Cosmic Pulses to Mullova - all here for Nout

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 18 July
10pm - New Music Show
Tom Service presents music ranging from the sound of a single clarinet to the combination of modern symphony and electronics as heard at last October's Donaueschingen Music Days in Germany. Tom visits the night in 2008 when Karlheinz Stockhausen's Cosmic Pulses left the audience bewildered*.

*Bombed out of their skulls, more like!

Rory Boyle - Burble for solo clarinet

Baptiste Chatel - Quatre

Giles Swayne - Les poissons mélomanes (Chansons dévotes et poissoneuses)

Michael Pelzel - Mysterious Benares Bells (first performance)

Gérard Grisey - Nout

11pm - Proms Premieres

Stockhausen - Cosmic Pulses

Misha-Mullov-Abbado - The Linden Tree

Billy Strayhorn/Duke Ellington, arr. Buls - Chelsea Bridge

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l28h

[Richard Barrett]

the night in 2008 when Karlheinz Stockhausen's Cosmic Pulses left the audience bewildered*[/I].

*Bombed out of their skulls, more like!

Not in my case, I can assure you. I was as usual bewildered as to why the RAH is ever used as a music venue though.

[Quarky]

This programme a mixed bag, fine by me (attempting to ignore TS's loquaciousness).

If it didn't have Stockhausen's name attached, would Cosmic Pulses have stood out from the crowd? Not IMHO.

The Clarinet virtuosic piece. Again IMHO, you can have too much of a good thing.....

The stand out item for me was Chelsea Bridge / Strayhorn. First time I really appreciated that composition.