Karlheinz StockhausenFeaturing: Steven Schick, James Avery
Complete Early Percussion Works (2CD)
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Stockhausen’s early percussion music is among the most visionary of the percussion repertoire. This unique collection features some works which are almost impossible to find elsewhere. Zyklus was not only a novel composition in terms of its treatment of time and structure, it was also the first percussion solo ever performed. Kontakte, a masterpiece for piano and percussion with 4-channel tape, challenges to performers to play together and to make the maximum number of “contacts” with the tape. Schick and Avery have performed this work together for decades, and this recording shows that experience to full effect. Mode’s new transfers from the analog tapes for this recording reveal greater detail and low end frequency response.
Mikrophonie calls for six percussionists playing a single instrument, a giant 60" tam-tam. Three musicians activate the instrument from either side. One player performs on the tam-tam using a large array of mallets and small objects, a second holds a highly directional microphone and also plays the tam-tam, and the third is a sound designer who sits in the hall and regulates settings for volume, filtration and spatial diffusion of the sounds. The result is an extraordinary and theatrical sound world. In Refrain, the three performers produce an array of pure tones from their primary instruments to noisy shouted syllables and tongue clicks. In the most complex passages, the sounds merge nearly completely. Schlagtrio is one of Stockhausen’s earliest published pieces. Rather than articulating the differences between piano and percussion, he is interested in creating a continuum between the two.
Format
For James Avery (1936-2009)
Dates of composition and track note:
1. Refrain (1959)
2. Schlagtrio (1952, revised 1973)
3. Kontakte (1958-60) new high-resolution transfer from the analog 4-channel tapes
4. Zyklus (1959)
5. Mikrophonie (1964)
Recordings: Theater A, University of California, San Diego on 21-22 May 2008 (Mikrophonie, Zyklus); 2-4 October 2008 (Schlagtrio, Kontakte, Refrain)
Photos: © Philippe Gontier (cover), and stills from the videos
Liner Notes: © Steve Schick & Brian Brandt
Program notes by / Deutscher Text von / Text en français par Steven Schick & Brian Brandt enclosed / liegt bei / inclus
℗ © 2014 mode records. Made & Printed in USA
48/24-bit Hi-definition [Logo]
Also available on surround-sound DVD
On spine:
Stockhausen: Complete Early Percussion Works
Avery, red fish blue fish, Schick
On CD1:
Stockhausen
Refrain Schlagtrio Kontakte
Steven Schick • James Avery • red fish blue fish
On CD2:
Stockhausen
Zyklus Mikrophonie
Steven Schick • red fish blue fish
On back:
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007)
Complete Early Percussion Works
Steven Schick, percussion & director
Released in slim double jewel case. Includes 28 pp. booklet with liner notes in English, German, and French.
Release notes
For James Avery (1936-2009) Dates of composition and track note: 1. Refrain (1959) 2. Schlagtrio (1952, revised 1973) 3. Kontakte (1958-60) new high-resolution transfer from the analog 4-channel tapes 4. Zyklus (1959) 5. Mikrophonie (1964) Recordings: Theater A, University of California, San Diego on 21-22 May 2008 (Mikrophonie, Zyklus); 2-4 October 2008 (Schlagtrio, Kontakte, Refrain) Photos: © Philippe Gontier (cover), and stills from the videos Liner Notes: © Steve Schick & Brian Brandt …
| 1-1 | Refrain | 10:15 | |
| 1-2 | Schlagtrio (For Piano & 2 Timpanists) | 16:08 | |
| 1-3 | Kontakte (For Piano, Percussion & 4-channel Tape) | 35:00 | |
| 2-1 | Zyklus (For A Percussionist) | 10:30 | |
| 2-2 | Mikrophonie (For Tamtam, 2 Microphones, 2 Filters, And Controllers) | 31:34 |
- Brian Brandt
- Art Direction, Liner Notes [Program Notes], Mixed By [Mixing], Producer
- Joe Kucera
- Edited By, Engineer [Engineered By], Mixed By [Mixing]
- Michael Hynes
- Edited By, Producer
- Jean-Jacques Rognant
- Liner Notes [French Translation]
- Jovita Zähl
- Liner Notes [French Translation]
- Sabine Feisst
- Liner Notes [German Translation]
- Steven Schick
- Liner Notes [Program Notes]
- Steve Puntolillo
- Mastered By [24-bit Stereo Mastering]
