Sirius (Stockhausen)

Sirius est une œuvre de Karlheinz Stockhausen, écrite pour voix et instruments (plus bande magnétique).

Effectifs :

• Soprano solo,
• Basse solo,
• Trompette,
• Clarinette basse,
• Bande magnétique (8 pistes)

L'œuvre a été créé le 8 août 1977 au festival d'Aix-en-Provence.

Composition

Au début de cette composition qui porte le numéro 43 dans l'œuvre de Stockhausen, on entend des haut-parleurs qui émettent la corne de détresse de quatre vaisseaux qui atterrissent en provenance de Sirius.^{[réf. nécessaire]}

Discographie

• Aries, for trumpet and electronic music. Markus Stockhausen, trumpet. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 33 (with Klavierstück XIII: Luzifers Traum, as piano solo).
• Capricorn, for bass voice and electronic music. Nicholas Isherwood, bass. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 59 (with Rechter Augenbrauentanz for clarinets, bass clarinets, percussionist, synthesizer player).
• Libra, for bass clarinet and electronic music. Suzanne Stephens, bass clarinet. In Music for Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, and Basset-horn. 3-CD set. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 32.
• Sirius, electronic music with trumpet, soprano, bass clarinet and bass voice (Summer version). Markus Stockhausen, trumpet; Annette Merriweather, soprano; Suzanne Stephens, bass clarinet; Boris Carmeli, bass. Deutsche Grammophon 2-LP set 2707 122 (1980). Reissued on 2-CD set, Stockhausen Complete Edition, CD 26.
• Sirius, electronic music in 4 versions: Spring version, Summer version, Autumn version, Winter version) 8-CD set, Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 76

Bibliographie

• Ball, Malcolm. 1997. "Licht aus Stockhausen ". Avant no. 5.
• Felder, David. 1977. "An Interview with Karlheinz Stockhausen ". Perspectives of New Music 16, no. 1 (Fall-Winter): 85–101.
• Hollings, Ken. 1999. " Lost in the Stars: Karlheinz Stockhausen in Conversation with Ken Hollings, Kurten, Germany, 12 March 1999". The Wire, no. 184 (May).
• Kurtz, Michael. 1992. Stockhausen: A Biography, translated by Richard Toop. London and Boston: Faber and Faber. (ISBN 0-571-14323-7) (cloth) (ISBN 0-571-17146-X) (pbk)
• Maconie, Robin. 2005. Other Planets: The Music of Karlheinz Stockhausen. Lanham, Maryland, Toronto, Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. (ISBN 0-8108-5356-6)
• Manion, Michael . [2000]. "From Tape Loops To MIDI—Stockhausen's 40 Years of Electronic Music".
• Stockhausen, Karlheinz. 1989. Towards a Cosmic Music, selected and translated by Tim Nevill. Longmead (Shaftsbury, Dorset): Element Books. (ISBN 1-85230-084-1)
• Tannenbaum, Mya. 1987. Conversations with Stockhausen, translated from the Italian by David Butchart. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press. (ISBN 0-19-315467-6)

Liens externes

• Ressource relative à la musique :
  • BRAHMS