Stockhausen: Samstag aus Licht: Akt 4 - Luzifers-Abschied (Part 1 and 2)

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In my opinion, this is Karlheinz Stockhausen's masterpiece. From the second opera in the LICHT (1977- 2003) cycle, "Samstag aus Licht" (1981). http://home.swipnet.se/sonoloco9/stockhausen/34.html

Listen with headphones or turn the volume up really loud!

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  • At least stockhausen, ligeti, xenakis, berio, stravinksy, messien, schnittkey, ect, were actually doing something inventive. Call it bad music, good music, amazing music, or complete garbage, they weren't following a trend like your Tokio Hotel, Hawthorne heights were they follow trends.

  • The music you hear on the radio, despite advances in recording technology, isn't that fundamentally different from primitive repetitive beats with influence from classical and world music thrown in. In fact, almost NO advances have been made in popular music since the Beatles. Okay, you have acidhouse and rap, those are quite unique, but pop and alternative is so cliched. Stockhausen's work is a step beyond - music which is HUMAN, not simian.

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  • @sixstringking6 I'm sorry man but I don't think Ligeti's music is that inventive, don't get me wrong I luuurve Ligeti but it's just that he was kinda following Bartok who for me is way more inventive. Ligeti is just an extension of Bartok IMHO. Besides, most of the people you call are really not that inventive, they just follow a trend like Tokyo Hotel or wtf it's called, atonality was a trend as well, you know. For me people like Georgs Pelecis and Mike Oldfield are the real original artists.

  • I find contemporary music a little problematic. On the one hand, you have pop artists, that produce more and more crap, and on the other hand, you have contemporary classical musicians that seems a little mad and create works that you're desperate to understand, in vain.

  • He really captures the evil of Lucifer in this peice. the snake hisses, the groans, the Gregorian like chants

  • He really captures the evil of Lucifer in this peice

  • @Loismustdie26 ok...now I agree

  • @Loismustdie26 lol...I should try :)

  • @LuliAngel It can be calming if you sort of listen to it in the background, but if you really focus all of your thoughts on this I think its really quite disturbing. It is an opera about the devil.

  • Stockhausen was influenced in this composition by "The Urantia Book" - an amazing book that changed my life- check it out.

  • Thank you so much for this! What is the source of these recordings?

  • @jeanhaliburtonwills I fully endorse it.

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