Pierre Boulez – The Composer (DGG Edition)

Contents

Boulez: Notations /Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)

Boulez: Sonatine for flute and piano /Sophie Cherrier (flute), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)

Boulez: Piano Sonata No. 1 /Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)

Boulez: Le Visage Nuptial, 3è Version /Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano), Elizabeth Laurence (mezzo-soprano), BBC Symphony Orchestra & Pierre Boulez

Boulez: Piano Sonata No. 2 /Maurizio Pollini (piano)

Boulez: Livre pour Quatuor – version 1962 /Quatuor Parisii (chamber ensemble)

Boulez: Structures for 2 Pianos, Book 1 /Aloys Kontarsky (piano), Alfons Kontarsky (piano)

Boulez: Le Soleil des eaux, 4è version /Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano), BBC Symphony Orchestra & Pierre Boulez

Boulez: Le Marteau sans maître /Hilary Summers (contralto), Ensemble Intercontemporain (chamber ensemble) & Pierre Boulez

Boulez: Pli selon pli /Christine Schäfer (soprano), Pierre Boulez

Boulez: Piano Sonata No. 3 /Paavali Jumppanen (piano)

Boulez: Formant 3: Constellation – Miroir /Paavali Jumppanen (piano)

Boulez: Structures for 2 Pianos, Book 2 /Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Florent Boffard (piano)

Boulez: Figures-doubles-prismes /BBC Symphony Orchestra & Pierre Boulez

Boulez: Eclat /Ensemble Intercontemporain (chamber ensemble) & Pierre Boulez

Boulez: Domaines /Emmanuelle Ophele (flute), Alain Billard (clarinet), Sébastien Vichard (piano), Odile Auboin (viola), Eric Maria Couturier (cello)

Boulez: Cummings ist der Dichter (Deuxième version, 1986) BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers & Pierre Boulez

Boulez: Livre pour cordes /Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique De Vienne & Pierre Boulez

Boulez: Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna /BBC Symphony Orchestra & Pierre Boulez

Boulez: Messagesquisse /Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Ensemble de Violoncelles (chamber ensemble) & Pierre Boulez

Boulez: Notations /Ensemble Modern (chamber ensemble) & Pierre Boulez

Boulez: … explosante-fixe… /Sophie Cherrier (flute), Emmanuelle Ophele (flute), Ensemble Intercontemporain (chamber ensemble) & Pierre Boulez

Boulez: Anthèmes /Jeanne-Marie Conquer (violin)

Boulez: Anthèmes 2 /Hae-Sun Kang (violin), Andrew Gerzso

Boulez: Répons /Ensemble Intercontemporain (chamber ensemble), Andrew Gerzso & Pierre Boulez

Boulez: Dialogue de L’Ombre Double /Alan Damiens, Andrew Gerzso

Boulez: Dérive I /Ensemble Intercontemporain (chamber ensemble) & Pierre Boulez

Boulez: Dérive II /Ensemble Intercontemporain (chamber ensemble) & Pierre Boulez

Boulez: Incises /Dimitri Vassilakis

Boulez: Sur Incises /Dimitri Vassilakis, Hideki Nagano (piano), Florent Boffard (piano), Frédérique Cambreling (harp), Sandine Chatron (harp), Marianne Le Mentec (harp), Vincent Bauer (electronics), Daniel Ciampolini, Michel Cerutti, Ensemble Intercontemporain (chamber ensemble) & Pierre Boulez

Boulez: Une page d’éphéméride /Hideki Nagano (piano)

Boulez: Le Marteau sans maître /Jeanne Deroubaix, Solistes du Domaine Musical (chamber ensemble) & Pierre Boulez

Boulez: Le Soleil des Eaux /Roger Désormière, Irène Joachim, Joseph Peyron, Pierre Mollet, Choeur de la RTF, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Orchestre National de France

Boulez: Sonatine for flute and piano /Severino Gazzelloni (flute), David Tudor (piano)

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.