DG Online

Alex Ross has a great post on Deutsche Grammophon's new web store. One thing I'd like to add: if you are interested in doing as he has and downloading Kurtag's Stele, please avail yourself of the opportunity of also buying another "track" on that same CD, Stockhausen's magnificent Gruppen. This is one of the pieces that made a Stockhausen fan out of me; it's music that's planned to the last hemidemisemiquaver, but still manages to sound improvisatory (and dig the part for electric guitar). I hope that the DG people will add more from their large Stockhausen catalogue.