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Pierre Boulez’s ongoing Mahler cycle has been the source of both amazement and consternation. That this ultra-modernist composer could take on these ultra-romantic works and
This “Panorama” entry isn’t bad by any means, but it’s not quite as good as it could have been. Karajan’s Boléro doesn’t hold a candle
Wieland Wagner’s stripped-down, minimalist Bayreuth Festival staging of his grandfather’s Parsifal finally met its aural equivalent when Pierre Boulez first conducted the opera in 1966,
Pierre Boulez (b. 1925) arguably is the greatest advocate of modernism the music world has ever seen. He studied under Olivier Messiaen who already had
Pierre Boulez takes a fresh approach to Mahler’s much-recorded Fourth Symphony. Eschewing the received Mahlerian style, Boulez instead views this echt-18th century work composed at
Although these live concerto performances don’t add new repertoire to Clifford Curzon’s slender discography, they reveal an unfettered, spontaneous side to this sensitive artist that
In some ways, Alexander Scriabin is a hard composer to take seriously, if only because the gap between his pretensions and his achievements is so
