Allegro Largo Scherzo Finale

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Havona
Christian Wolz: Atropa-Bella-Donna

The world will never, unfortunately, receive a full performance of Stockhausen’s Klang; Stockhausen had completed 21 of the 24 component works when he died in 2007; Havona one of the last of these, and did not receive a performance until the beginning of the year. Nicholas Isherwood is well-known [...]

De profundis
Malaguena
Lorelei
The Suicide
On Watch
Madam, look!
At the Sante Jail
Zaporozhye Cossacks’ Reply to the Sultan of Constantinople
O Delvig, Delvig!
The Poet’s Death
Conclusion

More than a little ironically, I’m starting this blog by talking about a a symphony that is probably as far away from a traditional symphony as [...]