Karlheinz Stockhausen: Refrain

lovely piece composed in 1959. This is from an out-of-print recording with Tudor, the two Kontarsky's and some other guy I can't recall the name of...

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Music

Tags:

• stockhausen
• refrain
• piano
• percussion

[KurtBeekeeper]

Perhaps to the title should be added the words "from composing, please!!" But hey, never mind, now he's decomposing.

[flammesombres]

@KurtBeekeeper Normally I'd delete such a comment, but I think I'll leave this one up, as it proves that not only are you types so fascistic that you'd actually stop people from composing what they want to, but that you're happy to see them dead and buried (yes, I know it was a humorous comment, but 'behind every joke lies an element of truth'). If anything it shows how completely blinded by unjustified hatred all of you are, rendering your abilities to think completely useless.

[carlolaurenzi]

english translation: "a quiet and spacious sound-composed structure is disrupted six times by a short chorus. The chorus is mounted on a transparent, hinged strip over the largely circular score and can be positioned by the players before the performance"

[spcfsu1]

Beautiful and rare piece. A Stockhausen under Morton Feldman influence... Thanks !

[userAMH]

Its probably the recording with Christoph Caskel and the Kontarsky-Brothers. Its written for "3 performers". Stockhausen said about the piece:

Stockhausen: „ein stilles und weiträumig komponiertes Klanggefüge wird sechsmal durch einen kurzen Refrain gestört. Der Refrain ist auf einem transparenten, drehbaren Streifen über der weitgehend kreisförmigen Partitur befestigt und kann so von den Spielern vor der Aufführung positioniert werden."