Southbank goes seriously Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen is famous for his string quartets hovering in helicopters; for appearing on the cover of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Ball club Band; and for calling the attacks on the Populace Patronage Marrow "the biggest work of art on that point has e'er been".Simply it is Stockhausen the "serious, hardworking instrumentalist wHO was, right up to the day he died, producing exceedingly finely wrought music" wHO volition be the focus of a festival this autumn, according to Gillian Marianne Moore, head of coeval culture at the Southbank Centre, John Griffith Chaney.
The festival, to be curated by Joseph Oliver Knussen, the composer and director, was already in the planning with Stockhausen when the composer died, elderly 79, last Dec. Patch presenting roughly of his classic pioneering electronic works from the sixties, such as Stimmung, Trans and Mantra, it will centre on more recent epoch compositions - which are often dismissed as faintly dotty."We wanted to raid the myth that the later plant are likewise looney," said Dudley Stuart John Moore. "King Oliver and I believe that the later whole kit and boodle have something unique or so them. This can't be a nostalgia-fest."Accordingly, the fete will lay out the UK premier of his work out Zodiac. It testament likewise look at Klang, the death slice Stockhausen was working on. Klang is a cycle based on the hours of the day, and 21 of the 24 were completed.According to Knussen, "Stockhausen's reputation rests on a number of path-breaking workings from the low half of his calling. Only within the huge projects which occupied him for the repose of his spirit canful be plant similarly extraordinary and innovative compositions which birth so far to be experienced by audiences here. The Klang cycle per second represents, in my opinion, a remarkable distillation of ideas and ideals."Klang was a follow-up to Stockhausen's super-Wagnerian opera Licht: Break sieben Tage der Woche (Light: The Seven Days of the Calendar week), of which the Chopper String Quartette forms a component. The festival will give the UK premiere of share of this oscillation when it presents Luzifers Tanz (Lucifer's Terpsichore) from Samstag aus Licht (Sat from Light).The season volition "spread out the boundaries of what classical music music is, and what artists can buoy appear as parting of a classical music music series", according to George Catlett Marshall Marcus, the centre's head of serious music music. Theater and opera director Katie Mitchell will present Schubert's Winterreise interspersed with Beckett poems and performed by Mark Padmore. And the Simón Bolívolt-ampere Subject Youth Orchestra of Republic of Venezuela, under maestro Gustavo Dudamel, volition take up residence for a week. Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Suomi conductor-composer, will lead the Philharmonia Orchestra, and the John Griffith Chaney Symphony orchestra will acquaint a Tchaikovsky festival under conductor Vladimir Jurowski.Other highlights include pianist Alfred Brendel's last London concert and a series from fiddler Viktoria Mullova exploring multiple musical theater traditions.
