Stockhausen: Samstag aus Licht
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Composer: Karlheinz StockhausenConductor: Karlheinz Stockhausen
Orchestra: University of Michigan Symphony Band
Orchestra: Kollberg Percussion Ensemble
Performer: Markus Stockhausen
Performer: Majella Stockhausen
Performer: Kathinka Pasveer
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Polygram Records
Free Music Notes for Stockhausen: Samstag aus Licht
Free Music Review: First Recording of Premiere Performance
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the first recording of :Samstag: and the unrevised version simply unfolding in two Acts, Lucifer's Dream and Lucifer's Dance. Stockhausen always had an interest in cosmology,ancient myths,ancient spaces and processes looking at single tones on the piano as simply "particles" in the universe to be utilized in much larger,massive structures of the entire opera LICHT which is now complete.,or envisioning harmonies as "collectors" for other dusts from the unknown/known ether.LICHT An opera named after each day of the week,utilizes the entire edifice of the 20th CEntury in terms of timbral developments, textural modulations, antiphonal spatial dealings with the performance space.Solos. The principle characters are Lucifer, Michael (portrayed by, his Son a trumpeter with mutes in his belt, ready for action,much like St George or Siegfried, ready to slay the dragons of the universe, and Eve a Basset/Bass Clarinetist. Lucifer, well we all know about him, is represented via a Trombone. And this recording reveals the freedom under which Stockhausen writes his music; a wonderful display of free timbres floating, Schwebenklangen throughout the universe of listening, with a large interlude of solo trumpet. The Klaverstuck #13 on revision became the accompaniment to Lucifer's Dream,with the pianist also on stage moving around the piano while playing,not in the orchestral pit,and firing small child rockets into the performance space, Stockhasen devised a FORMULA( a series of informations) that helps control every aspect of the entire operas LICHT, and the function is more-or-less like a Tone Row, Die Reihe,that gives shape(s),colour(s), dimensions,melodic, chord(s), harmonic design(s), time(s) and temporalities, even choreography(s) to the proceedings that function along cosmological lines. It is indeed interesting although hearing the revision leaves this first original version as being merely a reading.. The University of Michigan Marching Band was in Germany I beleive at the time and in the premiere they come out to play about half an hour of the work,mostly brass. is heard these concoted walls of timbre,joining the forces of Lucifer. The work has a post0modern like affinity, re-doing re-visiting already devised musics from Stockhausen's past achievements. The LICHT operas have more an accessible bend to them much more than any Stockhausen who may have already have experienced.
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