Our guest today on the programme is a distinguished and versatile conductor – widely recognised for his expertise in ...

Two centenary concerts in New York measured the enfant terrible’s influence — and how he lives on at the razor’s edge of generative technology ...

Pierre Boulez' best-known work, Le Marteau sans Maitre (Hammer Without a Master), was first performed for a public of more than musical specialists at the 1955 festival in Aix-en-Provence.

This concert by the London Symphony Orchestra had the appearance of a dual celebratory function, marking as it did both the centenary of Pierre Boulez, one of the towering figures of music in the ...

The visionary conductor and composer Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) was associated with the BBC for nearly 60 years: from an appearance at the Concert Hall of Broadcasting House in 1957 for a ...

Despite having made countless albums throughout his career, there was one album that Frank Zappa had always wanted to make with his favourite conductor.

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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Pierre Boulez. He composed Rituel in memory of his friend Bruno Maderna. Adams’s snappily-named Slonimsky’s Earbox is also an “in memoriam” ...

Boulez may be notorious for applying dodecaphonic principles rigorously to dynamics, duration and timbre as well as pitch. Yet in Éclat (1965) he paradoxically introduced an element of chance by ...

Boulez studied with Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire and then with Andrée Vaurabourg (Honegger’s wife) and René Leibowitz. He developed an interest in 12-tone composition. Major early scores ...

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