Artist: GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, SWR Experimentalstudio
Title: Stockhausen: Mantra
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: NEOS Music
Genre: Classical
Quality:  flac 24bits - 48.0kHz
Total Time: 01:12:07
Total Size:  618 mb

Tracklist

01. Mantra: Beginning
02. Mantra: Bars 3-10
03. Mantra: Bars 11-70
04. Mantra: Bars 71-108
05. Mantra: Bars 109-120
06. Mantra: Bars 121-131
07. Mantra: Bars 132-150
08. Mantra: Bars 151-188
09. Mantra: Bars 189-211
10. Mantra: Bars 212-237
11. Mantra: Bars 238-261
12. Mantra: Bars 262-298
13. Mantra: Bars 299-323
14. Mantra: Bars 324-421
15. Mantra: Bars 422-434
16. Mantra: Bars 435-491
17. Mantra: Bars 492-529
18. Mantra: Bars 530-577
19. Mantra: Bars 578-637
20. Mantra: Bars 638-640
21. Mantra: Bars 641-655
22. Mantra: Bars 656-686
23. Mantra: Bars 687-854
24. Mantra: Bars 855-880
25. Mantra: Bars 881-883
26. Mantra: Bars 884-End

The GrauSchumacher Piano Duo has re-recorded Stockhausen's MANTRA with sound direction by Michael Acker from the SWR Experimentalstudio. In late 1969, Heinrich Strobel, then head of the music department at Sudwestfunk, commissioned Karlheinz Stockhausen to write a new piece for two pianos for the 1970 Donaueschingen Festival. Previous to that, Stockhausen had told Strobel about a vision he had during a flight to Los Angeles. The two pianists were to perform pianistic hand movements in the air when entering the stage which then, after arriving at their instruments, would become sound. Stockhausen had travelled to Osaka in March 1970 for the Expo '70 to present his music in the German Pavilion which he had helped design. During this time, the "VISION for 2 pianos", as the work was originally to be called, became MANTRA for 2 pianists, and the visual part was abandoned in favour of an electronic expansion. The visible non-sound of "VISION" thus became the by nature invisible electronic sound expansion which, however, was vaguely perceptible due to the positioning of the electronic devices next to the pianists.

Andreas Grau, Gotz Schumacher and Michael Acker have enjoyed a long-standing friendship through numerous performances of the present work MANTRA.