Ensemble InterContemporain

We Only Wish: A Xenakis Swan-Song

David Hurwitz

From the PC of the deceased Iannis Xenakis, Pierre Boulez […]

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Big Boxes: Boulez’s Exceptional (First) Ravel Recordings

David Hurwitz

Pierre Boulez remade most of this music for Deutsche Grammophon,

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Boulez Complete Works: A Big Box Of Punishment

David Hurwitz

Thirteen discs of this stuff is torture–27 works that graphically

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Big Boxes: Boulez Does Schoenberg on the Cheap

David Hurwitz

It’s tax time, so I figured it made sense to

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CD From Hell: Boulez Explosante Dreck

David Hurwitz

Ah, the delicious irony of it all! Here we have

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Boulez: Sur Incises, etc./Boulez

David Hurwitz

Let’s not kid ourselves: Boulez’s music is not easy, isn’t meant to be, and never will be popular. It’s useful to keep this in mind

COMPLETE WEBERN

Jed Distler

Those who are familiar with Pierre Boulez’s earlier “Complete Webern” on Sony will notice that his new Deutsche Grammophon edition contains six discs to Sony’s

Schoenberg: Choral works/Accentus

David Vernier

You never get the impression that Arnold Schoenberg was a happy composer, and nowhere is the lack of joy more evident than in his choral

Pli selon Pli on DG C

ClassicsToday

Take away the dangerous radical politics, the embarrassingly limiting declarations of who can and cannot compose, and the legend of the enfant terrible that has