Track Listing

1. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
2. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
3. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
4. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
5. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
6. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
7. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
8. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
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10. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
11. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
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13. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
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17. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
18. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
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20. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
21. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
22. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
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30. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
31. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
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41. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
42. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
43. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
44. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
45. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
46. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
47. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
48. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
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50. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version
51. Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones: Singcircle version

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #63134 in Music
• Released on: 1992-09-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Customer Reviews

A truly 'New Age' work
This is an astounding work by one of the true masters of the post-WWII avant-garde. Stockhausen often worked with massive (and complex) forces, but here, all we find are six unadorned voices, gradually chanting their way through a litany of sacred names, erotic verse, meditative intonations, all utilizing only the harmonics of a single root B-flat tone that can be produced by the human voice. There are many people that think that washing synths, twiddly melodies, and overdubbed whales makes for 'New Age'...but "Stimmung" really sounds like some mysterious, just-beyond-comprehension ceremony from some time not yet reached. Singcircle's performance here is perhaps the best I've heard, also, with very exacting (and rigorous) performance capabilities in evidence. And having some familiarity myself with how overtone singing works, I can say that the effort which the ensemble makes here is truly leviathan, monumental, and all the more astounding for its accomplishment!

Beautiful, but...
The singers are all top-class, and the recording technique superb, but I still prefer the older recordings with the Collegium Vocale Köln (2 versions in Stockhausen-Edition CD12), who premiered "Stimmung" in the late 1960's. The reason is that the Collegium Vocale singers seemed to have a very good time when singing and the piece progresses spontaneously (note that in this piece the singers have to make decisions almost all the time during each performance). On the other side, the Singcircle singers seem to be always very, very concentrated, but they take the music too seriously, and even the funny interludes when "erotic" verses by Stockhausen are recited are performed as if they were written for the Church. If you really like this music you should have both recordings.

experimentation on tonal potentials of the human voice
I feel many listeners would agree that Stimmung is far more accessible to the average listener than Stochausen's other works.Some listeners,however, who valued Stockhausen's lack of repitition,may be disappointed.I for one feel it is more akin to the more minimal works of Glass/Reich in that its structure poses more of a developmental process than his works inclined towards 'chance'-still this is not for your average listener and might appear very strange indeed.More problematic than the still non-repetitive structure is the strict adherence to solo-instrumentation-namely, the human voice.This does not mean to say that this is for fans of choral music-the use of the voice veers more toward chanting than singing.-Still 5 stars from me.