BOULEZ PIERRE Composer, Conductor, Enigma

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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 be heard alongside the gorgeous ultra-modernist exoticism of ‘Le Marteau sans maître’ and ‘Pli selon pli’. These breathtakingly ambitious works are complemented by the first recordings of Boulez as conductor, made at the Domaine musical, a society he formed in Paris during the mid- ‘50s to provide a platform both for modernist pieces by the likes of Webern, Messiaen and Stockhausen and works which had played a vital role in the evolution of music by such composers as Debussy and Bartok. As a conductor Boulez flew high and fast, engaged as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic and as chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra by William Glock, Controller of Music at the corporation, and fervent new music enthusiast: “Boulez’s ear was fabulous. It was as though he was attached by a hundred strings to every member of the orchestra.” “Pierre Boulez was arguably the single dominant figure of the classical musical world through the second half of the 20th century and beyond. Without his compositions, his legacy of recordings as a conductor, his writings on music and his administrative skill and drive, the musical scene today would be of a quite different order.” Roger Nichols “Boulez exemplified the ethos of his generation. Cool, brutal, elegant, fiery, he established a kind of International Style in music, and propagated it in polemical writings and through institutional networks. As a conductor, he was an exacting, absorbing interpreter of the advanced styles he favoured.” Alex Ross: The Magus – Pierre Boulez’s Fiery Career. Frank Zappa of The Mothers Of Invention bought his first Boulez album in twelfth grade. He is listed as an influence on the cover of ‘Freak Out!’ (1966) under the heading “These People Have Contributed Materially In Many Ways To Make Our Music What It Is. Please Do Not Hold It Against Them.”

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Boulez, Pierre
Composer, Conductor, Enigma

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1. Sonatine For Flute and Piano, Op. 1 (1946; Revised 1949) Sev
2. (1948) Yvonne Loriod: Piano
3. Extremement Rapide (Extremely Fast) 3 Lent (Slow)
4. Modere, Presque Vif (Moderate, Almost Lively)
5. Vif (Lively)
6. Modere
7. Lent
8. Vif
9. Polyphonie X (Part 1)
10. Etude 1 Sur Un Son
11. Etude 2 Sur Un Accord De Sept Sons
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1. Complainte Du Lezard Amoureux
2. La Sorgue (Chanson Pour Yvonne)
3. Premier Mouvement
4. Deuxihme Mouvement
5. Troisihme Mouvement
6. Avant "L'artisanat Furieux"
7. Commentaire I De "Bourreaux De Solitude"
8. "L'artisanat Furieux"
9. Commentaire Ii De "Bourreaux De Solitude"
10. "Bel Edifice Et Les Pressentiments", Double
11. "Bourreaux De Solitude"
12. Aprhs "L'artisanat Furieux"
13. Commentaire Iii De "Bourreaux De Solitude"
14. Bel Edifice Et Les Pressentiments Double
15. La Symphonie Mecanique Musique Concrete, For a Film By Jean
16. Poesie Pour Pouvoir (Poems For Power), For Orchestra and Tap
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1. Pli Selon Pli: No. 2, Improvisation I Sur Mallarme
2. Pli Selon Pli: No. 3, Improvisation Ii Sur Mallarme Eva Mari
3. Tombeau a La Memoire Du Prince Max Egon Zu F|Rstenberg (1959
4. Chapitre I
5. Chapitre Ii / Version 1
6. Chapitre Ii / Version 2
7. Kontra-Punkte For Ten Instruments, Op. 1 (1952-1953)
8. Ruhig Schreitend
9. Variationen
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1. Concertino For Twelve Instruments (Arrangement of the Origin
2. Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920, Version 1947)
3. Integrales For Orchestra and Percussion (1923-1925)
4. Serenata 1 For Flute and Fourteen Instruments (1957)
5. Incontri, For Twenty-Four Instruments Orchestre Du Domaine M
6. Zeitmasse (Time Measures), For Five Woodwinds Op.5 (1956)
7. Ouverture. Allegretto. Sehr Flott
8. Tanzschritte
9. Thema Mit Variationen
10. Gigue