Third Hour: Nat.C3.BCrliche Dauern Klang (Stockhausen)

stockhausen antonio pérez abellán during recording sessions natürliche dauern 16–24

natürliche dauern 1–24 (natural durations 1–24), piano, 2005–06 (ca. 140 mins.). work number 83. specified colour teal blue (stockhausen 2008b, cover).

natürliche dauern consists of 24 pieces solo piano. no. 1 premiered in new york 23 february 2006, @ holy trinity church, 65th street , central park west philip edward fisher (anon. 2006); nos. 2–15 premiered @ sülztalhalle in kürten on 12 july 2006 pianists benjamin kobler , frank gutschmidt; nos. 16–24 premiered in lisbon on 17 july 2007 spanish pianist antonio pérez abellán, whom these dedicated (stockhausen-stiftung für musik 2008, 37 & 78).

there various ways determine intervals of entry using durations of tones or sounds, whereby each time entire rhythmic development of piano piece governed natural durations. in of pieces, durations regulated prescribed in- , exhaling, or resonances of rin (japanese temple instruments) struck. in cycle, various degrees of difficulty of piano playing result in natural durations—for example, intervallic leaps of various sizes, or way fingers mesh, or bunching of simultaneously played keys, or combinations of attacks, clusters, glissandi , more or less complicated notation of attack durations. (stockhausen-stiftung für musik 2008, 77)