Stockhausen: Complete Early Percussion Works

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what struck me is how fresh and strong all these pieces come up...it’s very clean and clear...I found it exciting hearing this again, which I wasn’t expecting to...fine performances and recording. — CD Review, 31st January 2015 More…

Release Date: 24th Nov 2014
Catalogue No: MOD-CD-274
Label: Mode
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

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Stockhausen: Refrain, Work No. 11

Work length10:15

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Pavlos Antoniadis, James Avery, Steven Schick

Stockhausen: Schlagtrio, Work No. 1 / 3

Work length16:07

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Katalin Lukàcs, Justin Dehart, Fábio Oliveira

Stockhausen: Kontakte, Work No. 12 1 / 2 (Version for Piano, Percussion & 4-Track Tape)

Work length34:59

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James Avery, Steven Schick

Stockhausen: Zyklus

Work length10:30

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Steven Schick

Stockhausen: Mikrophonie I, Work No. 15

Work length31:43

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Stockhausen’s early percussion music is among the most visionary of the percussion repertoire. This unique collection features some works which are almost impossible to find elsewhere.

'Zyklus' was not only a novel composition in terms of its treatment of time and structure, it was also the first percussion solo ever performed.

'Kontakte', a masterpiece for piano and percussion with 4-channel tape, challenges performers to play together and to make the maximum number of “contacts” with the tape. Schick and Avery have performed this work together for decades, and this recording shows that experience to full effect. Mode’s new transfers from the analogue tapes for this recording reveal greater detail and low end frequency response.

FIRST RELEASE IN SURROUND!

'Mikrophonie' calls for 6 percussionists playing a single instrument – a giant 60” tam-tam. Three musicians activate the instrument from either side. One player performs on the tam-tam using a large array of mallets and small objects, a second holds a highly directional microphone and also plays the tam-tam, and the third is a sound designer who sits in the hall and regulates settings for volume, filtration and spatial diffusion of the sounds. The result is an extraordinary and theatrical sound world.

In 'Refrain', the three performers produce an array of pure tones from their primary instruments to noisy shouted syllables and tongue clicks. In the most complex passages, the sounds merge nearly completely. 'Schlagtrio' is one of Stockhausen’s earliest published pieces. Rather than articulating the differences between piano and percussion, he is interested in creating a continuum between the two.

Available as this 2-CD set OR on a single DVD mode274dvd

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CD Review 31st January 2015

what struck me is how fresh and strong all these pieces come up...it’s very clean and clear...I found it exciting hearing this again, which I wasn’t expecting to...fine performances and recording.

January 2015

percussionist Steven Schick here directs an appropriately permuated ensemble in a set of crisp performances that lend the works a newly minted aspect.

7th January 2014

As far as I know, Mikrophonie I has only been recorded once before, in the 1960s, with Stockhausen himself supervising the two players...Not the most instantly attractive of Stockhausen’s early works, perhaps, or the most vivid, but it’s still intensely fascinating, and as Schick and his colleagues show, it’s a piece than can produce effects of considerable grandeur and tingling suspense.

Stockhausen: Complete Early Percussion Works

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