Prom 11

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Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom

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Programme

Stockhausen, Karlheinz (1928-2007)	Gesang der Jünglinge (Song of the Youths) for tape
Stockhausen, Karlheinz (1928-2007)	Mittwoch aus Licht: Welt-Parlament (concert performance, London première)

Performers

Kathinka Pasveer	Sound
Ex Cathedra
Jeffrey Skidmore	Director

Last summer Graham Vick’s Birmingham Opera
Company transformed a disused factory in
Digbeth, Birmingham, into the fantastical
world of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s epic opera
Mittwoch aus ‘Licht’ with two bactrian camels,
four helicopters and a wash of yellow light.
Tonight Ex Cathedra and Jeffrey Skidmore revisit
the Babel tower of the opera’s most dazzling
section, Welt-Parlament (‘World Parliament’):
a multilingual a cappella tour de force of extended
vocal techniques. Written 30 years earlier, Gesang
der Jünglinge has been hailed as Stockhausen’s first
electronic masterpiece, a mind-popping sonic
translation of the biblical story of Shadrach, Meshach
and Abednego.

Tickets £12 - £16.

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Prom 11: Stockhausen's Welt-Parlament makes its London debut

Philip May, 19th July

Tonight’s Stockhausen Prom was in equal parts sonic experience and performance.In an introduction to a performance of Gesang der Jünglinge in 2001, Stockhausen proposed that “if you close your eyes every now and then, you might even see these angels”. In a concert performance this isn’t an empty suggestion; Gesang der Jünglinge is a truly acoustic experience.

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