The Well‐Tuned Piano 81 X 25 6:17:50–11:18:59 PM NYC

The Well-Tuned Piano 81 X 25 6:17:50–11:18:59 PM NYC (1987) documents La Monte Young's extended, live realization of his long-form piano work. Performed on a piano specially retuned in just intonation, the music unfolds as sustained drones and finely graded intervallic relationships that emphasize microtonal detail and slow harmonic drift. The recording exemplifies Young's approach to duration, timbre, and tuning and is often cited as a key work linking minimalism and drone-oriented strands of modern classical practice.