György Ligeti / Karlheinz Stockhausen / Pierre Boulez

Karlheinz Stockhausen/György Ligeti

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Karlheinz Stockhausen
Kreuzspiel
Kontra-Punkte
Fünf weitere Sternzeichen, French creation
György Ligeti
Concerto de chambre
Aventures et Nouvelles Aventures
Claron McFadden, soprano
Hilary Summers, contralto
Georg Nigl, baritone
Ensemble intercontemporain
Pierre Boulez, direction 
Coproduction Salle Pleyel ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the support of Adami
Concert recorded by France Musique

Pierre Boulez, a committed advocate of both Stockhausen and Ligeti, saw the fascination in Ligeti’s phonetic writing in 1962 with Aventures;  he recognized the challenge Stockhausen made to the linear lay-out of a score with Kreuzspeil and Kontra-Punkte, and will now conduct Stockhausen’s final opus [Five More Star Signs]. 
 

See also

Cité de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris
octoberoct 26

Karlheinz Stockhausen
Donnerstag aus Licht – Acte 3

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Donnerstag (Thursday), the first opera of the Licht (Light) cycle, to which Karlheinz Stockhausen devoted twenty-five years of his life, is the day of Archangel Michael, his youth, journey around the earth and his return. It is also an autobiographical moment in time, overwhelmingly so, in a spiral that leads to the stars and the harmony of the universe.