George Crumb: Dream Images – Love and Death Music (Gemini) from Makrokosmos – Jean Beers (amplified piano) – Live in concert at MuTh Konzertsaal, Vienna – September 2024. (Backstage camera view) George Henry Crumb Jr. (24 October 1929 – 6 February 2022) was an American composer of avant-garde contemporary classical music. Makrokosmos is a series of four volumes of pieces for piano by Crumb. Dream Images – Love and Death Music is the 11th piece in the cycle and the 3rd in part 3 of Volume I (after Spring-Fire – Aries). Makrokosmos, Volume I was composed in 1972 for pianist and friend David Burge (who previously commissioned and premiered Crumb's Five Pieces for Piano (1962). The collection is subtitled Twelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac and is scored for amplified piano. The pieces were allocated to the zodiac (star signs) by the composer. The dreamy and airy piece Dream Images – Love and Death Music is Crumb's star sign Gemini. Its contents of Volume I (Zodiac pieces) are as follows: Part 1: Primeval Sounds (Genesis I) (Cancer) Proteus (Pisces) Pastorale (from the Kingdom of Atlantis, ca. 10,000 B.C.) (Taurus) Crucifixus [SYMBOL] (Capricorn) Part 2: The Phantom Gondolier (Scorpio) Night-Spell I (Sagittarius) Music of Shadows (for Aeolian Harp) (Libra) The Magic Circle of Infinity (Moto Perpetuo) [SYMBOL] (Leo) Part 3: The Abyss of Time (Virgo) Spring-Fire (Aries) Dream Images (Love-Death Music) (Gemini) Spiral Galaxy [SYMBOL] (Aquarius) The last piece of each part is notated in such a way that the score forms an image: a cross (piece 4), a circle (piece 8), and a spiral (piece 12). Burge premiered Volume I at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, on 8 February 1973.

George Crumb: Aries "Spring-Fire" from Makrokosmos (composed 1972) – Jean Beers (amplified piano) – Live in concert at MuTh Konzertsaal, Vienna – September 2024. (Backstage camera view) George Henry Crumb Jr. (24 October 1929 – 6 February 2022) was an American composer of avant-garde contemporary classical music. Makrokosmos is a series of four volumes of pieces for piano by Crumb. Spring-Fire is the 10th piece in the cycle and the 2nd in part 3 of Volume I (after Abyss of Time). Makrokosmos, Volume I was composed in 1972 for pianist and friend David Burge (who previously commissioned and premiered Crumb's Five Pieces for Piano (1962)). The collection is subtitled Twelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac and is scored for amplified piano. The pieces were allocated to the zodiac (star signs) by the composer. The wild and hyper virtuoso piece Spring-Fire is Crumb's star sign Aries. Its contents of Volume I (Zodiac pieces) are as follows: Part 1: Primeval Sounds (Genesis I) (Cancer) Proteus (Pisces) Pastorale (from the Kingdom of Atlantis, ca. 10,000 B.C.) (Taurus) Crucifixus [SYMBOL] (Capricorn) Part 2: The Phantom Gondolier (Scorpio) Night-Spell I (Sagittarius) Music of Shadows (for Aeolian Harp) (Libra) The Magic Circle of Infinity (Moto Perpetuo) [SYMBOL] (Leo) Part 3: The Abyss of Time (Virgo) Spring-Fire (Aries) Dream Images (Love-Death Music) (Gemini) Spiral Galaxy [SYMBOL] (Aquarius) The last piece of each part is notated in such a way that the score forms an image: a cross (piece 4), a circle (piece 8), and a spiral (piece 12). Burge premiered Volume I at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, on 8 February 1973.

Stravinsky 'Le Sacre du Printemps', 1st & 2nd mvts. from part 1, transcription for solo piano by Jean Beers Jean Beers, piano live in recital at Goethe Institut London, June 2013 ... this video is "private" and may not be shared or published without express permission! ... thank you.

Beers: 'Nachklang' & 'Scherzo' from Piano Concerto no. 2 (composed 2015/2016) performed by the composer at the piano and Eton College Chamber Orchestra conducted by Jack Rozman at Concert Hall, Eton College, Windsor, 21st May 2016

Jean Beers: Bridge 3 and Etüde for the Left Hand from 'Fleeting Inspirations' (2003) www.jeanbeers.com Bösendorfer Concert Grand 290-265 'Imperial' https://www.boesendorfer.com/en/pianos/pianos/Concert-Grand-290-Imperial MUK https://muk.ac.at/en/home.html © Vladimir Bulzan L. Bösendorfer Klavierfabrik GmbH

Beers 'Margarita', no. 2 from 'Bulgakov Piano Cycle' (2009) Jean Beers, piano live performance: Richard Jakoby Saal, Hannover, 2011, Hans Leygraf in Memoriam concert

Live performance in Berlin last summer (2019) with the amazing dancer-choreographer (Tanzmacher) Ingo Reulecke (Professor of choreography at Ernst Busch Akademie Berlin). Check out Ingo's website: www.ingoreulecke.com What a joy this Duo project was! Post-corona – watch out world, we will return in the arts with panache and passion!

Mauricio Kagel 'An Tasten', Klavieretüde (1977) Jean Beers, piano live at Competition Finale 'Extra Klasse' for new music, Salzburg, summer 2011 in the beautiful concert hall of the Mozarteum 'Solitär'