Monday, 7 January 2008

TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2007 - Paul Hillier & Theatre of Voices - Stockhausen: Stimmung


Harmonia Mundi / 186431


"Stimmung is one of the masterpieces of the last half century... in essence it is a vast elaboration of a single six-note chord based on the overtones of the note B flat, it never seems to stale in performance, partly because of the extraordinary variety of rhythm, attack and colour that Stockhausen generates within the 51 "models" into which he divides the 70-minute piece....
This is only the third commercial recording of Stimmung.. which places the voices (three female, three male) in a more spacious acoustic than before, far closer to what you experience when Stimmung is performed live, and lending even more enchantment to this extraordinary work."
The Guardian.

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