Karlheinz Stockhausen

Lichter-Wasser (Lights-Waters, also called Sonntags-Gruss, Sunday Greeting) is the first scene of Sonntag aus Licht (Sunday from Light), the last of the seven operas of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Licht cycle to be composed. Stockhausen wrote it in 1998 and 1999 for soprano, tenor and an orchestra with a synthesizer. The Südwestrundfunk commissioned it for the Donaueschingen Music Days, where it was first played on 16 October 1999 in the Baar Gymnasium.

The music lasts 50 minutes and 35 seconds, not counting the silence at the end, and is one movement that the disc divides into 31 tracks. The track list shows the plan of the piece. A short initial duet opens it and a final duet closes it, with an entrance and an exit between. Inside this frame come twelve waves of Michael and twelve of Eve, written as M-Welle and E-Welle, which alternate and overlap. There are also six short bridges and three announcements, which interrupt the flow at bars 448, 484 and 517. The track names give the bar number of each section. The singers are Barbara van den Boom and Hubert Mayer, accompanied by members of the SWR Symphony Orchestra of Baden-Baden and Freiburg and the synthesizer player Antonio Pérez Abellán.

This is Stockhausen-Verlag, Stockhausen Edition no. 58, one CD issued in 2000.