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Karlheinz Stockhausen
Mantra
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1986 recording of this infamous piece (originally premiered in 1970), performed by Yvar Mikhashoff (piano) and Ole Orsted (electronics). Each of the sections comprises a microcosm from a different perspective. 'Mantra' is such a piece in that each of of its parts reflects itself, backwards, as in a mirror, standing on its head, elongated, compressed, twisted. It is super-redundant, pervasive, just like a bottle of Coke, that instead of a beverage produces the famous concept of 'Coca-Cola'... it is played once quite openly, and then as a kind of prayer, time and again in all its ratios of pitches, durations and tempos by the pianists. Indeed, it is a quasi-meditative, exotic, beautiful late- and post-serial music.
Details
Cat. number: NA 025 CD
Year: 1990
Release notes
Recorded January 1986 at the Sonja Henie-Niels Onstad Museum, Oslo, Norway. © ℗ 1990 New Albion Records. Packaged in a standard jewel case with eight-page booklet with notes in German and English.
Tracklist
| 1 | 00'00" | 2:10 | |
| 2 | 02'15" | 4:37 | |
| 3 | 06'38" | 4:51 | |
| 4 | 11'38" | 5:34 | |
| 5 | 17'23" | 2:52 | |
| 6 | 20'00" | 4:39 | |
| 7 | 24'44" | 5:04 | |
| 8 | 29'53" | 4:22 | |
| 9 | 34'15" | 3:35 | |
| 10 | 37'50" | 4:43 | |
| 11 | 42'40" | 4:44 | |
| 12 | 47'10" | 6:04 | |
| 13 | 53'20" | 3:16 | |
| 14 | 56'33" | 3:25 | |
| 15 | 60'15" | 5:24 | |
| 16 | 65'20" | 3:19 | |
| 17 | 69'30" | 0:55 |
Credits
- Zauwaki
- Cover
- William Reuter Design
- Design
- Ole Ørsted
- Electronics
- Mats Claessen
- Engineer
- Foster Reed
- Executive-Producer
- Reinhard Oehlschlägel
- Liner Notes
- Geir Johnson
- Liner Notes [English Translation], Producer
- Clive Barda
- Photography By [Portrait At La Scala]
- Rosalind Bevan
- Piano
- Yvar Mikashoff
- Piano
- Steen Espersen
- Technician [Technical Setup, Copenhagen]
