Karlheinz Stockhausen - Helikopter Streichquartett (Arditti String Quartet Edition 35)
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Helikopter Streichquartett (Arditti String Quartet Edition 35)
Classical | EAC (APE & CUE) | 190 MB
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Classical | EAC (APE & CUE) | 190 MB
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Stockhausen is widely acknowledged as perhaps the European avant garde’s principal and most dignified figures, yet whose oeuvre is without question notoriously outré. The Helicopter Quartet is the realization of a dream that Stockhausen had in 1991, in which he saw and heard four helicopters, each bearing a string player. As the helicopters circled overhead, the four separated musicians made music with each other, while on the ground an audience listened to the resulting music through loudspeakers and watched the performers on television screens. Apart from the absurdity of this concept, Arditti String Quartet, for whom it was written and first commissioned in 1994, gives a strikingly vivid performance on this CD.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Helicopter String Quartet (31:51)
Arditti String Quartet:
Irvine Arditti, Violin
David Alberman, Violin
Garth Knox, Viola
Rohan de Saram, Cello
Recorded/Released: 1996/2003
Montaign: MO 782097
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Helikopter Streichquartett (Arditti String Quartet Edition 35)
(New Links 09/22/2010)
Part 1
Part 2
(3% recovery record included)
Link to the DVD (courtesy of d'Avignon): Karlheinz Stockhausen - Helicopter String Quartet (Medici Arts, 2008)