Stockhausen: Mantra

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The playing cuts through with knockout physicality; the sense that you are being shown multiple sides of an object that is perpetually evolving, spinning in and out of control, is secure. — Gramophone Magazine, May 2015 More…

Release Date: 9th Feb 2015
Catalogue No: HATNOWART190
Label: hat
Series: hat[now]ART
Length: 68 minutes

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Stockhausen: Mantra (1970)

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Newton Armstrong, Roderick Chadwick, Mark Knoop

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"The composition of 'Mantra' was a turning point for Stockhausen. After a period in the second half of the 1960s during which his music had taken a decidedly speculative turn, Mantra signalled a return to the intricately systematised approach to musical construction that had characterised his serial works of the 1950s, and at the same time established a set of concerns that would underpin his music for much of the remainder of his life. This return to serial preoccupations was, however, by no means a regression. 'Mantra' expanded the possibilities and potentialities of the serial principle, effecting a decisive shift away from the more austere and abstract music of the 1950s, and effectively re-opening the doors to melody, theatre, extra-musical reference, and allusions to tonal harmony." Newton Armstrong

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May 2015

The playing cuts through with knockout physicality; the sense that you are being shown multiple sides of an object that is perpetually evolving, spinning in and out of control, is secure.

May/June 2015

The resulting music is playful, inventive, dramatic; a colourful array of semi-exotic sounds. It’s give a fine performance here by Knoop, Chadwick and Armstrong, sharper and more engaging that the rival version on Naxos.

19th February 2015

Mantra is also one of the most immediate and lucid of Stockhausen’s works; it’s a showpiece for the two pianists’ virtuosity, and for their comedic skills, too, in the few moments of rather heavy-handed humour.

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