Set for launch on February 7, a brand new boxset Boulez: The Composer, celebrates the profession of the influential French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez.
This complete new assortment, produced to mark the composer’s centenary in 2025, brings collectively the works thought of by the composer as sufficiently achieved, in a single boxed set numbering 13CDs. It has additionally been up to date with new paintings.
Created solely below the composer’s supervision, the boxset consists of the selection of performances, with this version presenting a survey of the works he thought of consultant of his compositional artwork.
Boulez: The Composer consists of recordings by Boulez himself; Pierre-Laurent Aimard; Alfons and Aloys Kontarsky; Christine Schäfer; Severino Gazzelloni; David Tudor; Jeanne-Marie Conquer; Roger Désormière; Ensemble intercontemporain; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Orchestre Nationwide de al RTF; and plenty of extra. It additionally includes a disc of historic recordings of “Le Marteau sans maître,” the 1950 premiere of “Le Soleil des eaux” and the “Sonatine.”
As well as, the gathering features a disc with an unique interview with the composer by musicologist Claude Samuel. It is also accompanied with a 252-page booklet.
Initially hailing from Montbrison within the Loire division of east-central France, Pierre Boulez was additionally some of the outstanding conductors of his era. In a profession lasting greater than sixty years, he was music director of the New York Philharmonic, chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and principal visitor conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra.
He made frequent appearances with many different orchestras, together with the Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic. He was identified for his performances of the music of the primary half of the 20th century—together with Debussy and Ravel, Stravinsky and Bartók, and the Second Viennese Faculty—in addition to that of his contemporaries, similar to Ligeti, Berio and Carter. His work within the opera home included the manufacturing of Wagner’s Ring cycle for the centenary of the Bayreuth Competition, and the world premiere of the three-act model of Berg’s opera Lulu. As Boulez: The Composer reveals, his recorded legacy is intensive.
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