- Artist:
- Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez: The Composer
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Release date: 28 February 2025
Article Number: 513940000
To mark the centenary of the birth of the great composer, conductor and music theorist Pierre Boulez, this impressive 13-CD box set (first released in 2013) is reissued in a new updated artwork as a Limited Edition.
‘The Composer’ offers an overview of those works that Boulez considered representative of his compositional art and includes a 252-page booklet with comprehensive notes on each work and a commentary by the composer.
Together with the newly released 84-CD box set ‘Pierre Boulez: The Conductor’ - with complementary artwork - these two editions are a tribute to a musical icon who was a pioneer in all areas of musical creation and a thought leader of profound and penetrating originality.
Created entirely under the composer's supervision, this edition includes 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 National de al RTF; and many more.
Includes a disc of historical recordings of ‘Le Marteau sans maître’, the 1950 premiere of ‘Le Soleil des eaux’ and the ‘Sonatine’ plus a disc with an exclusive interview with the composer. A worthy homage to the great composer Boulez for his centenary.
Tracklisting:
CD 1:
Douze Notations, pour piano
Sonatine, pour flûte et piano
1ère Sonate, pour piano
Le Visage Nuptial, 3ème version
CD 2:
2ème Sonate, pour piano
Livre pour quatuor, version 1962
CD 3:
Structures Livre 1, pour deux pianos
Le Soleil des Eaux, 4ème version 1965
Le Marteau sans maître
CD 4:
Pli selon pli, version définitive 1989, pour soprano et orchestre
CD 5:
3ème Sonate, pour piano
Structures Livre 2, pour deux pianos
Figures, Doubles, Prismes, 2e version 1968
CD 6:
Eclat-Multiples
Domaines, pour clarinette solo
Domaines, pour clarinette et groupes instrumentaux
Improvisé - pour le Dr Kalmus, pour cinq instruments
CD 7:
cummings ist der dichter, 2ème version 1986
Livre pour cordes
Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna
Messagesquisse, sur le nom de Paul Sacher
Notations I-IV & VII
Mémoriale (...explosante-fixe... Originel)
CD 8:
...explosante-fixe... 4ème version 1995
Anthèmes 1, pour violon solo
Anthèmes 2 pour violon et dispositif électronique (1997)
CD 9:
Répons
Dialogue de l'ombre double
CD 10:
Dérive I
Dérive II
CD 11:
Incises
sur Incises (1996-1998)
Une page d'éphéméride
CD 12 (Bonus: historical recordings):
Le Marteau sans maître
Le Soleil des Eaux, 2e version 1950
Sonatine, pour flûte et piano
CD 13:
Interview de Pierre Boulez par Claude Samuel
