Genre: Contemporary
Year of release: 1993
Disc manufacturer: Stockhausen Verlag | cat. no Compact Disc 14
Audio codec: APE
Rip type: image+.cue
Audio bitrate: lossless
Duration: 6h57m36s
Size: 1.76 GB
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CD 1 a: “RICHTIGE DAUERN” (“Right Durations”) for circa 4 players (May 7th 1968).
Recorded August 26th 1969, never played before. Duration: 21:00.
Participants: Carlos R. Alsina (piano & Hammond organ), Jean-François Jenny-Clark (double-bass), Jean-Pierre Drouet (percussion), Michel Portal (tenor saxophone & clarinet), Vinko Globokar (trombone), Karlheinz Stockhausen (voice, bamboo flute).
CD 1 b: “UNBEGRENZT” (“Unlimited”) for ensemble (May 8th 1968).
Recorded August 28th 1969 without previous rehearsal. Duration: 49:07.
Participants: Johannes G. Fritsch (viola with contact microphone and filter), Michel Portal (clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone), Carlos R. Alsina (piano), Jean-François Jenny-Clark (double-bass), Jean-Pierre Drouet (percussion), Vinko Globokar (trombone), Karlheinz Stockhausen (voice, 2 rin [metal cups: Japanese temple instrument], siren-whistle, short-wave receiver, 1 filter and 2 potentiometers for viola).
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CD 2 a: “VERBINDUNG” (“Connection”) for ensemble (May 8th 1968).
Recorded August 30th 1969 without previous rehearsal. Duration: 26:00.
Participants: Harald Bojé (electronium), Aloys Kontarsky (piano), Johannes G. Fritsch (viola with contact microphone and filter), Alfred Alings and Rolf Gehlhaar (tam-tam and percussion with microphone and filter), Jean-Pierre Drouet (tabla, Indian bells and other percussion instruments), Michel Portal (flute, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone), Jean-François Jenny-Clark (double-bass), Karlheinz Stockhausen (2 filters and 4 potentiometers for viola and tam-tam).
CD 2 b: “TREFFPUNKT” (“Meeting Point”) for ensemble, first version (May 8th 1968).
Recorded August 27th 1969 without previous rehearsal. Duration of first version: 10:30.
Participants: Aloys Kontarsky (piano), Rolf Gehlhaar (tam-tam with microphone and bamboo flute), Carlos R. Alsina (piano), Michel Portal (tenor saxophone and clarinet), Vinko Globokar (trombone), Karlheinz Stockhausen (glissando flute, short-wave receiver, 1 filter and 2 potentiometers for tam-tam).
CD 2 c: “TREFFPUNKT” (“Meeting Point”) for ensemble, second version (May 8th 1968).
Recorded August 27th 1969 without previous rehearsal. Duration of second version: 16:07.
Participants: Aloys Kontarsky (piano), Rolf Gehlhaar (tam-tam with microphone and bamboo flute), Carlos R. Alsina (piano), Michel Portal (tenor saxophone and clarinet), Vinko Globokar (trombone), Karlheinz Stockhausen (glissando flute, short-wave receiver, 1 filter and 2 potentiometers for tam-tam).
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CD 3 a: “NACHTMUSIK” (“Night Music”) for ensemble (May 8th 1968).
Recorded August 31st 1969 without previous rehearsal. Duration: 27:30.
Participants: Harald Bojé (electronium), Aloys Kontarsky (piano), Johannes G. Fritsch (viola with contact microphone and filter), Alfred Alings and Rolf Gehlhaar (tam-tam with microphone, flexatone, guero, Jew’s harp and other instruments), Jean-François Jenny-Clark (double-bass), Jean-Pierre Drouet (drum and other percussion instruments), Karlheinz Stockhausen (short-wave receiver, cuckoo flute, 2 filters and 4 potentiometers for viola and tam-tam).
CD 3 b: “ABWÄRTS” (“Downwards”) for ensemble, first version (May 8th 1968).
Recorded August 28th 1969 without previous rehearsal. Duration first version: 31:30.
Participants: Aloys Kontarsky (piano), Alfred Alings and Rolf Gehlhaar (tam-tam with microphone and percussion), Carlos R. Alsina (piano), Jean-Pierre Drouet (percussion), Vinko Globokar (trombone), Karlheinz Stockhausen (cuckoo flute, bamboo flute, short-wave receiver, glass with stones, cardboard box with sand and pebbles, 1 filter and 2 potentiometers for tam-tam).
CD 3 c: “ABWÄRTS” (“Downwards”) for ensemble, second version (May 8th 1968).
Recorded August 28th 1969 without previous rehearsal. Duration second version: 19:07.
Participants: Aloys Kontarsky (piano), Alfred Alings and Rolf Gehlhaar (tam-tam with microphone and percussion), Carlos R. Alsina (piano), Jean-Pierre Drouet (percussion), Vinko Globokar (trombone), Karlheinz Stockhausen (cuckoo flute, bamboo flute, short-wave receiver, glass with stones, cardboard box with sand and pebbles, 1 filter and 2 potentiometers for tam-tam).
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CD 4 a: “AUFWÄRTS” (“Upwards”) for ensemble (May 8th 1968).
Recorded August 29th 1969 without previous rehearsal. Duration: 30:30.
Participants: Aloys Kontarsky (piano), Johannes G. Fritsch (viola with contact microphone and filter), Alfred Alings and Rolf Gehlhaar (tam-tam and claves), Vinko Globokar (trombone), Karlheinz Stockhausen (filters and potentiometers for viola and tam-tam, short-wave receiver and 2 rin [Japanese temple instruments – metal cups]).
CD 4 b: “INTENSITÄT” (“Intensity”) for ensemble (May 9th 1968).
Recorded August 29th 1969 without previous rehearsal. Duration: 32:07.
Participants: Johannes G. Fritsch (viola with contact microphone and filter), Rolf Gehlhaar (large tam-tam with microphone and filter), Carlos R. Alsina (piano), Jean-François Jenny-Clark (double-bass), Jean-Pierre Drouet (percussion), Michel Portal (saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute), Karlheinz Stockhausen (hammer, nails, block of wood, sand-paper, rasp, file, 4 car-horns, siren-whistle, 2 filters for viola and tam-tam).
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CD 5 a: “SETZ DIE SEGEL ZUR SONNE” (“Set Sail for the Sun”) for ensemble (May 9th 1968).
Recorded August 30th 1969. Duration: 34:00.
Participants: Harald Bojé (electronium), Alfred Alings and Rolf Gehlhaar (tam-tam with microphone), Aloys Kontarsky (piano), Carlos R. Alsina (piano), Jean-François Jenny-Clark (double-bass), Johannes G. Fritsch (viola with contact microphone and filter), Michel Portal (E-flat clarinet, basset-horn, tenor saxophone, taragod), Jean-Pierre Drouet (percussion), Vinko Globokar (trombone), Karlheinz Stockhausen (2 filters and 4 potentiometers for viola and tam-tam)
CD 5 b: “KOMMUNION” (“Communion”) at first for 3, later for 4, 5, 6, 7 players, singers (May 9th 1968).
Recorded August 27th 1969 without previous rehearsal, though six of the eight players had tried out the text “VERBINDUNG”, presenting a similar formulation, three months earlier. Duration: 16:37.
Participants: Alfred Alings and Rolf Gehlhaar (tam-tam and percussion with microphone and filter), Johannes G. Fritsch (viola with contact microphone and filter), Carlos R. Alsina (Hammond organ and piano), Vinko Globokar (trombone), Jean-François Jenny-Clark (double-bass), Michel Portal (saxophone, flute, clarinet), Karlheinz Stockhausen (voice, short-wave receiver, glass with stones and 2 filters and 4 potentiometers for tam-tam and viola).
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CD 6 a: “ES” (“It”), first version (May 10th 1968).
First version recorded August 26th 1969. Duration: 25:30.
Participants: Vinko Globokar (trombone), Carlos R. Alsina (piano), Jean-François Jenny-Clark (double-bass), Jean-Pierre Drouet (percussion), Michel Portal (saxophone, flute, clarinet), Karlheinz Stockhausen (voice, siren-whistle, short-wave radio).
CD 6 b: “ES” (“It”), second version (May 10th 1968).
Second version recorded August 31st 1969. Duration: 24:37.
Participants: Harald Bojé (electronium), Aloys Kontarsky (piano), Johannes G. Fritsch (viola with contact microphone and filter), Alfred Alings and Rolf Gehlhaar (large tam-tam with microphone and filter), Karlheinz Stockhausen (filters and potentiometers for tam-tam and viola, voice).
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CD 7: “GOLDSTAUB” (“Gold Dust”) for small ensemble (May 10th 1968).
Recorded August 20th 1972 at Stockhausen’s home in Kürten (The only time up to now that it has been performed). Duration: 53:20.
Participants: Péter Eötvös (electrochord, keisu, rin), Herbert Henck (voice, sitar, saucepan partly filled with water, 2 little bells and ship’s bell), Michael Vetter (voice, hands, recorder), Karlheinz Stockhausen (voice, conch shell, large cowbell, keisu, 14 rin, jug and bowl of water, 1 Kandy drum, ring of bells). Some instruments were used seldom or only once (Henck’s instrument and the Kandy drum).