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rostasi · 03-04-2019, 08:37 PM

This afternoon, I packed up over 150 Stockhausen CDs in a box.

innerspaceboy · 03-04-2019, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by rostasi

This afternoon, I packed up over 150 Stockhausen CDs in a box.

That is beautiful. I need release details, catalog numbers, dates of issue, the contextual circumstances of the acquisition, and whether or not this was a single compendium omnibus box set I was not hitherto aware or if this was some mad man's brilliant self-compiled collection.

I picked up the Complete Works of Debussy last night, after reading an exhaustive comparative analysis of the Warner version vs the DG, (but of course, I went with DG regardless because f*ck Warner Records).

Planning on picking up one of a few complete works for piano and orchestra for both Debussy and Satie on vinyl. I've been compiling review data from SteveHoffman and other reliable classical sources to determine the best edition in which to invest.

But seriously, I have a framed portrait of Stockhausen on my wall and adore the early Berlin radio LPs. Please share more!

rostasi · 03-05-2019, 08:32 PM

It’s not really as exciting as it may seem. When I began studying with him and
subsequently becoming good friends, I decided that I should begin moving from
the LPs I had of his work to the CDs on his own personally supervised label. So, I
have all of his compositions and spoken word discs - many of which he would give
or send to me with greetings and signatures - along with DVDs, scores, books,
music boxes and other sundries. Keeping discs together of a similar nature is not
natural for me, but it helped to have them together for studying purposes.

Anyway, since Jan. 19, I’ve been boxing things up - especially books and audio -
because we’re having some major work done here on the house soon after getting
back from Knoxville. I’d just literally finished boxing up those discs last night.
It’ll be kind of bare-looking around here. The sitter will probably be shocked.

As for Satie, I would highly recommend the Aldo Ciccolini set. If you’re able to
spring for the 56-disc set of Ciccolini’s complete EMI recordings, I’d say go for that too.

innerspaceboy · 03-06-2019, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by rostasi

It’s not really as exciting as it may seem...

Song Of The Youths / Contact (1968) on DG was my initiation into musique concrète and soon thereafter I acquired complete digital archives of the DG avantgarde sublabel and the French Philips Prospective 21e Siècle labels as well as a few of those beautiful silver foil pressings.

I put together DVD-R compilations with jacket art for my digital archives -

I am absolutely in awe that you studied under him and were friends. Your archive sounds incredible! I sincerely hope that you've performed FLAC+CUE backups of all these discs and have them redundantly stored and bit-perfect synced across multiple disks in various physical locations because they sound like a pure treasure that needs to be preserved. (And if the works are not commercially licensed, perhaps you'd consider contributing them to The Internet Archive for future student's research?)

Thank you sincerely for the Satie recommendation. The Ciccolini volumes were precisely the pressings I intended to seek so your endorsement secures that decision. I also took a look at that 56-volume box set as you suggested - it looks fantastic and is a steal at just $71. I’d previously secured the 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon - The Collector's Edition 1 (111 CD set) but it contains very little of Satie, Debussy, and Ravel and from what I’m reading Ciccolini is the definitive performer of their piano works. Thank you so kindly for mentioning it!

If ever you’d care to share tales of your experience with Stockhausen or more of your own musical wisdom, I am all ears. Thank you once again.

rostasi · 03-06-2019, 12:58 PM

Nice to see those covers. I have all of those too.
They may not be all transferred to digital,
but they were a solid part of my growing up.

Not sure if what I have is really an archive,
but more closer to a collection of likes throughout the years.
The CDs were just a natural outgrowth of the situation and desires at the time.
Yes, I have digital backups on drives of all kinds of stuff, but I'm not obsessive about it.
They really aren't all that rare (except for the personal bits) because you can buy them
thru the Stockhausen Verlag (notice the "text" and "rehearsal" links at the top)
or at another CD shop here. The person running it used to have a nice technical setup
where you could listen to excerpts, but I don't know where it's at now.

The 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon set is nice (especially having the
Herbert von Karajan titles together), but DG really wasn't much of a
modern music label, so the "Avant Garde" series was pretty much of an anomaly.
Stockhausen bought the rights back to all of those DG titles and so those
performances are the ones that you get on the discs that he released thru the Verlag.

03-04-2019, 08:37 PM	#1 (permalink)
rostasi . Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 4,008	This afternoon, I packed up over 150 Stockhausen CDs in a box.

03-05-2019, 08:32 PM	#3 (permalink)
rostasi . Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 4,008	It’s not really as exciting as it may seem. When I began studying with him and subsequently becoming good friends, I decided that I should begin moving from the LPs I had of his work to the CDs on his own personally supervised label. So, I have all of his compositions and spoken word discs - many of which he would give or send to me with greetings and signatures - along with DVDs, scores, books, music boxes and other sundries. Keeping discs together of a similar nature is not natural for me, but it helped to have them together for studying purposes. Anyway, since Jan. 19, I’ve been boxing things up - especially books and audio - because we’re having some major work done here on the house soon after getting back from Knoxville. I’d just literally finished boxing up those discs last night. It’ll be kind of bare-looking around here. The sitter will probably be shocked. As for Satie, I would highly recommend the Aldo Ciccolini set. If you’re able to spring for the 56-disc set of Ciccolini’s complete EMI recordings, I’d say go for that too.

03-06-2019, 12:58 PM	#5 (permalink)
rostasi . Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 4,008	Nice to see those covers. I have all of those too. They may not be all transferred to digital, but they were a solid part of my growing up. Not sure if what I have is really an archive, but more closer to a collection of likes throughout the years. The CDs were just a natural outgrowth of the situation and desires at the time. Yes, I have digital backups on drives of all kinds of stuff, but I'm not obsessive about it. They really aren't all that rare (except for the personal bits) because you can buy them thru the Stockhausen Verlag (notice the "text" and "rehearsal" links at the top) or at another CD shop here. The person running it used to have a nice technical setup where you could listen to excerpts, but I don't know where it's at now. The 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon set is nice (especially having the Herbert von Karajan titles together), but DG really wasn't much of a modern music label, so the "Avant Garde" series was pretty much of an anomaly. Stockhausen bought the rights back to all of those DG titles and so those performances are the ones that you get on the discs that he released thru the Verlag.