Excellent to see this classic of the extended piano – using amplification, demanding playing from the inside and whistling and singing from the pianist – getting another recorded performance as good as this. Crumb’s poetic and atmospheric effects, saturated with literary and musical allusion, are fastidiously realized – so it’s now Nasveld on Attacca (4/87) for the Complete Works or Boatright for these two volumes of Makrokosmos.'