Maurizio Pollini. Piano.
Klavierstück V was originally a study concentrating on flamboyantly spaced groups of grace notes centred around long “central tones“. Stockhausen drastically revised and expanded this early version, bringing the grace-note groups into less extreme registers, then using the result as a background for an entirely new set of superimposed figurations based on series quite unrelated to the original material . This final version was premiered in Darmstadt by Marcelle Mercenier, together