| | Stop/Ylem - Karlheinz Stockhausen - Song Listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Performed with incomparable brilliance by the Sinfonietta under the watchful eye and baton of the composer, "Stop" is, at one and the same time, uncompromisingly experimental in its aesthetic and viscerally engaging. |
 | | "Ylem", which dates from 1972, is what happened when the composer broke through to the other side of the wall by abandoning traditional notation in favour of "intuitive", even "telepathic" (i.e. |
 | | Conceived as a musical and theatrical metaphor for the expanding and contracting of the universe (no less!), the piece starts out with all 19 instrumentalists clustered around the piano for an opening "big bang" which sends them out individually into and beyond the concert hall. |
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