Karlheinz Stockhausen
Orvonton
FormatCDLabelStockhausen-VerlagGenreExperimental
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Orvonton is the fifteenth hour of Klang, written in 2007 by Karlheinz Stockhausen for baritone and electronic music. The accompaniment is taken from the layers of Cosmic Pulses (Stockhausen Edition no. 91), and the soloist sings over it as one of eight such pieces (Hours 14 to 21) for a voice or a wind instrument.
The vocal part divides into roughly 24 moments, each organised around a central pitch from the 24-note row of Klang, where the singer lingers, with widely spaced groups of pitches leading up to it. In this vocal piece, rapid pulses in the electronic music mark the start of a new moment. The text describes the musical structure of the work itself. Jonathan de la Paz Zaens is the baritone, and Stockhausen is said to have written the piece with his voice in mind. Zaens gave the first performance in the KOMED-Saal in Cologne on 8 May 2010, at the MusikTriennale Köln. The recording was made in 2010 according to the Stockhausenspace listing, and the disc includes the electronic part alone, without the voice, for rehearsal. The Verlag lists the score at about 24 minutes.
This is Stockhausen Edition no. 93, published by Stockhausen-Verlag as one CD.
