Browse by Label: HARMONIA MUNDI (FRANCE)

Artist:	XENAKIS, IANNIS
Title:	Pleiades
Label:	HARMONIA MUNDI (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	HMA 1905185

Cheap mid-line pricing on these classic avant garde titles out of the Harmonia Mundi catalog. Pleiades is a percussion piece performed by Les Percussions de Strasbourg (vibraphones, marimbas, xylophones, etc.); richly defined, timeless music that will sound good for the rest of your life. "The whole source of this polyrhythmic composition is the idea of periodicity, repetition, duplication, faithful, pseudo-faithful, unfaithful copy... still greater variations of an even greater complexity, due to the hazards of a particular stochastic distribution, lead to total rhythm, to a massy awareness of the event, to notions of clouds, nebulas, galaxies of the fragmented dust of beats organized by the rhythm."--Xenakis.

Artist:	STOCKHAUSEN, KARLHEINZ
Title:	Aus Den Sieben Tagen
Label:	HARMONIA MUNDI (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	HMA 190795

Two sections of Stockhausen's legendary "musique intuitive" work, an obscurist set of instructions for improvisational guiding. Recorded in 1969, with Stockhausen in the control room operating filters and potentiometers, this is performed by long time electronic music ensemble members like Aloys Kontarsky (piano), Michel Portel (reeds), Johannes Fritsch (viola), Alfred Ailings (tam-tam), Rolf Gehlhaar (tam-tam), Harold Boje (electronium), Jean-Pierre Drouet (percussion) & Jean-Francois Jenny-Clark (bass).

Artist:	BERIO, LUCIANO
Title:	Laborintus 2
Label:	HARMONIA MUNDI (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	HMA 195764

Music performed by the Ensemble Musique Vivante, laying down a turbulent racket of avant-crinkle, over which the 4-piece Chorale Experimentale bellows vocal confusion. "...[Berio] has also succeeded in discovering sounds, phrasings, effects of all kinds which have permitted him to venture further and further into areas which had so far been thought impermissible or impossible for the human voice. These investigations... are magisterially reflected in the larger works and particularly in 'Laborintus II.'"

Artist:	STOCKHAUSEN, KARLHEINZ
Title:	Stimmung
Label:	HARMONIA MUNDI (FRANCE)
Format:	CD/SACD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	HMU 807408

Performed by Theatre of Voices, under the direction of Paul Hillier; recorded Sept. 2006. "With the 1968 Paris première of his 'Stimmung,' Karlheinz Stockhausen (b. 1928) exploded the very definition of vocal performance. This musical tour de force, made up of an unbroken sequence of 51 sonic models -- entirely built on the overtones of B-flat and presented in every possible voice combination -- experiments with new compositional techniques and deconstructs the mechanics of speech and song. Paul Hillier, a champion of early and contemporary vocal repertoire, leads Theatre of Voices in his newly created 'Copenhagen Version' of a 20th-century milestone that today remains as relevant as ever. Hillier's life-long relationship with 'Stimmung' began in the 1970s when he performed it as a member of Singcircle with the composer at the controls. With its serene but highly-charged aural landscape, the work is surprisingly one of Stockhausen's most accessible compositions: spiritual yet humorous, mystical yet worldly and erotic in its poetry." Hybrid CD/SACD disc that can play on any CD player, as well as SACD players.

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