Description
No composer had a greater appetite for revolution than Stockhausen, who was embarking on a quest that would occupy him for more than half a century, and which would take in a whole gamut of constantly re-defined objectives - among them 'point music', 'spatial music' and 'multi-formula composition'. His early electronic compositions such as the Studies were painstakingly and meticulously constructed using magnetic tape, to be followed over the ensuing decade by the works which ranked among the masterpieces of electronic music, Gesang der JuÌnglinge (Song of the Youths) and Kontakte (Contacts). All of these unprecedented early electronic works are included in this 3 CD box set presentation which also incorporates such visionary creations of intellect and sensitivity as Pierre Boulez' orientally flavoured 'Le Marteux Sans Maitre', recorded under the baton of Robert Craft, Xenakis' brilliant explorations of the dramatic and colouristic properties of concreÌte sound, 'PoeÌme eÌlectronique', Edgard VareÌse's extraordinary response to a commission from Le Corbusier for music for the pavilion of the 1958 Brussels World Fair, and Ligeti's 'conversation without words', 'Artikulation', alongside the audacious Cartridge Music, for 'amplified small sounds' constructed by John Cage, using phonograph cartridges inserted with feathers, lengths of wire, toothpicks, pipe cleaners, small twigs, wire coils and nails to make audible otherwise indiscernible sounds.
Additional Details
Label: El
Genre: Classical
Run Time: 120 mins
Region: 0
Release Date: 10/26/18
UPC: 5013929333901
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