This much I can say: its Fourth Act - Luzifers Abschied – is the creepiest music I have ever heard. Putting aside stereotypes and astronomical gas bills, this is Hell, best understood as a dynamic where God’s absence is total. What resides in its place? Chaos in all its causticity; meaninglessness and the loss of symmetry; disintegration; the tyranny of small things; Nietzsche’s Law of Eternal Recurrence, fresh from five minutes in the microwave; endless repeats of Baywatch being played backwards and overdubbed in the Black Speech of Mordor.
Listen to this music late at night and it’ll be an “On the Road to Damascus Experience” of sorts where Abaddon, archangel of the abyss, will slip you his business card before the night is through.
This is so much more than mood-music or a glorified film score. Indeed, it’s a deeply religious work. Somewhat unwillingly, Lucifer listened to it with me at our last meeting of the Australian Knappertsbusch Association. He too was left spooked. As he left the room, he muttered, “Stay in the light! Stay in the light!” in a higher-pitch voice than normal. I took this to mean something more than a reference to the Bee-Gees and their jeans of gold. by Bernard Michael O'Hanlon
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN (1928-2007) - Samstag Aus Licht
[1988] DG / 4CD / CBR320 / scan
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