Karlheinz Stockhausen - Stimmung, Paris Version (1969 & 1982)
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Stimmung, Paris Version (1969 & 1982)
Avant-garde | FLAC, 16 bit, 44.1 KHz | Vinyl transfer | Stereo
Recording 1: 1969 | Deutsche Grammophon, 2561 043
Recording 2: 1982 | Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, DMR 1019
96 dpi scans | 482 MB | Filepost | 2 CD | 72:23 & 60:57
Avant-garde | FLAC, 16 bit, 44.1 KHz | Vinyl transfer | Stereo
Recording 1: 1969 | Deutsche Grammophon, 2561 043
Recording 2: 1982 | Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, DMR 1019
96 dpi scans | 482 MB | Filepost | 2 CD | 72:23 & 60:57
Recording 1
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Stimmung, Paris Version (1969 & 1982)
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Stimmung, Paris Version (1969 & 1982)
Collegium Vocale Köln
Dagmar Apel, soprano
Gaby Rodens, soprano
Helga Albrecht, mezzo-soprano
Wolfgang Fromme, tenor
Georg Steinhoff, baritone
Hans-Alderich Billig, bass
Direction: Wolfgang Fromme
Sound direction: Karlheinz Stockhausen
Recording: Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, 1969
Deutsche Grammophon, 2561 043
Dagmar Apel, soprano
Gaby Rodens, soprano
Helga Albrecht, mezzo-soprano
Wolfgang Fromme, tenor
Georg Steinhoff, baritone
Hans-Alderich Billig, bass
Direction: Wolfgang Fromme
Sound direction: Karlheinz Stockhausen
Recording: Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, 1969
Deutsche Grammophon, 2561 043
Recording 2
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Stimmung, Paris Version (1969 & 1982)
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Stimmung, Paris Version (1969 & 1982)
Collegium Vocale Köln
Dagmar von Biel, soprano I
Gaby Ortmann-Rodens, soprano II
Helga Hamm-Albrecht, alto
Wolfgang Fromme, tenor I
Helmuth Clemens, tenor II
Hans Alderich Billig, bass
Karlheinz Stockhausen: sound direction and mixing
Recording: Westdeutschen Rundfunks, 1982
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, DMR 1019
Dagmar von Biel, soprano I
Gaby Ortmann-Rodens, soprano II
Helga Hamm-Albrecht, alto
Wolfgang Fromme, tenor I
Helmuth Clemens, tenor II
Hans Alderich Billig, bass
Karlheinz Stockhausen: sound direction and mixing
Recording: Westdeutschen Rundfunks, 1982
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, DMR 1019
The motivation to compose Stimmung was a commission of the city of Cologne for the vocal ensemble Collegium Vocale of the Rheinische Musikschule. Stockhausen wrote the work during cold winter months of February and March of 1968, at which time he was living in a rented house on Long Island Sound in Madison, Connecticut with his wife and two children. Previously he had spent some time in Mexico where he had been influenced by his experiences at the ancient temples of the Mexican plains. In conversations with Jonathan Cott, Stockhhausen stresses the importance of this visit in the creation of Stimmung:Infinite thanks to Wolf Fifth for this splendid contribution.
"What was important for the creation of Stimmung was the fact that I’d just come back from Mexico where I’d spent a month walking through the ruins, visiting Oaxaca, Merida, and Chichenitza, and becoming a Maya, a Toltec, a Zatopec, an Aztec, or a Spaniard- I became the people. The magic names of the Aztec gods are spoken in Stimmung….And then the space. I sat for hours on the same stone, watching the proportions of certain Mayan temples with their three wings, watching how they were slightly out of phase. I relived ceremonies, which were sometimes very cruel. The religious cruelty isn’t in Stimmung, only the sounds, the whole general feeling of the Mexican plains with their edifices going into the sky- the quietness, on the one side and the sudden changes, on the other".
Rory Braddell
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~braddellr/stock/index.htm
To preserve the original continuity of the recording, I joined the two sides of each vinyl with GoldWave v5.69, using FLAC maximum, 16 bit, stereo.
These two recordings correspond to CD 12A and 12B released by the Stockhausen-Verlag with this cover:
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Stimmung, Paris Version (1969 & 1982)
