Stockhausen: Stimmung [Import]

Karlheinz Stockhausen (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Karlheinz Stockhausen
• Audio CD (September 10, 1992)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Hyperion UK
• ASIN: B000002ZHD
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #68,207 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Stimmung: Model 1 - Warming Up, Leading to Model 1

2. Stimmung: Model 2 - 'Gott nochmal' - GROGORAGALLY

3. Stimmung: Model 3 - 'Vishnu' - ELYON

4. Stimmung: Model 4 - USI-AFU

5. Stimmung: Model 5 - 'Saturday' - CHANG-TI

6. Stimmung: Model 6

7. Stimmung: Model 7 - 'Hallelujah'

8. Stimmung: Model 8 - UEUETEOTL

9. Stimmung: Model 9 - 'Phoenix' - USI-NENO

10. Stimmung: Model 10 - 'Komit' (Like Screech Owls)

11. Stimmung: Model 11 - 'moo,' 'moo-coo' (Like Cows), 'Guru' (A Dove) - AHURA-MAZDA

12. Stimmung: Model 12 - 'My Hands Are Two Bells Ding Dong...'

13. Stimmung: Model 13 - ABASSI-ABUMO

14. Stimmung: Model 14 - 'Hippy' - CHALCHIHUITLICUE

15. Stimmung: Model 15 - WAKANTANKA

16. Stimmung: Model 16

17. Stimmung: Model 17 - 'The male is basically an anymale'

18. Stimmung: Model 18

19. Stimmung: Model 19 - 'Sunday' - DIONYSOS

20. Stimmung: Model 20 - roundandaroundingfivefingersincurlymoonhair...

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Customer Reviews

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A truly 'New Age' work, April 5, 2000

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DAC Crowell - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stockhausen: Stimmung (Audio CD)

This is an astounding work by one of the true masters of the post-WWII avant-garde. Stockhausen often worked with massive (and complex) forces, but here, all we find are six unadorned voices, gradually chanting their way through a litany of sacred names, erotic verse, meditative intonations, all utilizing only the harmonics of a single root B-flat tone that can be produced by the human voice. There are many people that think that washing synths, twiddly melodies, and overdubbed whales makes for 'New Age'...but "Stimmung" really sounds like some mysterious, just-beyond-comprehension ceremony from some time not yet reached. Singcircle's performance here is perhaps the best I've heard, also, with very exacting (and rigorous) performance capabilities in evidence. And having some familiarity myself with how overtone singing works, I can say that the effort which the ensemble makes here is truly leviathan, monumental, and all the more astounding for its accomplishment!

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, but..., October 9, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Stockhausen: Stimmung (Audio CD)

The singers are all top-class, and the recording technique superb, but I still prefer the older recordings with the Collegium Vocale Köln (2 versions in Stockhausen-Edition CD12), who premiered "Stimmung" in the late 1960's. The reason is that the Collegium Vocale singers seemed to have a very good time when singing and the piece progresses spontaneously (note that in this piece the singers have to make decisions almost all the time during each performance). On the other side, the Singcircle singers seem to be always very, very concentrated, but they take the music too seriously, and even the funny interludes when "erotic" verses by Stockhausen are recited are performed as if they were written for the Church. If you really like this music you should have both recordings.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Karlheinz Stockhausen: Ave Atque Vale, December 8, 2007

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Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stockhausen: Stimmung (Audio CD)

Karlheinz Stockhausen, one of the more experimental geniuses of contemporary music has died, and though he was highly regarded in his lifetime for his 'invention' of electronic music and pushing the barriers of aural experimentation to limits beyond the imagination of most other composers, his legacy is yet to be fully appreciated.

For the novice whose musical experience has not encountered Stockhausen, this DC of the STIMMUNG as performed by the Singcircle is likely as simple a beginning as any. Rather than being composed for his unique combination of 'instruments', this fascinating work was composed for the human voice in response to ancient concepts and images and ideas - part of the mystical mind of the master composer. This is music for the soul and the imagination and does not demand anything more from the listener than release of physical constraints to open the mind to the planes of experience unknown to many of us until Karlheinz Stockhausen opened the windows. A beautiful recording and an appropriate requiem for a true genius. Grady Harp, December 07