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Title:  Zyklus Four Realizations by Max Neuhaus Artist:  Karlheinz Stockhausen Label:  Alga Marghen Format:  CD Price:  € 18.90   Mp3 samples:   1   2

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Zyklus was written in 1959 and is one of the first solo pieces to utilize such a large nember of percussion instruments (twenty one). When Neuhaus first started to play this piece there were only three percussionists in the world who could play it. Stockhausen's idea was that a performer would play the piece spontaneosly, making its complex decisions n the fly. No one played it this way; it was too difficult. Everyone wrote out his own version of the score and played from it. Coming from the world of jazz Neuhaus decided he wanted to take up the challenge of playing it spontaneously. At that time percussionists generally played only one instrument at a time. Playing twenty one siultaneously was unheard of. Neuhaus quickly realized that the only way to do it, in fact, was to think of all them together as just one instrument, one multi-surfaced bank of timbre.

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