PLEASE SUPPORT THE ARTIST. You can order this music on http://stockhausencds.com/. Thank you! HYMNEN (Dritte Region) / Anthems (Third Region) Elektronische und Konkrete Musik mit Orchester Electronic and Concrete Music with Orchestra Leonard Bernstein commissioned a work from Stockhausen for the New York Philharmonic, and HYMNEN 3rd Region with Orchestra was premiered in 1971 at the longest-ever concert ever held there at that time. This performance featured Stockhausen's live soloists accompanying the HYMNEN tape for Regions I, II and IV, while Region III was performed with the orchestra from Stockhausen's newly completed work. An independent version of this work (without a performance of the full 2- hour HYMNEN tape) covers only the anthem Centers of Africa, Russia, the USA and Spain. Also, this version of the tape starts with a small, unique shortwave radio "upbeat", before proceeding into the 2nd Region's Africa section (CD A, track 21, 20:28). After the fade out of Region II, an orchestra-only section (a newly composed "Russian Bridge") is performed by the orchestra, which basically "covers" for the tape as it it switched to the next reel. After the Bridge, the 3rd Region tape enters and the orchestra accompanies this to the end of that Region (Spain). The orchestra parts to be played during the tape portions were originally scored using symbolic, aleatoric notation somewhat similar in spirit to the score for STOP or PROZESSION. The orchestra musicians were to become familiar enough with the tape so that they could freely choose pitches heard in the tape part, and use them in tremolo and ostinato figures as cued in the score. The score also indicated graphic shapes (slopes and wavy lines) to guide pitch transpositions of these tremoli/ostinati. Though the actual pitch material is aleatory, the symbolic notation basically serves as an orchestration of elements in the tape. However, because there were never enough rehearsals for the orchestra musicians to become familiar enough with the tape to pick out and play tape pitches in rhythmic unison (attacking with the tape attacks), Stockhausen eventually notated the pitches in the published score which, for the most part, the orchestra musicians simply play. This "notated" version also has some extra anthemic melodic material not present on the tape. In other words, some "new" anthem fragments (or echoes of other anthems) are played live by the orchestra (for example 2nd bar of cue 11 or 2nd bar of cue 14). This "orchestral accompaniment" to the HYMNEN tape is actually very involved and is perhaps comparable to the notated piano and percussion parts to the "live accompaniment" version of KONTAKTE. Video created with Sonic Visualizer and vokoscreen on an openSUSE 13.2 Linux System.