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Karlheinz Stockhausen

April 2024

  • Peter Eötvös rehearsing with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Cologne, 2017.

    Peter Eötvös obituary

    Hungarian conductor of modernist music who went on to compose operas with texts ranging from Three Sisters to Angels in America

February 2024

  • Damo Suzuki in Dusseldorf, Germany, 2020. He was unsentimental about leaving Can in 1973, and said: ‘I’m not interested in hanging on to the past.’

    Damo Suzuki obituary

    Singer whose idiosyncratic performances helped the German band Can stretch the limits of experimental rock

December 2023

  • FILE - Britain's King Charles III waves during his visit to the Discovery Centre and Auld School Close to hear more about the 3.3million pound (4.1 million US dollars) energy efficient housing project in the area, in Tomintoul, Scotland, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. Buckingham Palace announced Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, that King Charles III will travel to Kenya later this month for a state visit full of symbolism: His mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, learned she had become queen while visiting a game preserve in the East African nation in 1952. (Jane Barlow/Pool Photo via AP, File)

    Brief letters
    The King Charles effect on school attendance

    Letters: Royal portraits | Viagra article | Losing sucks | Karlheinz Stockhausen | Hum improvement | Appalling apostrophes

July 2022

  • ‘Acoustic theology’ … conductor and composer Mauricio Kagel in 2000.

    Stockhausen: Carré/Kagel: Chorbuch review – thrillingly original rarities

    A rare recording of the German composer’s early work is paired with Mauricio Kagel’s compelling exploration of Bach chorales

October 2021

  • Paul at home in England, 1980

    Ken Dodd, Stockhausen and Psycho: unlocking Paul McCartney’s musical genius

    When I was asked to collaborate with the former Beatle on a book, I gained a unique insight into the creative process behind the band’s biggest hits, writes Pulitzer-prize winning poet Paul Muldoon

July 2021

  • Frederic Rzewski in 1998.

    Frederic Rzewski obituary

    Composer-pianist whose political commitment found flamboyant expression in his variations on a Chilean resistance anthem

June 2021

  • Alexis Petridis

    Jon Hassell: radical musician who studied with Stockhausen and worked with Eno

    Alexis Petridis
    The influential experimental US composer ‘celebrated and dignified’ his ‘fourth world’ sources and contributed to albums by Brian Eno and Talking Heads
  • Peter Zinovieff pictured in 2015.

    Peter Zinovieff, British composer and synth pioneer, dies aged 88

    The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Kraftwerk all used Zinovieff’s EMS synthesisers
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen, 1967.

    From the Guardian archive
    The pioneers of electronic music – archive, 1957

    5 June 1957 Arthur Jacobs meets Karlheinz Stockhausen and other modern composers who build their compositions from pure sounds electronically prefabricated

November 2019

  • George Barton (left) and Siwan Rhys - press image 2019 - dsc 5793b

    Stockhausen: Kontakte review – the work emerges with startling immediacy

    George Barton/Siwan Rhys
    (All That Dust, download only)
    Percussionist Barton and pianist Rhys’s binaural recording adds another dimension to Stockhausen’s textures and reveal his musical thinking

May 2019

  • Karlheinz Stockhausen’s epic opera, Donnerstag aus Licht, has its first UK performances in 34 years at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday (21 &amp; 22 May)<br>Jamil Attar (Lucifer) and Emmanuelle Grach (Michael) in Stockhausen’s Donnerstag Aus Licht @ Royal Festival Hall. Conductor, Maxime Pascal. Part of Stockhausen: Cosmic Prophet. Le Balcon joins forces with London Sinfonietta, the New London Chamber Choir and musicians from the Royal Academy of Music. (Opening-21-05-19)

    Donnerstag aus Licht review – ambitious Stockhausen staging realigns cosmic order

    Symbolism, stagecraft and tap-dancing trombones combine in Le Balcon’s impressive production of “Thursday”, the first in Stockhausen’s epic opera cycle
  • Hubert Mayer and Iris Zerdoud perform Stockhausen’s epic opera Donnerstag aus Licht.

    Stockhausen: the composer who makes Wagner look anaemic

    His ego knew no bounds … but nor did his operas that feature camels, helicopters and giant pencil sharpeners. As his epic Donnerstag aus Licht comes to the UK for the first time in 34 years, we separate the cult from the culture of Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Mischievous soundscapes … Actress performing at Royal Festival Hall, London.

    Actress x Stockhausen Sin (x) II review – transcendent AI-driven opera

    DJ and producer Actress strays even further from the dancefloor as he takes on Stockhausen’s famously over the top Mittwoch by sampling Westminster debates

August 2018

  • Sabine Liebner - by Rupert Karbacher

    Stockhausen: Klavierstücke I to XI CD review - Liebner makes light work of piano cycle's challenges

    The German new music specialist brings the worlds of the American and European avant garde very close together indeed in this impressive recording

July 2018

  • Mass of noise … Simon Rattle, Matthias Pintscher and Duncan Ward conduct the London Symphony Orchestra in three groups around the hall.

    Gruppen review – LSO's artful three-way split enthrals Turbine Hall

    It was concert as surround-sound art installation: Simon Rattle triumphantly filled Tate’s giant gallery space with the ringing beauty of Stockhausen’s three-orchestra spectacle

May 2018

  • Irmin Schmidt in 2018

    'I grew up in total ruins': Irmin Schmidt of Can on LSD, mourning and musical adventures

    The last founding member of the visionary German band left alive, the 81-year-old recalls how he rejected his Nazi father to find freedom in music

November 2017

  • Performance of Stockhausen's Stimmung in the Barbican Hall on Monday, 20 Nov. 2017. Photo by Mark Allan

    Stimmung review – Singcircle take us back to Stockhausen's future

    A rare performance of Stockhausen’s legendary Stimmung, replete with terrible erotic poems, recaptured the spirit that inspired a generation

May 2016

  • Vanessa Benelli Mosell

    Scriabin, Stockhausen: Light CD review – dazzling technique

  • Author Alex Ross has won numerous awards including the Guardian First Book Award in 2008 for The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century.

    Reading list
    The shock of the new: how classical music turned atonal

February 2016

  • Hungarian-born Austrian composer György Ligeti, circa 1975.

    From the Guardian archive
    György Ligeti: 'I always imagine music visually, in many different colours'

    7 May 1974: In a rare interview, Ligeti talks to the Guardian’s Christopher Ford about composition and the use of his music in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
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