Stockhausen's Gruppen x 3

[Tassilo]

You can listen to the June 29 New York première of Gruppen on Medici TV on the New York Philharmonic’s website. (Friends of mine and I heard the performance on June 30.) There are also links below to two spectacular performances of Gruppen posted on Youtube . . . and to flac files for one of the performances.

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Gruppen
The New York Philharmonic
Magnus Lindberg, conductor, Orchestra I
Alan Gilbert, conductor, Orchestra II
Matthias Pintscher, conductor, Orchestra III
New York première, The Armory, June 29, 2012

2012.nyphil.org/watch-listen

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Gruppen
Ensemble Modern
hr-Sinfonieorchester
Lucas Vis, conductor, Orchestra I
Matthias Pintscher, conductor, Orchestra II
Paul Fitzsimon, conductor, Orchestra III
Cresc. Biennale für Moderne Musik
Böllenfalltorhalle, Darmstadt, 26.11.2011

flac files for excellent audio of the performance shown on Youtube:
http://tinyurl.com/7hyg6r4

Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqvlrphkGAU

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Gruppen
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
John Carewe, conductor, Orchestra I
Simon Rattle, conductor, Orchestra II
Daniel Harding, conductor, Orchestra III
Birmingham, Symphony Hall, 2 March, 1996

The DVD “Leaving Home, volume 6: After the Wake”
includes the film of the Rattle performance shown on Youtube:
http://tinyurl.com/9aj9njx

Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhVppVKzzGQ

-dg

[Saint Russell]

I have not listened to it yet (not that I would know a spectacular Gruppen from a run-of-the-mill one) but this one is among the "Tanglewood 75" downloads offered at the Boston Symphony's website:

Stockhausen: Gruppen für drei Orchester
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Oliver Knussen, Reinbert de Leeuw, and Robert Spano, conductors
Theatre-Concert Hall, August 25, 1993