lamberto coccioli. » Karlheinz Stockhausen http://www.lambertococcioli.com on music and beauty Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:14:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Mixtur by Stockhausen at the South Bank http://www.lambertococcioli.com/mixtur-by-stockhausen-in-london/ http://www.lambertococcioli.com/mixtur-by-stockhausen-in-london/#comments Mon, 24 Apr 2006 20:11:00 +0000 lamberto coccioli http://www.lambertococcioli.com/24/04/2006/mixtur-by-stockhausen-at-the-south-bank/ Down to London to listen to Mixtur and say hello to Thierry Coduys, responsible for the electronics together with Sound Intermedia (Ian Dearden and David Sheppard).

Mixtur is the daddy of live electronics… a late discovery for me. Some awkward moments (a funny trombone glissando up and down a perfect fourth that comes from nowhere, the long pauses) but beautiful complex timbres especially in the lowest register for cello, double bass and contra-bassoon. Conceptually it was fantastic in 1967, and it still retains some of that aura, although the music has aged. And the performance with the reversed order of the sections, thankfully played in the first half of the concert, just doesn’t work.

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