Klavierstücke I-XI

by Karlheinz Stockhausen / Herbert Henck

Klavierstücke I-XI cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: Wergo
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 1:35:41
  • Community rating: 3.71/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Virtuoso pianist Herbert Henck meticulously executes the profoundly demanding, mathematically rigorous piano compositions of the German avant-garde pioneer. 'Klavierstücke I-XI' requires immense technical precision to navigate its complex serialist structures, atonal leaps, and heavily prescribed dynamic shifts. The Wergo recording stands as a definitive, crystalline documentation of post-war European piano music.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, technical, atonal, dissonant, avant-garde, piano, unaccompanied-solo, complex

Tracklist

  1. Nr. 2: Klavierstück I (1952/1953) (3:46)
  2. Nr. 2: Klavierstück II (1952/1953) (1:03)
  3. Nr. 2: Klavierstück III (1952/1953) (0:23)
  4. Nr. 2: Klavierstück IV (1952/1953) (1:59)
  5. Aus Nr. 4: Klavierstück V (1954) (5:06)
  6. Aus Nr. 4: Klavierstück VII (1954) (7:47)
  7. Aus Nr. 4: Klavierstück VIII (1954) (1:34)
  8. Aus Nr. 4: Klavierstück VI (1954/1955, rev. 1961) (24:41)
  9. Aus Nr. 4: Klavierstück IX (1954/1961) (11:27)
  10. Nr. 7: Klavierstück XI (1956) (12:50)
  11. Aus Nr. 4: Klavierstück X (1954/1961) (25:05)

Credits

  • Karlheinz Stockhausen - primary artist, composed by
  • Richard Paul Lohse - artwork, cover
  • Walburga Popp - lacquer cut by

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