Since his untimely death last year, several new pieces by Karlheinz Stockhausen have been premiered posthumously. Yesterday night, the newest of these premieres was given in the Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal at the WDR in Cologne. The composition is part of the larger cycle KLANG which was to contain 24 pieces for each hour of the day. “Balance” is the piece for the seventh hour of the day.
[audio:Stockhausen%20-%20Balance%20aus%20KLANG%20-%20Part%201.mp3|titles=Karlheinz Stockhausen: 7. Stunde aus KLANG: Balance, 1st part|artists=bläsertrio recherche]KLANG – 7. STUNDE: BALANCE (2007) für Bassklarinette, Englischhorn, Flöte (World Premiere)
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This excerpt features the first section of the 30 minute piece.
Who were the performers? Was the piece performed by memory? I tried to find more information on http://www.stockhausen80.de/ but they don’t give the names of the performers.
I couldn’t find their names either, so I went back to my recording and tried to understand what the presenter said. I can’t guarantee for the spelling, but here is what I understood:
Martin Fahlenbock, flute
Jaime Gonzalez, oboe
Shizuyo Oka, bass clarinet
What do you think about the music and their performance?
This is a trio freom ensemble recherche. They will perform it again tomorrow at the ULTIMA Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
Thank you, Beate, for posting this information. I will put it on the fornt page.
Matthias
Hi, this is a great opening 8 minutes of ‘Balance’ from Klang.
Is anybody perhaps in a position to post the entire work somewhere ?
many thanks, Mark
The whole of Stockhausen’s Balance can be downloaded here. It’s free to create a login name and the MP3 file should be available for another 6 days. Mark
https://www.yousendit.com/download/bVlBNHA1Qk45RlkwTVE9PQ>
Plus a KhS photo I hadn’t seen before.
Apparently photos were banned at the ceremony, so somebody might have taken it secretly:
http://www.daylife.com/photo/0eZx3jY9f41vm
Hello
could someone post the whole version on the website again?
Dear Mark Stratford
could you please send me the complete Balance piece ?
thank you
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Beautiful!