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Original 10 inch vinyl would give it extra context.
January 20, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Original 10 inch vinyl would give it extra context.
The very definition of a slow burner! The orchestra plays unisons on a single pitch at first in up to 60 different dynamics then slow rhythms and after half an hour a melody is revealed with glorious polyphony right at the end! Live performance synchronises the expressive Inori prayer gestures.
January 16, 2026 at 4:21 PM
The very definition of a slow burner! The orchestra plays unisons on a single pitch at first in up to 60 different dynamics then slow rhythms and after half an hour a melody is revealed with glorious polyphony right at the end! Live performance synchronises the expressive Inori prayer gestures.
I think the composer actually exceeded the 57 varieties of the food company.
January 16, 2026 at 1:20 PM
I think the composer actually exceeded the 57 varieties of the food company.
After the quality of their output dropped the band was dropped by their label before the new album dropped.
January 16, 2026 at 12:36 PM
After the quality of their output dropped the band was dropped by their label before the new album dropped.
Completely sold out, but you can hear the music boxes at this link.
www.karlheinzstockhausen.org/stockhausen_...
www.karlheinzstockhausen.org/stockhausen_...
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN: Spieluhren vom TIERKREIS
Stockhausen Official website. Karlheinz Stockhausen's music, works and history of the famous 20th century composer.
www.karlheinzstockhausen.org
January 16, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Completely sold out, but you can hear the music boxes at this link.
www.karlheinzstockhausen.org/stockhausen_...
www.karlheinzstockhausen.org/stockhausen_...
Which recording was most impressive, tape alone or tape & soloists?
January 15, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Which recording was most impressive, tape alone or tape & soloists?
It seems that you need to travel to find particular pieces. Large works by Boulez were programmed in Europe last year, even Boulez’ Pli Selon Pli with its extra percussion cost in London. Medium length Xenakis works have occasional performances near me in recent years. Tech heavy pieces less so.
January 14, 2026 at 4:06 PM
It seems that you need to travel to find particular pieces. Large works by Boulez were programmed in Europe last year, even Boulez’ Pli Selon Pli with its extra percussion cost in London. Medium length Xenakis works have occasional performances near me in recent years. Tech heavy pieces less so.
It is understandably hard to programme adventurous works that require far far more rehearsal time than familiar repertoire, and a typical orchestral budget might reserve whatever sponsored funding they have for a short new commission each season.
January 14, 2026 at 12:01 PM
It is understandably hard to programme adventurous works that require far far more rehearsal time than familiar repertoire, and a typical orchestral budget might reserve whatever sponsored funding they have for a short new commission each season.
I remember when albums being ‘dropped’ meant they were withdrawn rather than released!
January 14, 2026 at 11:42 AM
I remember when albums being ‘dropped’ meant they were withdrawn rather than released!
DG did release a few Stockhausen CDs thereafter e.g the 1984 opera box set Samstag aus Licht, but the composer stepped in to stop twenty years of music becoming unavailable overnight. Stockhausen also took back most of the CBS masters but new owner Sony have reissued the Kontarsky piano recordings.
January 12, 2026 at 3:45 PM
DG did release a few Stockhausen CDs thereafter e.g the 1984 opera box set Samstag aus Licht, but the composer stepped in to stop twenty years of music becoming unavailable overnight. Stockhausen also took back most of the CBS masters but new owner Sony have reissued the Kontarsky piano recordings.
It’s quite a good sampler for these pieces, each radically different in sound from all the others. The lengths of each track being several minutes, when even serious arts documentaries seldom dare to give you enough time to listen before the voiceovers return!
January 12, 2026 at 11:31 AM
It’s quite a good sampler for these pieces, each radically different in sound from all the others. The lengths of each track being several minutes, when even serious arts documentaries seldom dare to give you enough time to listen before the voiceovers return!
DG had an exclusive contract to release Stockhausen’s new LPs up until about 1981. Then abruptly back catalogue went out of print, leading the composer to take out a loan and regain the rights to several dozen recordings and keep the recordings available via remastered CD (if only via mail order).
January 11, 2026 at 2:17 PM
DG had an exclusive contract to release Stockhausen’s new LPs up until about 1981. Then abruptly back catalogue went out of print, leading the composer to take out a loan and regain the rights to several dozen recordings and keep the recordings available via remastered CD (if only via mail order).
This is also the first LP in the rarer double album “Greatest Hits” from Polydor.
January 11, 2026 at 11:34 AM
This is also the first LP in the rarer double album “Greatest Hits” from Polydor.
“I let the sounds be themselves” and “music is organised sounds” are such contrasting quotes. We are lucky they are both such persuasive approaches.
January 9, 2026 at 1:53 PM
“I let the sounds be themselves” and “music is organised sounds” are such contrasting quotes. We are lucky they are both such persuasive approaches.
The duet Laub und Regen is “leaves and rain” rather than “sun and rain” originally from Stockhausen’s theatre piece Herbstmusik (autumn music).
January 5, 2026 at 1:09 PM
The duet Laub und Regen is “leaves and rain” rather than “sun and rain” originally from Stockhausen’s theatre piece Herbstmusik (autumn music).
As it’s a repeated Trumpism, you’d have to ask the self-proclaimed genius to explain the mathematics involved.
January 1, 2026 at 1:59 PM
As it’s a repeated Trumpism, you’d have to ask the self-proclaimed genius to explain the mathematics involved.
Yes, it’s a lack of intermodulation (running two different sounds through a special circuit to produce an original new sound). Fading tracks up and down in the mix is quick & easy, but the sounds just never control each other in the Beatles track, nor are they shredded and reassembled in new ways.
December 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Yes, it’s a lack of intermodulation (running two different sounds through a special circuit to produce an original new sound). Fading tracks up and down in the mix is quick & easy, but the sounds just never control each other in the Beatles track, nor are they shredded and reassembled in new ways.
As for what’s described here as “drones”, the Montag music with ultra slow thematic layers of very harmonically static, almost meditative sounds, reveal the subtle tempi variation, that remove any secure foundation for the listener, but fit the slow watery tides of the themes very appropriately!
December 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
As for what’s described here as “drones”, the Montag music with ultra slow thematic layers of very harmonically static, almost meditative sounds, reveal the subtle tempi variation, that remove any secure foundation for the listener, but fit the slow watery tides of the themes very appropriately!
An illuminating article emphasising how approachable and enjoyable certain opera’s from Licht can be when given a staged theatrical presentation. Stockhausen’s operas revealed as not only rich and inventive but gifts to creativity where directors fit each dream into a theatrical space.
December 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
An illuminating article emphasising how approachable and enjoyable certain opera’s from Licht can be when given a staged theatrical presentation. Stockhausen’s operas revealed as not only rich and inventive but gifts to creativity where directors fit each dream into a theatrical space.