as pianist, percussionist and narrator.