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Four-disc box set presentation is an anthology of Pierre Boulez's early compositions; complex, radically new and quite ferociously uncompromising. Such fearless, notoriously demanding works as the second Piano Sonata may…
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Caroline Potter
Exploring the emotional and cultural influences on Pierre Boulez's early works as well as the role surrealism and French culture of the 1930s and 40s played in shaping his radical…
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Aimard Pierre Laurent
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Piano Concerto for the left hand in D\nPiano Concerto in G\nMiroirs (Solo Piano)
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Bpo Boulez
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Boulez
Pierre Boulez
Joan Peyser
To Boulez and Beyond describes music in the 20th century through the lives and works of its creators, from Mahler and Wagner through the Second Viennese School, from Varese to…
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Joseph Salem
Pierre Boulez: The Formative Years mixes a biographical journey with the musical development of the central twentieth-century composer Pierre Boulez. The book is chronologized into three parts, each with a…
Boulez Pierre
Music Lessons marks the first publication in English of a groundbreaking group of writings by French composer Pierre Boulez, his yearly lectures prepared for the College de France between 1976…
Roger Nichols
Roger Nichols has created an engrossing chronicle of French music for the 150-year period from Berlioz to Boulez. He begins with Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique and ends with his obituary of…
Pierre Boulez ,The Cleveland Orchestra
In a career spanning close to 70 years Pierre Boulez was always at the forefront of classical music. This 8 CD box set represents just a small part of his…
Various
The complete works of one of the greatest contemporary composers have been brought together for the first time in a 13-CD set.
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim
Between May 1949 and August 1954 the composers Pierre Boulez and John Cage exchanged a series of remarkable letters which reflect on their own music and the music and culture…
Edward Campbell (University of Aberdeen)
Tracing the changing musical, philosophical and intellectual currents of thought which inform Boulez’s work, this study enhances understanding of post-war modernist music and Boulez’s distinctive approach to composition. Campbell investigates…
Pierre Boulez is acknowledged as one of the most important composers in contemporary musical life. This collection explores his works, influence, reception and legacy, featuring analysis of previously unpublished material…
Salem
Lev Koblyakov
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Cleveland Orchestra,London Symphony Orchestra,Pierre Boulez
“Much to admire in the sheer beauty and finesse of the orchestral playing” – The Penguin Guide
Jean Vermeil,Jean Vermeil
Pierre Boulez has held conducting positions with the BBC Symphony Orchestra as well as the orchestra of Chicago, Cleveland and New York. These interviews give us his views, wit, wisdom…
This edition includes an analysis of Le Marteau sans Maitre , and examines the development of serial music throughout the 20th century. Koblyakov seeks to reveal Boulez’s compositional processes and…
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Cleveland Orchestra
Ligeti:
Sonata for Cello solo
Matt Haimovitz
Six Bagatelles for wind quintet
Jacques Zoon, Douglas Boyd, Richard Hosford, James Sommerville, Matthew Wilkie, Claudio Abbado
String Quartet No. 1 ‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
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Bryn Julson Phyllis Bbc So Boulez
Peter O'Hagan
Pierre Boulez’s first piano pieces date from his youth, prior to his studies in Paris with Messiaen, and his subsequent meteoric rise to international acclaim as the leader of the…
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Jonathan Goldman (University of Victoria, British Columbia)
Focusing on Pierre Boulez’s most recent works and writings, this study places the influential composer in a new light, avoiding the usual narrow emphasis on his early period. It includes…
Biret Idil
Ponthus Marc
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Martin Iddon (University of Leeds)
The Darmstadt New Music Courses were the most significant institutional bastion of new music in post-war Europe. Yet until now there has been no full-length coverage of them in English…
