One of the world’s most famous new music festivals has been held in   Darmstadt since 1946. We’ll trace the festival from its beginnings   through modern times and feature some of the seminal works that were   premiered there.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters

PLAYLIST
Stockhausen: Kreuzspiel (excerpt)
Alfred Schweinfurter, oboe; Wolfgang Marx, bass clarinet; David Tudor, piano;
Christoph Caskel, Heinz Haedler, & Manfred Wehner, percussion/Stockhausen
Pierre Boulez: Doubles
Het Residentie Orkest/Boulez

Luciano Berio: Sequenza No. 1 for Flute
Severino Gazzelloni, flute
Darmstadt archives
Beat Furrer: à un moment de terre perdue
Klangforum Wien/Furrer
Enno Poppe: Salz
Ensemble Mosaik