UK three CD set. Something truly radical happened to the European classical music tradition in the years after the Second World War. At a time when the revolutionary principle of 12-tone composition...
Stockhausen / Wyttenbach,Janka & Jurg Stockhausen: Mantra CD1. Introduction Et "Thme"-Formule 2. Rptition Rgulire 3. Accent la Fin 4. Normal 5. Appoggiature Autour de la Note Centrale 6. Tremolo...
Mantra, composed in 1970 and premiered in Donaueschingen, was Karlheinz Stockhausen's first composition following the orchestral work "Carr?" to return to a largely traditional style of notation and...
Karlheinz Stockhausen recalled that one day in September 1969 'I had the idea of one single musical figure or formula that would be expanded over a very long period of time... I wrote down this...
As with many of the composer's works, live instruments are combined with electronics in Karlheinz Stockhausen's Mantra. Written in 1970, the work is scored for two ring-modulated pianos. Each player...