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Mittwoch aus Licht – review

4474 days ago
Guardian MusicArgyle Works, BirminghamKarlheinz Stockhausen spent 27 years composing the seven operas, one for each day of the week, that make up his monumental Licht cycle.He finished the whole work in 2004, and while every individual scene of each opera had been... more info

Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Helicopter String Quartet – watch live

4475 days ago
Guardian MusicFour helicopters with one member of a string quartet in each will take to the Birmingham skies on Wednesday 22 August. The quartet is one of the six scenes of an ambitious and daring musical production – the first ever complete staging of Stockhaus... more info

This week's new live music

4479 days ago
Guardian MusicReading/Leeds FestivalIt's more than 20 years now since the Reading/Leeds festival entered its modern era, but the event's image remains the same: a goth eating a baked potato sitting by a fire made of plastic cups. A hard rock festival with occasion... more info

Last unperformed Stockhausen opera lifts off

4489 days ago
Guardian MusicThe strings play in helicopters, the trumpeter's on a trapeze, and a camel dances around while defecating planets. Alexis Petridis on Birmingham Opera Company's bid to stage a mind-boggling Stockhausen operaIt's a Thursday afternoon and, outside the... more info

Lina Lalandi

4520 days ago
Guardian MusicLina Lalandi, who has died aged 91, founded the English Bach festival in 1962, and was its director from the first festival, in 1963, until her death. Its early performances of both modern and baroque music took place in Oxford before, in the 1970s, ... more info

Iamus's Hello World! – review

4526 days ago
Guardian MusicThe musical 'genomes' generate melodies that have a superficial coherence, with all the dryness and greyness that suggestsIamus's Hello World! for piano, clarinet, and violin, ought to pose existential questions about the integrity of musical composi... more info

The five myths about contemporary classical music

4593 days ago
Guardian MusicContemporary classical music is devoid of melody and appeal, all noise and no fun. At least, that's the cliche. But this is music that is very much at the heart of our modern world1. It all sounds like a squeaky gateThere are two sides to this. Fi... more info

Stockhausen opera to be staged in full for first time – helicopters and all

4637 days ago
Guardian MusicBirmingham Opera Company performance of Mittwoch aus Licht for London 2012 festival will have flying soloists and two choirsIt is not the headache of four separate helicopters carrying string quartet performers that is keeping Graham Vick awake at ni... more info

Cultural Olympiad 2012 reaches the critical masses

4638 days ago
Guardian MusicThe Olympics cultural programme is reaching the point of no return, with its brochure being finalised. Organiser Ruth Mackenzie is sure of successBorrowing marathon parlance, Ruth Mackenzie, in charge of the Cultural Olympiad and its showpiece London... more info

Aldo Clementi obituary

4965 days ago
Guardian MusicItalian composer with a quiet approach to problems of creationAldo Clementi, who has died aged 85, was the last survivor of the great generation of Italian postwar musical avant-gardists. He was also its quietest and most self-effacing member, both p... more info

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