Stockhausen: Mantra Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Jean-François Heisser, Serge Lemouton

• Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928 - 2007): Mantra:
• 1 Mantra: 1. introduction et formule 01:17
• 2 Mantra: 2. répétition régulière 03:14
• 3 Mantra: 3. accent à la fin 03:24
• 4 Mantra: 4. son « normal » 05:05
• 5 Mantra: 5. gruppetto autour d'une note centrale 06:30
• 6 Mantra: 6. trémolo 06:01
• 7 Mantra: 7. accord marqué 10:17
• 8 Mantra: 8. accent au début 02:59
• 9 Mantra: 9. liaison chromatique 06:24
• 10 Mantra: 10. staccato 02:59
• 11 Mantra: 11. répétition irrégulière « morse » 02:03
• 12 Mantra: 12. trille 05:04
• 13 Mantra: 13. sforzando (fortepiano) 03:51
• 14 Mantra: 14. lien en arpège 04:38
• 15 Mantra: 15. coda - reprise de la formule 04:20
• Total Runtime 01:08:06

Info for Stockhausen: Mantra

“I was sitting next to the driver, and I just let my imagination completely loose… I was humming to myself… I heard this melody – it all came very quickly together: I had the idea of one single musical figure or formula that would be expanded over a very long period of time..." (Karlheinz Stockhausen)

Composed in 1970, Stockhausen's "Mantra" is a duet for piano written for the Donaueschingen Festival. It is Stockhausen's first completely scored piece after a long string of largely improvised compositions. Here both pianists play ring-modulated pianos, cymbals, and a wood block. One player is also controlling a recording of Morse code. The purpose of this composition was to explore the idea of a musical "mantra". The repetition of sounds are intended to place both the audience and the musicians themselves into an altered state of consciousness, thus changing the concert performance into an interactive event where the composer and listener are equals

Jean-Francois Heisser, Klavier
Jean-Frederic Neuburger, Klavier
Serge Lemouton, Electronics

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