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March 5, 2008

136 :: Friday, March 7, 2008 :: Stockhausen's STIMMUNG

Harmonia Mundi 807408 (2007)

Karlheinz Stockhausen's STIMMUNG from 1968 in an excellent new Harmonia Mundi recording and new interpretation (Copenhagen 2007) by Paul Hillier's Theatre of Voices -  Harmonia Mundi 807408 (2007)

Greg Sandow's WSJ review of this recording from September 2007 is here.

(While Stimmung is over 78 minutes long, we will be hearing the final 50 minutes) 

 

A page from the score of Stimmung

 

Stockhausen's handwritten score is dated "San Francisco 1967" is published by Universal Edition.

More information about Stimmung is here and here

My own photograph from a 1971 Paris performance with the original Collegium Vocale:

 

Paris 1971
 

 

March 12, 2008

Coming Next: Program 137 - Friday March 14 11pm

Coming up on Friday:   3 Women

Elena Kats-CherninGypsy Ramble  (1996)

Alwynne Pritchard: Invisible Cities (1999)

Hyo-Shin Na:  Walking, Walking (2004)