Instrumental, Boulez (composer)
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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... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2019, Editor's Choice
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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... — More…
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Fray's debut is marked by an imaginative collation, Bach and Boulez, played with vibrant imagination. He pushes the boundaries but resists the merely quirky. Impeccable technique allows him... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Newcomer of the Year
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Boulez: Répons & Dialogue de L'Ombre Double
RecommendedAlain Damiens (clarinet)
Ensemble InterContemporain, Pierre Boulez
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Grammy Awards, 42nd Awards (1999), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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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... — More…
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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. — More…
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Building a Library, February 2018, Also Recommended
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Maurizio Pollini plays Prokofiev, Boulez, Webern and Stravinsky
RecommendedMaurizio Pollini (piano)
Perfection needs to be pursued so that you can forget about it. Pollini's Petrushka movements are almost inhumanly accurate and fast; but what comes across is an exhilarating sense of abandon,... — More…
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Boulez: ... explosante-fixe…
RecommendedPierre-Laurent Aimard & Florent Boffard (piano)
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez
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Grammy Awards, 39th Awards (1996), Best Chamber Music Recording
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A superb tribute comprising live recordings of solo and chamber pieces…Le Marteau sans maître [is] conducted with age-defying vigour by Boulez himself and exquisitely sung by Hilary Summers…Dérive... — More…
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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