Ceylon/Bird of Passage
Released: 1975
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Released: 1975
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This is an odd Stockhausen release, apparently a mid-'70s attempt to market him to a crossover audience, one that would accept his brand of "noise" if couched in some quasi-Indian guise. Whether it...
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Stimmung
Released: 1986
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Released: 1986
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"Stimmung," translatable as "tuning" or "being in tune with," is a long-form exploration of vocal harmonics for six vocalists and six microphones. The entire piece is based on a low B flat, from...
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In the Sky I Am Walking
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Though Bull and Cree tepees adorn the CD book, there are only eight minutes of folk songs here, which, despite percussion, sound distinctly European (somewhere between Fauré's Requiem and...
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Stop/Ylem
Released: 1974
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Released: 1974
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"Stop", an ensemble work originally written in 1965 but here in a version specially conceived in 1973 for the London Sinfonietta, is a fine example of how German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen...
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Kontakte
Released: 1959
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Released: 1959
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Kontakte is the epitome of Stockhausen's pioneering "moment form," characterized by long periods of inactivity broken by sudden changes. The prepared tape used in the work consists of a variety of...
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Carré für Vier Orchester U. Vier Chöre (Carré for Four Orchestras and Four Cho - SQUARE
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Composed in the years 1958 - 1959, in collaboration with British composer Cornelius Cardew, this work extends the orchestral field and forces required by the composer's "Gruppen for 3 Orchestras,"...
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