Edizioni Conz

Four previously unreleased realizations of Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Zylus" (different recordings than the one featured on the Columbia LP Electronics and Percussion -- Five Realizations. Recorded 1959-68. The term "New York School" refers to a circle of composers. "Zyklus" was written in 1959 and is one of the first solo pieces to utilize such a large number of percussion instruments (twenty-one). When Max Neuhaus first started to play this piece there were only three percussionists in the world who could play it. Each of these four recordings is a document of a true solo performance, one person and two hands, with no additional live help and no overdubbing. This CD also offers four different kinds of beauty, four proofs that the latitude that Stockhausen allowed, when capitalized on by a performer with creative imagination, could validate Stockhausen as a composer and an entire aesthetic of freedom and control. This edition includes a 12-page booklet with original photos of both official concerts and performances for invited audiences, Max Neuhaus' own comments on the original score and an editorial note by John Rockwell. This CD contains 4 realizations of Stockhausen's "No. 9 Zyklus For One Percussionist", composed in 1959. Track 1: at Wergo Records Studios, 1963. Track 2: solo recital, Carnegie Recital Hall, New York City, June 2, 1964. Track 3: West Deutsche Rundfunk Studios, Cologne, Germany, 1965. Track 4: Columbia Records Studios, New York City, June 1968.