Five-Part Stockhausen Series Streaming on BBC Radio 3 

Source: Memories and Music.

There aren’t many composers with a place on the cover of a Beatles LP – Karlheinz Stockhausen‘s face is top row, fifth from the left on Sergeant Pepper. Stockhausen’s name is better known than almost any other composer of our age. Yet even though much of his music isn’t well known, by reputation he excites extremes of opinion. An open mind is all you need, when, for the first time on Composer of the Week, as part of Radio 3‘s “New Year New Music” season “Donald Macleod and his guest, composer, writer and broadcaster Robert Worby introduce you to the mind and music of one of the most original and innovative composers who’s ever lived.