Paul Morley on music: Stockhausen

The plastic present is about to become reacquainted with a 'musical miniature of the cosmos'There is a budget-price edition of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Mantra, for two pianos, percussion – sometimes crotales, which are essentially antique cymbals – and electronics, 40 years old this autumn, released by Naxos next month. I am going to recommend it, even use the words "astonishing" and "masterpiece" and mean them in a Bach sort of way rather than, say, a Paulo Nutini way, because for less than...

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