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Stockhausen: Historic First Recordings of the Klavierstücke I-VIII & XI
David Tudor (piano)
The documentary value of this historic first recording is huge: Stockhausen's Klavierstucke V-XI were all dedicated to Tudor...He captures perfectly the crystalline pointillism of Stockhausen's...
Stockhausen: Historic First Recordings of the Klavierstücke I-VIII & XI
David Tudor (piano)
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The documentary value of this historic first recording is huge: Stockhausen's Klavierstucke V-XI were all dedicated to Tudor...He captures perfectly the crystalline pointillism of Stockhausen's...
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Stockhausen calls his piano pieces his “drawings”, the pieces in which he sketches out ideas without the added colour complexity of instrumental timbres. More significantly, in these early pieces you can hear a composer grappling with the challenge of electronic sound, looking for “envelope curves” that will allow the old medium to compete with the new. As played by Tudor in this historic recording, the piano gives its answer to the synthesizer.
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January 2019
The documentary value of this historic first recording is huge: Stockhausen's Klavierstucke V-XI were all dedicated to Tudor...He captures perfectly the crystalline pointillism of Stockhausen's magnificent sound-world (particularly Nos I-IV)...Although recorded in 1958, the sound is clear and full.
7th October 2018
More than anyone, [Tudor] has the measure of this idiom, with its impossible splashes of notes, its new world of articulation, cross-register leaps and, above all, treble filigree effects. He usefully provides four versions of the aleatory Klavierstücke XI.
