Nicholas Isherwood & Christian Wolz – 11 September 2009

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 [...]

Shostakovich – Symphony No. 14

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 [...]