"Atmen gibt das Leben..." : Chor-Oper mit Orchester / Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 1928-2007

Contributor:

Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 1928-2007, conductor.

Norddeutscher Rundfunk. Chor, performer.

Norddeutscher Rundfunk. Sinfonie-Orchester, performer.

Language:

English

French

German

Subjects (All):

Operas.

Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc (50 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo ; 12 in.

12 in.

Other Title:

"Breathing gives life..."

"Le souffle donne la vie..."

Place of Publication:

Hamburg, West Germany : Deutsche Grammophon, [1984, [p1983]

System Details:

analog

33 1/3 rpm

microgroove

stereo

Participant:

Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks ; Sinfonie-Orchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks ; Karlheinz Stockhausen, musical preparation and sound projection, and conductor of the prerecorded orchestra.

Notes:

Sung in German.

Titles on back of container: "Atmen gibt das Leben..." : Chor-Oper mit Orchester (oder Tonband) = "Breathing gives life..." : Choral Opera with orchestra (or tape) = "Le souffle donne la vie..." : Opéra pour chœur avec orchestre (ou bande magnétique).

Text by the composer; "includes, as quotations, three Haiku and one sentence each from Socreates, the Gospel according to St. Thomas [sic], and Meister Eckehart" -- Program notes inserted.

Duration: 49 min., 34 sec.

Program notes in German by the composer, with English translation by Suzanne Stephens, and French translation by Ralph Alexandre Fassey, and text with English and French translations by the same, and a discography of Stockhausen's music on Deutsche Grammophon ([3] p.) inserted in container.

Recorded in Cologne, February 9, 1979. "The prerecorded orchestra was played over loudspeakers. This recording was made in April 1977" -- Program notes inserted.

OCLC:

13654936

Publisher Number:

2894108571

410 857-1. Deutsche Grammophon