Historic First Of The Klavierstucke I-VIII & XI

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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.