Performances from 1971 to 1997, featuring Tristan Fry in Zyklus, Harald Bojé and others in pieces for short-wave radios and electric instruments, and the composer's son Markus in the trumpet cycles In Freundschaft.
2 CD set with over two hours of mind wasting machine from the last decades. Includes Front 242, DAF, Die Krupps, Nitzer Ebb and many more.
The browser noticing this disc might be forgiven for thinking that the current trend toward recording obscure works of the classical period had gone too far. Not only does it present a work by Franz Xaver Süssmayr, otherwise known almost exclusively as the man who completed Mozart's Requiem under sleazy circumstances after the composer's death – it also offers that work in an arrangement for winds by an even more obscure composer, Johann Nepomuk Wendt. But give it a spin (or a click): it's not without interest for those with a deep interest in Mozart, especially in the opera The Magic Flute. Süssmayr's opera Der Spiegel von Arkadien (The Mirror of Arcadia) was his biggest success during his own lifetime.
Since 1991, a complete edition of all recordings in which Karlheinz Stockhausen has personally participated is being released on compact discs. Each CD in this series is identified by Stockhausen's signature followed by an encircled number. The numbers indicate the general historical order of the works. Stockhausen realised the electronic music and participated in these recordings as conductor, performer, sound projectionist, and musical director. He personally mixed down the recordings, mastered them for CDs, wrote the texts and drew the covers.
Since 1991, a complete edition of all recordings in which Karlheinz Stockhausen has personally participated is being released on compact discs. Each CD in this series is identified by Stockhausen's signature followed by an encircled number. The numbers indicate the general historical order of the works. Stockhausen realised the electronic music and participated in these recordings as conductor, performer, sound projectionist, and musical director. He personally mixed down the recordings, mastered them for CDs, wrote the texts and drew the covers.
Performers: Tristan Fry (Percussion), Harald Bojé (Wood Block), Peter Eötvös (Electric Piano, Bamboo Flute; Synthesizer; Reed Pipe; Zither; Wood Block), Christoph Caskel (Percussion), Markus Stockhausen (trumpet) & Margareta Hurholz (Organ)