This album's release coincides with the opening of the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, a concert hall designed by Frank Gehry within the Barenboim-Said Akademie.
Compositional Technique
Le Marteau sans maître (The Hammer Unmastered) by Boulez features six instruments creating a disorienting world of shock, interruption, and restless pulsation, with the solo singer navigating poems by René Char.
Compositional Technique
Boulez's Mémoriale (1985/1993) is based on a seven-note melody, typically drawn from an earlier piece, that is spun into transformations by the solo flute.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Pierre Boulez often kept his music in flux, reconceiving old compositions or finding new scope for elemental material in new scores.
Composer Biography
The association between conductor Daniel Barenboim and composer Pierre Boulez began in 1964, when Barenboim was a soloist in Bartók's First Concerto under Boulez's direction.
Compositional Technique
In Anthèmes 2 for violin, digital circuitry provides a second level of transformation, giving the violin a new harmonic aura and repositioning its sound in space.
Compositional Technique
Boulez used a set of six notes derived from the name of Swiss patron Paul Sacher (E flat, A, C, B, E, D) as an "idée fixe" in several works, including Messagesquisse.
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