Second Hour: Freude Klang (Stockhausen)



marianne smit, esther kooi, premiered freude, second hour of klang.


freude (joy), 2 harps. 2005 (40 mins.). work number 82. specified colour medium blue (stockhausen 2007e, cover; stockhausen 2008b cover).


freude premiered in milan cathedral on 7 june 2006 marianne smit , esther kooi, harps (stockhausen 2006b, 19 & 39). american premiere given in new york on 2 may 2010 june han , bridget kibbey (anon. 2010; smith 2010).


the earliest sketch second hour of klang headed title galaxien (galaxies), , has later alternative suggestion of kreuz-klang-rätsel (cross-klang-puzzle) (stockhausen 2007a, 5). when stockhausen received commission don luigi garbini of milan cathedral work, premiered pentecost 2006, provisionally titled work pentecost, , chose text pentecost hymn veni creator spiritus , sung in latin 2 harpists play. following 24 verses of latin hymn, work composed, first hour, in 24 moments, , title changed freude, because fundamental feeling stockhausen had composition (stockhausen 2007a, 3).


the text setting syllabic, sibilant, employs speech-song, , in places evokes plainchant , polyphony. music probes meaning of joy through deep , detailed text-setting reminiscent of frighteningly beautiful mikrophonie ii of 1965 (medwin 2007).


at french premiere in lyon on friday, 8 march 2008, formidable interpretation dedicatees, harpists marianne smit , esther kooi, freude produced effect of fountain of youth (gervasoni 2008a). @ new york premiere 2 years later, appreciating sophisticated composition brilliantly executed natural. if gave on stockhausen’s calculated mix of ritualistic vocals , harps’ intrinsic glamour, peculiar divinity envisioned seemed within reach smith 2010.







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