STOCKHAUSEN Kurzwellen
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Composer or Director: Karlheinz Stockhausen
Genre:
Chamber
Label: Mode Records
Magazine Review Date: 03/2019
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 48
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: MOD-CD302
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Kurzwellen |
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer
CLSI Ensemble Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer |
Author: Richard Whitehouse
The pioneering versions of Kurzwellen, supervised by the composer (and currently available as Vol 13 of the Stockhausen Edition) are mainly of interest for featuring a stellar line-up of new-music exponents cast adrift in a controlled ‘happening’ that feels self-conscious compared to that by the CLSI Ensemble. Formed in 2007 to realise such projects, the eight musicians take on a range of acoustic and electronic instruments to which shortwave radio becomes at once a textural focus and structural continuum – however disparate the context.
How one assesses the result depends on how one responds to the underlying premise (which is explained at length and with insight by Leopoldo Siano in the booklet), but there can be no doubt this realisation honours the composer’s intentions while imparting a deftness and even playfulness to the music-making, as sampling any of these 31 individual tracks should make plain. Moreover, the pan-cultural inclusiveness Stockhausen was at pains to convey is always apparent – the Circle for the Liberation of Sound and Image assuredly living up to its name.
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