Stockhausen: Helicopter String Quartet
by Scheffer
List Price:
Our Price: $35.99
You Save: $3.99 (10%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $19.16 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Arditti String Quartet, StockhausenDirector: Scheffer
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Norwegian (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Euroarts
Movie Reviews of Stockhausen: Helicopter String Quartet
Movie Review: Karlheinz- Wo bist Du?
Summary: 5 Stars
always toward the end you get more Zen-like; simplicity seems to impart itself on older consciousnesses;it happen to Hegel, Godard,Goethe,Webern and Lacan; be what you do, you try to come to terms with what you did in the beginning with high levels of complexity and proceed forward; Stockhausen (KS) explains he has no philosophy,(but really he does) speaking in impeccable German, he speaks in clear threadbare rhythms like his latter music of LICHT,beautiful in-and-of-itself; but KS did (the latter years, 1970 forward cultivate a kind of soft non-threatening tribalism,certainly no worse than the brutal cultural cadres in New York City; his tribes practice(laid back) in tune with high post-war modernity and his own celestial migrations to the zodiac,(kreis) new spaces,new densities and configural gardens; here the Helikopter Quartet was something a bit more interesting for Arditti to do than the coldly calculated abstractions they perform, assisted by the Grasshoppers, The Dutch Air Force stunt team, but far from overt entertainment, seeing the four helikopters hovering in sinusoidal patterns almost within reach of each other(it is a string quartet)and has its own restrained gentle beauty without always encumbered by the incessant chopper blade rotors being heard,helikopters do not instantly suggest peace or serious art,but things far more violent and turbulent,nightmarish for some,understandable why the piece was boycotted(How much does this cost, how many hungry children can be fed?, we hear) and had to move to The Holland Festival; the Arditti should be congratulated for such aeshtetic bravery for art;( new genre to contemplate) They simply don't play and are required to shout numbers in German, eins, zwei, vier, funf, something from LICHT(Light) for which this piece(peace) was contemplated in 1995.The piece does become a bit goofy seeing each isolated player,like some aesthetic vessel.There are wonderful rehearsals coordination on the ground with KS at the controls something he does quite well, while the troops are in the air hovering. The music is not about the music but about how the helikopters move, you eradicate this and the music is fairly commonplace, even for Stockhausen;this music fairly resembles what helikopters do,hover,rotate,spin, so string tremoli all blended together electronically give a nice gentle ambience.
Now I know why Stockhausen has neglected the string timbre throughout his life, not really writing anything distingushable or exciting for strings alone, and strings are far removed from the universals incorporated into his cherished timbre, electronics, live or otherwise.Well here technically this is very expensive electronic music.This is a gentle portrait of what seems to be a gentle human simply practicing his art, tending his gardens of timbres. . .
Summary of Stockhausen: Helicopter String Quartet
Karlheinz Stockhausen's Helikopter-Streichquartett is one of the most controversial and talked-about works of art in recent years. Composed for the Arditti Quartet and premiered at the 1995 Holland Festival, it involves the four members of a string quartet playing in four different helicopters flying through the air. The music the quartet plays is then sent to a central space and mixed at a sound board. In his film Helicopter String Quartet, Frank Scheffer documents the complex preparations in the month leading up to the premiere of this work, as well as eliciting insights from the composer regarding how he conceived and executed it. Stockhausen tells Scheffer, for example, that the idea for the work came to him in a dream he had of musicians being able to fly. He then produced a fascinatingly original score in which each instrument is written in a different color, and in which the four string lines frequently jump from one staff to the other in order to imitate birds flying in different formations. Stockhausen also analyzes the content of the work for Scheffer, in particular showing how the writing for the quartet is meant to merge with the sonic characteristics of the helicopters. Scheffer goes behind the scenes and, stage by stage, shows the enormous production needed to realize Helikopter-Streichquartett.Musicals & Performing Arts DVD Video
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Movies most talked about in Ultimate Guide to Literary Chamber Music and String Quartets
String Quartets 2 3 & 6Release date: 2006-09-12; DVD
Best price: $17.45
Price in other shops:
String Quartet No. 2Release date: 2002-11-26; DVD
Best price: $35.32
Price in other shops:
Stockhausen: Helicopter String QuartetRelease date: 2008-06-24; DVD
Best price: $17.98
Price in other shops:
Smetana QuartetRelease date: 2003-04-22; DVD
Best price: $25.99
Price in other shops:
Mozart: String QuartetsRelease date: 2008-06-24; DVD
Best price: $25.94
Price in other shops:
Mozart - Famous String Quartets / Gewandhaus QuartetRelease date: 2005-10-18; DVD
Best price: $14.79
Price in other shops:
Hagen Quartett - Schubert: String Quartet in D Minor "Death and the Maiden"; Ravel: String Quartet in F MajorRelease date: 2009-01-27; DVD
Best price: $16.95
Price in other shops:
Hagen Quartett: Mozart Quintet for Clarinet and Strings/ Beethoven String Quartet No. 16Release date: 2009-04-28; DVD
Best price: $25.99
Price in other shops:
Death & The Maiden - String Quartet No 14 D810Release date: 2006-01-24; DVD
Best price: $16.56
Price in other shops:
Borodin Quartet: Tchaikovsky String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2; Shostakovich String Quartets Nos. 3 & 8Release date: 2008-11-18; DVD
Best price: $17.72
Price in other shops:
Similar DVD Movies
Juxtapositions: Elliott Carter - A Labyrinth of TimeRelease date: 2006-09-26; DVD
Best price: $13.79
Price in other shops:
Olivier Messiaen - The Crystal LiturgyRelease date: 2007-11-20; DVD
Best price: $18.00
Price in other shops:
Stockhausen: Helikopter-QuartettRelease date: 1999-10-26; Music CD
Best price: $8.12
Price in other shops:
ListenRelease date: 2004-08-17; DVD
Best price: $24.67
Price in other shops:
Stravinsky: Once at a Border / Tony PalmerRelease date: 2008-05-27; DVD
Best price: $13.69
Price in other shops:
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Centuryby Alex Ross
Picador; Published: 2008-10-14; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.98
Price in other shops:
Leos Janacek - From the House of Dead / MCO, ASC, Boulez, Chereau (Festival Aix-en-Provence 2007)Release date: 2008-04-22; DVD
Best price: $18.45
Price in other shops:
Pierre Henry - The Art of SoundsRelease date: 2007-11-20; DVD
Best price: $16.40
Price in other shops:
Adams: Doctor AtomicRelease date: 2008-09-30; DVD
Best price: $25.48
Price in other shops:
Variations VII by John Cage: E.A.T. - 9 Evenings: Theatre & EngineeringRelease date: 2008-05-27; DVD
Best price: $12.40
Price in other shops: