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Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Tamara Stefanovich, and Marco Stroppa came together in synergistic harmony to deliver a searing performance of Mantra

Music at its most urgent extremes from Pierre-Laurent Aimard in the Southbank Stockhausen festival.

Over 10 years after his death, Karlheinz Stockhausen still occupies a complex and difficult place in the canon of contemporary composers. This year's Musikfest Berlin featured a Stockhausen focus, of which the "creation ceremony" Inori was the climax.