CD, Boulez (composer)
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The Diotimas spent considerable time with Boulez to understand his thinking, and it shows: the sparse passages in the opening movements breathe unencumbered, the shivering development is scattered... —
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Drawing on the insights shared by Boulez when she studied with him, she unleashes a spectacular, commanding performance that sets the keyboard, and the air around it, aquiver with its intensity.... —
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New. Barenboim conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The Complete Warner Classics Edition
Daniel Barenboim, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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37 CDs
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Special offer. Notations & Sketches
Solo piano works by Boulez, Dutilleux and Messiaen
Alexander Soares (piano)
Although most of these pieces have been collated on various anthologies of French piano music, few of them can match this new release in its balanced conception or consistency of execution…Soares... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2019, Editor's Choice
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Boulez: Sur Incises, Messagesquisse and Anthèmes 2
RecommendedEnsemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez
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Gramophone Awards, 2001, Winner - Contemporary
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The title 'Caprices' belies the serious rapport which Arditti nurtured over decades with Carter, Nunes, Boulez and Sciarrino…The works, too, are hardly whimsical but represent a quarter-century... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Boulez: Le marteau sans maître, Éclat & Dialogue de l'ombre double
RecommendedKatalin Károlyi (mezzo), Pascal Gallois (bassoon)
International Contemporary Ensemble
Here is an American ensemble who show that nothing is impossible…one understands at last what the young Boulez heard in his head. Katalin Karolyi adds both expression and ferocity to the mix. —
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Building a Library, February 2018, Also Recommended
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Van Raat styles his excellent sequence as “rarities”, but it’s no idle sampling. Centrepiece is the premiere recording of an early, withheld and rather grand Boulez work, his Prélude, Toccata... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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