For those of us who were lucky enough to attend a performance of 'Sternklang' in Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham in the early 90s, in Midsummer eve, controlled by the composer with the CBSO, and completely free, utterly amazing, and long in the memory. I think that most of the crowd were rat-arsed, but this did wonders for the whole thing. Unfortunately, attempts to acquire a recording thereafter have not be successful
Nonetheless, I have become a complete Karl Heinz Stockhausen dude, and have a lot of his work on my shelves, including 'Stimmung' (Singcircle), 'Gruppen' for three orchestras with bawdy Claude on DG, and 'Aus den sieben Tagen'. Again, attempts to purchase a Licht cycle on CD still elude me: I did see a recording of 'Montag', 'Donnerstag' and 'Samstag' on the shelves in an agreeable Berlin shop, but this was very expensive as it was the Verlage edition on KS's own label, and I am still holding out for the DG original issue.
In the meantime, I shall have to be contented with Rattle and the CBSO in Brum, conducting Stravinsky Agon, Messiaen and two doses of 'Gruppen' shortly before he went off to Berlin in 1997
Nonetheless, I have become a complete Karl Heinz Stockhausen dude, and have a lot of his work on my shelves, including 'Stimmung' (Singcircle), 'Gruppen' for three orchestras with bawdy Claude on DG, and 'Aus den sieben Tagen'. Again, attempts to purchase a Licht cycle on CD still elude me: I did see a recording of 'Montag', 'Donnerstag' and 'Samstag' on the shelves in an agreeable Berlin shop, but this was very expensive as it was the Verlage edition on KS's own label, and I am still holding out for the DG original issue.
In the meantime, I shall have to be contented with Rattle and the CBSO in Brum, conducting Stravinsky Agon, Messiaen and two doses of 'Gruppen' shortly before he went off to Berlin in 1997
Originally posted by Mandryka
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