Balance
*2022 Stock.* Balance (7th Hour from Klang, 2007) and Glück (Bliss, Eighth Hour from Klang, 2007) are both wind trios which adapt and re-sequence melodic and rhythmic material from Schönheit (on The Stockhausen Edition no. 87) to create a similarly hypnotic web of lyrical polyphony, approaching and receding from the listener. - Stockhausenspace.blogspot.com
Harmonien
*2022 Stock.* Harmonien (Harmonies, 5th Hour from Klang, 2006) consists of three adaptations (for bass clarinet, flute, trumpet) of a composition for a solo melody instrument, in which broad melodic fragments are answered by brisk cycles of related arpeggio figures (or broken chords). These ostinato figures are modulated dynamically so that they subtly approach and recede. In Schönheit (Beauty, 6th Hour from Klang, 2006) the material from the three arrangements of Harmonien are layered and synch…
Klang- Die 24 Stunden Des Tages: 3.Stunde: Natürliche Dauern Für Klavier
*2022 Stock.* Natürliche Dauern (Natural Durations, 3rd Hour from Klang) for piano (2005/06) is presented in a 2 CD set. Some of these short piano etudes (24 in all) are predicated on the decay times of sustained, pianistic attacks, while others are fascinating explorations of melodic and rhythmic contrast. These final, late-era piano pieces are truly beautiful postcards of shape and color.- Stockhausenspace.blogspot.com
Freude
*2022 Stock.* Freude (Joy, 2nd Hour from Klang) for 2 harps (2005) consists of 24 moments, each linked with a liturgical verse sung by one or both harpists during performance. This piece is one of Stockhausen's most lyrical pieces in the traditional sense, although it is still based on a chromatic tonality.- Stockhausenspace.blogspot.com
Michaels-Ruf / Bassetsu / Synthi-Fou / Quitt / Komet / Trumpetent
*2022 Stock.* Chamber Works from Licht, for Brass, Reeds, Percussion & Electronics.
Two Skies
"Two Skies" is the first recording of an ongoing collaboration betweenviolinist Maya Bennardo, bass clarinetist Erik Blennow Calälv, and kacapi musician Kristofer Svensson, who have been playing together in Stockholm since 2020. Bringing together different performance and composition practices—contemporary classical, free improvisation, and Sundanese music—the music on this album represents a hybrid form of chamber music. In its origination, it is a form of music between improvisation and compos…
Residy
'The music on this album is a variation on a variation, the Goldberg Variation no. 21 by JS Bach. In a moment of realistic modesty, it struck me that I will probably never live up to my old dream of being able to play all the Goldberg variations in a way that’s at least close to the composer’s intentions and that pleases my own ears. However, I reckoned, perhaps I could use the score of one of the pieces as a foundation to build something else. Exploring and at the same time (re)creating the res…
Night Will Fade and Fall Apart
"As I perceive it, in much of Magnus Granberg’ work, going back as far as projects such as Sheriff, there’s an in-drawing nurturing of self. However one may read the beautifully poetic, frequently melancholic nature of the titles of the pieces, this is far from a flattening of the nature of existence but rather a celebration of the interior life of the individual, both of the composer and his growing, attentive, audience, accumulated over time due to a remarkably consistent series of releases. T…
Free Spirits
'When I first had the chance to listen at Markus Stockhausen performing live at Conservatorio Nicolini in Piacenza, some years ago, I immediately had the intuition of this musical meeting. I was sure that the poetry of Lino Capra Vaccina will melt with Markus’ one in a completely intuitive, spontaneous way, creating something really unusual, really new. When, some months later, I had the chance to produce then meet the great Santoor player Alireza Mortazavi for the album Hamdelaneh (with Markus,…
Light Colours In Jyderup
*111 copies limited edition. 2022 stock* ‘Light Colours In Jyderup’ is a trademark Marta Forsberg composition – in a relatively short space of time, the Swedish composer is able to transform the simplest of sonic materials into the most magical, transcendent experience. Using only vocals and some effects, she makes a handful of students from a tiny Danish town sound both alien and medieval; the way the piece unfolds is graceful, its tone and feeling is sacred yet warm, like a Christmas carol fro…
Punkte with introduction
*2022 Stock.* Punkte was presented in an earlier form on The Stockhausen Edition no. 2 (1966 version, rec. 1977). This version, recorded in 2004 with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne under Péter Eötvös (and using modern high fidelity), is a version of Punkte revised in 1994. The CD includes an introduction by Stockhausen (in German and English). - Stockhausenspace.blogspot.com
Momente
*2022 Stock.* This is a 2 CD presentation of a new recording of Momente from 1998. Momente has a "mobile-form", which means that the individual segments can be rearranged from performance to performance (typically pre-arranged at the conductor's discretion). Therefore this version is again unique from the 1965 and 1972 versions of Momente found on The Stockhausen Edition no. 7. Like the 1965 version, it does start with the "clapping" sequence, but in this performance the transition from "audienc…
Selected Improvisations From Golha, Pt. I
Tip! *In process of stocking* A collection of stunning Persian-tuned piano pieces cut from Iranian national radio broadcasts made for the Golha programmes between 1956 & 1965... Morteza Mahjubi (1900-1965) was a Iranian pianist & composer who developed a unique tuning system for the piano which enabled the instrument to be played in all the different modes and dastgahs of traditional Persian art music. Known as Piano-ye Sonnati, this technique allowed Mahjubi to express the unique ornamental and…
Vibra-Elufa
*2022 Stock.* This CD highlights three different percussionists (Michael Pattmann, Andreas Boettger, and Stuart Gerber), as well as the synthesizer of Antonio Pérez Abellán. Klavierstück XVIII and Mittwoch-Formel are two arrangements of the Licht super-formula (theme) on synthesizer and percussion trio, respectively. Komet (for a solo percussionist) is accompanied by a unique tape piece where the voice of Kathinka Pasveer takes on the two children's chorus parts from Kinderkrieg (1995). This pie…
Sonntags-Abschied
*2022 Stock. Includes a 20-page booklet in German and English.* Sonntags-Abschied (Sunday Farewell) contains the exit music for Sonntag aus Licht, programmed and performed by a synthesizer quintet. Harmonically, Sonntags Abschied is an arrangement of the choral structure from Hoch-Zeiten (CD 73 or 71). These dynamic, somewhat vocally-articulated layers are organized as slowly changing, static harmonies - but with very active inner vibrations (embellishments and melodic transitions). - Stockhause…
Hoch-Zeiten
*2022 Stock.* Hoch-Zeiten (High-Times, 2001/02, 5th scene of Sonntag aus Licht) for orchestra and choir. The 5th scene of Sonntag aus Licht is actually a 2-part conception. One part is staged as an instrumental orchestral work, and the other is a simultaneous a cappella choral work performed in another room. However, sounds from the orchestral part are piped into the choral work, and vice-versa. This CD presents the orchestra point of view (WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne), followed by that of th…
9 Düfte Der Woche
*2022 Stock.* 9 Düfte Der Woche (9 Scents of the Week, from Düfte – Zeichen) for 7 vocalists, boy’s voice, synthesizer (2002). This CD contains the nine songs from Düfte – Zeichen (Scents – Signs), 4th scene of Sonntag Aus Licht (Sunday from Light) on the Stockhausen Edition no. 69, but without the background ensemble vocals. In other words, each song is presented as an independently-performed vocal work, backed only by the synthesizer part. - Stockhausenspace.blogspot.com
Düfte - Zeichen
*2022 Stock.* Düfte - Zeichen (Scents – Signs, 4th scene of Sonntag aus Licht (Sunday from Light) for 7 vocalists, boy’s voice, synthesizer (2002). This Scene features six vocalists grouped as soloists, in duets, and in trios, supported and bracketed by rhythmically-free (aleatoric) background ensemble text and glassy synthesizer harmonies. At the end are two additional songs featuring a youth "from the audience". The vocal texts (included in the booklet) describe the themes behind each of the s…
Licht-Bilder
*2022 Stock. Includes a 56-page illustrated booklet in German and English.* Licht-Bilder, Licht Pictures, 3rd scene of Sonntag aus Licht (Sunday from Light), for tenor vocalist and basset-horn, with ring-modulated flute and trumpet (2002/03). Licht-Bilder is performed by a tenor soloist (Hubert Mayer), ring-modulated trumpet (Marco Blaauw), bassett-horn (Suzanne Stephens) and ring-modulated flute/alto-flute (Kathinka Pasveer), as they polyphonically explore variations on a backwards form of the …
Engel - Prozessionen
*2022 Stock. Engel - Prozessionen (Angel Processions), 2nd scene of Sonntag Aus Licht (Sunday from Light) for choir groups. The 1st disc on this 2 CD set contains the complete recording of Engel - Prozessionen, the 2nd Scene from Sonntag Aus Licht (Sunday from Light), performed by the Groot Omroepkoor (Netherlands Radio Choir), and featuring soloists Isolde Siebert, Janet Collins, Hubert Mayer and Andreas Fischer. This scene is structured as 56 short, polyphonic vocal pieces performed by 7 sepa…