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INTERVIEWS & DOCUMENTARIES
Clip from a BBC documentary, aired after his death in 2007.
Excerpt from Medici Arts DVD of Stockhausen discussing his Helicopter
String Quartet, written around the same time as Orchester-Finalisten
and
Lucifers Tanz. (Film by Frank
Scheffer).
Excerpt from Karlheinz Stockausen's May 1972 lecture to the Oxford Union
entitled Four Criteria of Electronic Music. He discusses layering of sounds
electronically, a technique the composer
used in Gesang der Junglinge.
A segment of Kontakte, an electronic masterpiece that moves from tone to
pulsating noise, written just after he completed Gesang der Junglinge.
Clip from BBC2's The Culture Show in 2005, discussing Gruppen, written in
the same period as Gesang der Junglinge and the LICHT
cycle (of which
Lucifers Tanz, Michaels-Gruss
and Michaels-Abschied are all part). There
is a
short, amusing interview with
Stockhausen at the end of the segment.
Telegraph TV's Culture Minute covers Southbank Centre's Stockhausen festival.
PERFORMANCES
KLANG - 2nd Hour: Freude (Joy), in a 2006
performance
by Marianne Smit
and Esther Kooi, the harpists performing
this work in the festival.
Part 1 of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's 1998 performance
of Gruppen, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, John Carewe and Daniel
Harding. Hear Gesang der Junglinge, composed in the same
period
as
Gruppen, performed in the festival. Parts two and three follow.
Part two.
Part three.
Austrian Ensemble for Contemporary Music performing the Helicopter
String Quartet in the 2003 Salzburg Festival. The work forms part of the
LICHT cycle, of which Lucifers Tanz, Michaels-Gruss
and
Michaels-Abschied are all part.
EXPLORATIONS
Artist Duncan Chapman worked with Year 5 pupils from Heathbrook
Primary School in Lambeth, London and with students from the Royal
Academy of Music to create new music inspired by Stockhausen's
Mikrophonie I in October 2008 as part
of our Stockhausen festival.
