Friedrich Gulda & Limpe Fuchs: Consonanza Personale

"For me it was really necessary to leave traditional music behind," says performance artist Limpe Fuchs, and her decades of exploration at the outer limits of sound made her a natural collaborator for Friedrich Gulda – the maverick Austrian pianist and provocateur who founded the Munich Klaviersommer as a meeting place of the most innovative musical minds. In 1986, in this one-off exploration of their shared creativity – or as Gulda called, it their "consonanza personale" – both artists transcend the conventions of their classical roles (Gulda as pianist, Fuchs as percussionist) to create a wholly original, semi-improvised musical experience.