The key signatures of music are kind of like the signs of the zodiac. If you take all the music in a given key, you’ll discover certain characteristics —﻿ characteristics that can define your personality.

Visit CBC Music to learn more about the characteristics of all the key signatures covered so far. Which key are you? www.cbcmusic.ca/signatureseries

The Signature Series is produced in Vancouver, Canada for CBC Radio 2's In Concert by @paolopp with Denise Ball.

B major: The Artist

Karlheinz Stockhausen
PLUS-MINUS
Ives Ensemble

From the sleeve:
"Perhaps more than any other composer of his generation, Stockhausen realised that serialism had an expressive potential which went far beyond the method of twelve-tone composition devised by Schoenberg. In these three key works from the 1950s and early 1960s he found ways of using the serial principle to govern not just pitch, but every aspect of sound-types and their distribution in time and space, culminating in Plus-Minus, a score which specified not sounds but rather a system of organising sounds." Christopher Fox 

KARLHEIN STOCKHAUSEN (1928-2007)
PLUS-MINUS

1. Refrain No. 11 (1959) 09:53
2. Kreuzspiel No. 1/7 (1951) 11:43
3. Plus-Minus* No. 14 (1963) 51:02
Total time 72:41

First recording* by Ives Ensemble:
Rik Andriessen - flute (3), Esther Probst - Oboe (2, 3), Hans Petra - bass clarinet (2, 3), Jan Willem van der Ham - bassoon (3), Fons Verspaandonk - horn (3), Jan Bastiani - trombone (3), John Snijders - piano (1, 2, 3), Reinier van Houdt - piano/celesta (1, 3), Arnold Marinissen - percussion (1, 2, 3), Wilbert Grootenboer - percussion (2, 3), Fedor Teunisse - percussion 2), Josje ter Haar - violin (3), Ruben Sanderse - viola (3), Job ter Haar - cello (3), Diederik Meijnckens - double bass (3), Richard Rijnvos - conductor (3).

Recorded in Theater Romein, Leeuwarden (Netherlands) 29th June - 2nd July 2002; Sound engineers: Sem de Jongh &amp; Arjan van Asselt; Editing: Sem de Jongh; Recording supervisors: Richard Rijnvos &amp; Christopher Fox; CD-master by Peter Pfister; Liner notes by Christopher Fox; Graphic concept by fuhrer vienna; Produced by Ives Ensemble &amp; Werner X. Uehlinger.

With kind support the Willy A. and Hedwig Bachofen-Henn Foundation.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen / 3. Plus-Minus No.14 (1963)

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