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 [...]

Chris Gendall: Wax Lyrical
Jeff Henderson: UnCage my HeArt
Salvatore Sciarrino: Quaderno di Strada

Stroma’s second concert of the year could scarcely have felt different to the first. The uniquely lyrical modernism of Jenny McLeod, David Downes’ ferocious rhythmic onslaught and Michael Norris’ fierce technicality were replaced  by music of pure aggression, at least for [...]