KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN:
Klavierstück I
Klavierstück V
Klavierstück X
KONTAKTE for piano, percussion and electronics (with Chris Graham, percussion)

Tickets: Taka Kigawa | STOCKHAUSEN - Sunday September 15 - LPR

Taka Kigawa will perform the major works of the modern music icon, Karlheinz Stockhausen.

"The 10th (Klavierstück,) written in 1961, is a colorful mix of cluster chords, glissandos and dramatic dynamic contrasts. Mr. Kigawa vividly conveyed the kaleidoscopic sonic effects, punctuated throughout by long silences."- The New York Times

"He opened his program with Stockhausen’s Klavierstück X, a work filled with constant tone clusters and glissandi, featuring perhaps more virtuosic modernist fireworks than the Boulez. Kigawa took an entirely novel and whimsical approach to playing this work, donning fingerless fleece gloves to aid in the glissandi and clusters. The effect was practical, too, in that Kigawa achieved an unprecedented evenness of tone and sound production. He moved effortlessly between glissando, chunky chords, disjunct angular melodies, and full-arm clusters, never once sounding as though he was using a new technique. At first it had a reductive quality, but eventually, it became clear that Kigawa was perhaps staying truer to Stockhausen’s notation than any version I’ve heard. The final section, with its throbbing, fast repeated notes, was especially emotional, bringing the work to a dynamic climax." - Consequence of Sound

Special Guest: Chris Graham, percussion

Doors open at 6:00 PM