Comments on On An Overgrown Path: No Stockhausen - no Radiohead

While he had his idisyncrasies, no doubt, KS was a...

2007-12-10T16:41:00.000Z

While he had his idisyncrasies, no doubt, KS was a sincere and sweet man and as a composer left a legacy of a substantial number of truly great works. And to Ed Vulliamy's list, I would add a substantial quantum of later Miles Davis.

Email received:Stockhausen was a big influence on ...

2007-12-10T13:54:00.000Z

Email received:

Stockhausen was a big influence on my listening life from a very young age. I was "accidentally" introduced to Stockhausen when I was 9 and mother had bought a whole bunch of a series on DGG created specifically for the Canadian market called "Festival of Hits" featuring a specific composer or a genre (the discs were pressed in Germany, the cover are was by the incredible Holger Mathies" and each excerpt featured a statement on the jacket that said "the whole thing available on DGG" then the serial number. The series itself was in the 2538 000 series, except for the double LP which was in the 2721 000 series. I later became close friends with the person who put the series together. ANYWAY.....)

At first, I thought it was a joke, but I quickly became engrossed. I am proud to say that by the time I finished High School I had ALL the DG stockhausen releases. Not hard to do since they were being quickly deleted. I paid as little as $1.99 (1979 Cdn prices) for Kurzwellen, and .99(!) for Opus 1970. I even got the POLYDOR German release of Sternklang for $4.99 (all those discs were sold off by a dealer for me when I dumped my vinyl at an average of $90.00 a disc! D'OH!). I sued to play Stimmung for anyone who would listen. I still prefer the version of Kontackt without the live instruments.

People really forget that Stockhausen was amazingly structured. And his Aus Licht cycle is an amazing bit of theatre.Too many people tried to emulate him, which is why there was a plethora of electronic dreck out there. Having him as an influence was good, but copying outright was a mistake. His style definetly shows the influence of Messiaen without overtly copying it.

His music needs a serious re-evaluation now that he is gone and the body of his work complete.

Cheers

David Cavlovic

UEA links:http://www.overgrownpath.com/2006/06/nor...

2007-12-10T13:24:00.000Z

UEA links:

http://www.overgrownpath.com/2006/06/norman-fosters-sainsbury-centre.html

http://www.overgrownpath.com/2006/01/university-funding-crisis-deepens.html

Hyperion's recording of Stockhausen's Stimmung was...

2007-12-10T13:16:00.000Z

Hyperion's recording of Stockhausen's Stimmung was recorded at UEA:

Compact Disc CDA66115

Recorded in the University of East Anglia, Norwich, on 27, 28 January 1983
Recording Engineer
TRYGG TRYGGVASON
Recording Producer
MARTIN COMPTON
Design
TERRY SHANNON
Executive Producers
JOHN BICKLEY
EDWARD PERRY
© Hyperion Records Ltd, London, MCMLXXXVI
Duration: 70'20
DDD

KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN (b1928)
Stimmung
SINGCIRCLE

SUZANNE FLOWERS soprano
PENELOPE WALMSLEY-CLARK soprano
NANCY LONG mezzo soprano
ROGERS COVEY-CRUMP tenor
GREGORY ROSE baritone
PAUL HILLIER bass

GREGORY ROSE director

Contents:

Stimmung

DIAPASON D'OR

'A virtuoso performance' (Classical Music)
'Outstanding in its sensitivity and evocative power. Not to be missed' (Hi-Fi News)

'Something of a revelation' (The Times)

'The performance is so good, conveying a genuine contemplative intimacy' (The Sunday Times)

A terrific performance...I admire many of Stockhausen's pieces, but this is the only one that makes me smile' (Washington Post)

It is a nice tribute to Stockhausen by Ed Vulliamy...

2007-12-09T19:38:00.000Z

It is a nice tribute to Stockhausen by Ed Vulliamy in the Observer.

Shame, though, that Vulliamy gets the day of Stockhausen's death wrong.

As another newspaper journalist once famously said - 'Until bloggers deliver hard facts … paid for newspapers will continue to set the standard as the only show in town'.

http://music.guardian.co.uk/classical/story/0,,2224479,00.html

http://www.overgrownpath.com/2007/10/norman-lebrecht-and-unchecked-trivia.html