Avant-Garde Piano — Twelve-Tone Music, Serialism & Atonal Piano (Webern, Satie)

Avant-garde piano music from the twelve-tone tradition and beyond: serialism, dodecaphony and atonal piano pieces by Anton Webern, Erik Satie and Otto Joachim, alongside my own 12-tone compositions. Recorded in Berlin. At the center are Anton Webern and the Second Viennese School. His Kinderstück and the posthumous Klavierstück from 1925 show twelve-tone music at its most concentrated: a handful of notes, each placed with complete precision, and silence doing as much work as sound. None of these pieces runs long, and none of them needs to. Around Webern are pieces that pursue the same questions by other means. Erik Satie's Vexations, the endlessly repeated fragment that pointed toward minimalism decades before it had a name, appears here as a condensed ritual edit for piano and analog synth. "Bless You" by the German-Canadian composer Otto Joachim is reimagined as an occult reconstruction. Then there are my own pieces: early twelve-tone studies such as Klavierfragment03, and serial experiments that carry a tone row into electronic territory. For listeners of modern classical and contemporary piano music who want to go further than the familiar repertoire: twelve-tone technique, serial music, atonality and the experimental piano of the 20th century and after. New recordings are added as they're finished. #avantgardepiano #twelvetone #serialism