Stockhausen: Aus den sieben Tagen [Import]

Karlheinz Stockhausen (Composer), Diego Masson (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Diego Masson
• Composer: Karlheinz Stockhausen
• Audio CD (June 30, 1992)
• SPARS Code: ADD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
• ASIN: B000027O1W
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #334,733 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I almost did not buy this!!, July 8, 2009

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Speedy (Fl, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stockhausen: Aus den sieben Tagen (Audio CD)

I had seen this album in the infamous 'Nurse with wounds list' where i have found TONS of spectacular, creative music. After searching this was the only version that could be bought (which i am almost certain is the one on the NWW list) on cd. Before pushing the 'buy it' button i started reading some reviews and some said that this is not the best interpretation of this work. I am glad i ended up buying it anyways. After listening, all i can tell you is that 1) this music is a mind trip! excellent free form music yet somehow controlled, 2) when you have players of the caliber of Michel Portal, Jean Francois Jenny-Clark and Jean-Pierre Drouet in the band YOU KNOW the pieces are going to fly as these are some of the best players in european avant garde jazz at the time (these are 1969 recordings), and 3) Stockhausen is there in the recording booth doing his thing with filters and oscillators and obviously approved this baby.

I loved this version of 'Aus den sieben Tagen. Maybe you will too.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly Bizarre But Inexplicably Attractive, September 10, 1998

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Shannon W. Mack ([e-mail]) (Los Alamitos, California) - See all my reviews

I couldn't tell you why I like this recording. It opens with all kinds of screeching from the saxophone that sounds worse than some of John Coltrane's later experiments. The piece reminds of Feldman (in his middle stages) in a bad mood and on some kind of hallucinogenic drug. Try it if you have a lot of interest in this composer but this one is not for the beginner.

10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An Imperfect Realization, August 28, 2002

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Christopher Forbes "weirdears" (Brooklyn,, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stockhausen: Aus den sieben Tagen (Audio CD)

I must admit, the idea of "intuitive music" really intrigues me. I've read parts of the score to this piece and am interested in it's general attitude toward controlling improvisation, but am not sure how controlled the results truly are, (nor how truly interested Stockhausen is in that control). As such it would be most instructive to have multiple versions of this work available for comparison, because this one leaves me a little cold.

Arguments below have centered on the nature of the improvisation in this work. I would have to agree that on the whole, I'd rather hear a seasoned group of avant-gard jazz musicians play this piece, rather than the ensemble recorded hear. They don't seems to have the ears needed to play this piece well. There are alot of interesting sounds on the album, but it adds up to less than the sumof it's parts. On the other hand, this in no way resembles late Coltrane or other out jazz players, and it is wrong to confuse them. Stockhausen was certainly influenced by those players, and by the acid rock movement. And those movements were influenced by Stockhausen. But the fundemental interests are different. Avant-garde jazz is at it's core interested in recovering an almost shamanist spirituality...and as such has much more in common with traditional musics of Africa. This work is much more static, more Eastern in a way. And yet definately part of the composer's Darmstadt outlook.

So, in conclusion, it's an interesting release, and I'd certainly like to hear more of the piece. But I don't return to it very much. Seems to lack focus.