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Disc: 1

1	Fantasque - Modéré - Pierre-Laurent Aimard
2	TRÈS Vif - Pierre-Laurent Aimard
3	Assez Lent - Pierre-Laurent Aimard
4	Rythmique - Pierre-Laurent Aimard
5	Doux Et Improvisé - Pierre-Laurent Aimard
6	Rapide - Pierre-Laurent Aimard
7	Hiératique - Pierre-Laurent Aimard
8	Modéré Jusqu'à TRÈS Vif - Pierre-Laurent Aimard
9	Lointain - Calme - Pierre-Laurent Aimard
10	Mécanique Er TRÈS Sec - Pierre-Laurent Aimard
11	Scintillant - Pierre-Laurent Aimard
12	Lent - Puissant Et Âpre - Pierre-Laurent Aimard
13	Sonatine Pour Flûte Et Piano - Sophie Cherrier, Pierre-Laurent Aimard
14	1. Lent - Beaucoup Plus Allant - Pierre-Laurent Aimard
15	2. Assez Large - Rapide - Pierre-Laurent Aimard
16	Conduite - Pierre Boulez, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Elizabeth Laurence
17	Gravité (L'emmuré) - Pierre Boulez, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Elizabeth Laurence
18	Le Visage Nuptial - Pierre Boulez, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Elizabeth Laurence
19	Evadné - Pierre Boulez, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Elizabeth Laurence
20	Post-Scriptum - Pierre Boulez, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Elizabeth Laurence

Disc: 2

1	Extrèmement Rapide - Maurizio Pollini
2	Lent - Maurizio Pollini
3	Modéré, Presque Vif - Maurizio Pollini
4	Vif - Maurizio Pollini
5	I a - Quatuor Parisii
6	I B - Quatuor Parisii
7	II - Quatuor Parisii
8	III a - Quatuor Parisii
9	III B - Quatuor Parisii
10	III C - Quatuor Parisii
11	V - Quatuor Parisii
12	VI - Quatuor Parisii

Disc: 3

1	1Er Mouvement - Aloys Kontarsky, Alfons Kontarsky
2	2Eme Mouvement - Aloys Kontarsky, Alfons Kontarsky
3	3Eme Mouvement - Aloys Kontarsky, Alfons Kontarsky
4	Complainte Du Lézard Amoureux - Pierre Boulez, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Phyllis Bryn-Julson
5	La Sorgue (Chanson Pour Yvonne) - Pierre Boulez, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Phyllis Bryn-Julson
6	Avant "L'artisanat Furieux" - Hilary Summers, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez
7	Commentaire I de "Bourreaux de Solitude" - Hilary Summers, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez
8	"L'artisanat Furieux" - Hilary Summers, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez
9	Commentaire II de "Bourreaux de Solitude" - Hilary Summers, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez
10	"Bel Édifice Et Les Pressentiments" Version Première - Hilary Summers, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez
11	"Bourreaux de Solitude" - Hilary Summers, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez
12	Après "L'artisanat Furieux" - Hilary Summers, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez
13	Commentaire III de "Bourreaux de Solitude" - Hilary Summers, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez
14	"Bel Édifice Et Les Pressentiments", Double - Hilary Summers, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez

Disc: 4

1	No. 1 Don (Version Nouvelle 1989) [Je T'apporte L'enfant D'une Nuit D'idumée" - Christine Schäfer, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez
2	No. 2 Improvisation I Sur Mallarmé (1958/62) Le Vierge, Le Vivace Et Le Bel Aujourd'hui - Christine Schäfer, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez
3	No. 3 Improvisation II Sur Mallarmé (1957) Une Dentelle S'abolit - Christine Schäfer, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez
4	No. 4 Improvisation III Sur Mallarmé (1959/84) À la Nue Accablante Tu - Christine Schäfer, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez
5	No. 5 Tombeau (1959-62) ["Une Peu Profond Ruisseau Calomnié la Mort"] - Christine Schäfer, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez

Disc: 5

1	Parenthèse - Paavali Jumppanen
2	Glose - Paavali Jumppanen
3	Commentaire - Paavali Jumppanen
4	Texte - Paavali Jumppanen
5	Mélange - Paavali Jumppanen
6	Points 3 - Paavali Jumppanen
7	Blocs II - Paavali Jumppanen
8	Points 2 - Paavali Jumppanen
9	Blocs I - Paavali Jumppanen
10	Points 1 - Paavali Jumppanen
11	Chapitre I - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Florent Boffard
12	Chapitre II (Pièces 1-2, Encarts 1-4, Textes 1-6) - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Florent Boffard
13	Figures, Doubles, Prismes, 2Ème Version 1968 - Pierre Boulez, BBC Symphony Orchestra

Disc: 6

1	Eclat, Pour Quinze Instruments - Pierre Boulez, Ensemble Intercontemporain
2	Multiples, Pour Vingt-Cinq Instruments (Inachevé) - Pierre Boulez, Ensemble Intercontemporain
3	Domaines - Alain Damiens
4	Première Partie - Diego Masson, Musique Vivante, Michel Portal
5	Deuxième Partie - Diego Masson, Musique Vivante, Michel Portal
6	Improvisé - Pour Le Dr Kalmus - Emmanuelle Ophele, Alain Billard, Sébastien Vichard, Odile Auboin, Eric Maria Couturier

Disc: 7

1	Cummings Ist Der Dichter, 2È Version 1986 - Pierre Boulez, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers
2	Livre Pour Cordes - Pierre Boulez, Orchestre Philharmonique de Vienne
3	Rituel in Memoriam Bruno Maderna - Pierre Boulez, BBC Symphony Orchestra
4	TRÈS Lent - Ciff.1 - Jean-Guihen Queyras, Ensemble de Violoncelles de Paris, Pierre Boulez
5	TRÈS Rapide - Ciff.4 - Jean-Guihen Queyras, Ensemble de Violoncelles de Paris, Pierre Boulez
6	Sans Tempo Libre - Ciff.8 - Jean-Guihen Queyras, Ensemble de Violoncelles de Paris, Pierre Boulez
7	Aussi Rapide Que Possible - Ciff.10 - Jean-Guihen Queyras, Ensemble de Violoncelles de Paris, Pierre Boulez
8	I. Fantasque - Modéré - Pierre Boulez, Ensemble Modern Orchestra
9	VII. Hiératique - Lent - Pierre Boulez, Ensemble Modern Orchestra
10	IV. Rythmique - Pierre Boulez, Ensemble Modern Orchestra
11	III. TRÈS Modéré - Pierre Boulez, Ensemble Modern Orchestra
12	II. TRÈS Vif - Strident - Pierre Boulez, Ensemble Modern Orchestra
13	Memoriale (... Explosante Fixe... Originel) - Pierre Boulez, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Sophie Cherrier

Disc: 8

1	... Explosante-Fixe... - Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez, Sophie Cherrier, Emmanuelle Ophele, Pierre Andre Valade
2	Anthèmes I - Jeanne-Marie Conquer
3	Lent - /I Libre - Hae-Sun Kang, Andrew Gerzso
4	1. TRÈS Lent - I/Ii Libre - Hae-Sun Kang, Andrew Gerzso
5	2. Rapide, Dynamique - Ii/Iii Libre - Hae-Sun Kang, Andrew Gerzso
6	3. Lent - Iii/Iv Libre - Hae-Sun Kang, Andrew Gerzso
7	4. Agité - Iv/V Libre - Hae-Sun Kang, Andrew Gerzso
8	5. TRÉS Lent - V/Vi Libre - Hae-Sun Kang, Andrew Gerzso
9	Vi-1 Allant - Hae-Sun Kang, Andrew Gerzso
10	Vi-2 Calme, Régulier - Hae-Sun Kang, Andrew Gerzso
11	Vi-3 Calme - Hae-Sun Kang, Andrew Gerzso

Disc: 9

1	Introduction - Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez
2	Section 1 - Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez, Andrew Gerzso
3	Section 2 - Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez, Andrew Gerzso
4	Section 3 - Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez, Andrew Gerzso
5	Section 4 - Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez, Andrew Gerzso
6	Section 5 - Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez, Andrew Gerzso
7	Section 6 - Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez, Andrew Gerzso
8	Section 7 - Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez, Andrew Gerzso
9	Section 8 - Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez, Andrew Gerzso
10	Coda - Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez, Andrew Gerzso
11	Sigle Initial - Alain Damiens, Andrew Gerzso
12	Strophe I - Alain Damiens, Andrew Gerzso
13	Transition I À II - Alain Damiens, Andrew Gerzso
14	Strophe II - Alain Damiens, Andrew Gerzso
15	Transition II À III - Alain Damiens, Andrew Gerzso
16	Strophe III - Alain Damiens, Andrew Gerzso
17	Transition III À IV - Alain Damiens, Andrew Gerzso
18	Strophe IV - Alain Damiens, Andrew Gerzso
19	Transition IV À V - Alain Damiens, Andrew Gerzso
20	Strophe V - Alain Damiens, Andrew Gerzso
21	Transition V À VI - Alain Damiens, Andrew Gerzso
22	Strophe VI - Alain Damiens, Andrew Gerzso
23	Sigle Final - Alain Damiens, Andrew Gerzso

Disc: 10

1	Dérive 1 - Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez
2	Dérive 2 - Pierre Boulez, Ensemble Intercontemporain

Disc: 11

1	Incises - Dimitri Vassilakis
2	Moment I - Dimitri Vassilakis, Hideki Nagano, Florent Boffard, Frédérique Cambreling, Sandrine Chatron, Marianne Le Mentec, Vincent Bauer, Daniel Ciampolini, Michel Cerutti, Pierre Boulez
3	Moment II - Dimitri Vassilakis, Hideki Nagano, Florent Boffard, Frédérique Cambreling, Sandrine Chatron, Marianne Le Mentec, Vincent Bauer, Daniel Ciampolini, Michel Cerutti, Pierre Boulez
4	Une Page D'éphémeride - Hideki Nagano

Disc: 12

1	Le Marteau Sans Maitre: 1. Avant L'artisanat Furieux - Jeanne Deroubaix, Instrumental Ensemble, Pierre Boulez
2	Le Marteau Sans Maitre: 2. Commentaire I de Bourreaux de Solitude - Jeanne Deroubaix, Instrumental Ensemble, Pierre Boulez
3	Le Marteau Sans Maitre: 3. L'artisanat Furieux - Jeanne Deroubaix, Instrumental Ensemble, Pierre Boulez
4	Le Marteau Sans Maitre: 4. Commentaire II de Bourreaux de Solitude - Jeanne Deroubaix, Instrumental Ensemble, Pierre Boulez
5	Le Marteau Sans Maitre: 5. Bel Edifice Et Les Pressentiments - Jeanne Deroubaix, Instrumental Ensemble, Pierre Boulez
6	Le Marteau Sans Maitre: 6. Bourreaux de Solitude - Jeanne Deroubaix, Instrumental Ensemble, Pierre Boulez
7	Le Marteau Sans Maitre: 7. Avant L'artisanat Furieux - Jeanne Deroubaix, Instrumental Ensemble, Pierre Boulez
8	Le Marteau Sans Maitre: 8. Commentaire III de Bourreaux de Solitude - Jeanne Deroubaix, Instrumental Ensemble, Pierre Boulez
9	Le Marteau Sans Maitre: 9. Bel Edifice Et Les Pressentiments Double - Jeanne Deroubaix, Instrumental Ensemble, Pierre Boulez
10	Complainte Du Lézard Amoureux - Roger Desormière, Choeur de la RTF, Orchestre National de la RTF
11	La Sorgue (Chanson Pour Yvonne) - Roger Desormière, Choeur de la RTF, Orchestre National de la RTF, Irène Joachim, Joseph Peyron, Pierre Mollet
12	Sonatine Pour Flûte Et Piano - Severino Gazzelloni

Disc: 13

1	Interview de Pierre Boulez (Par Claude Samuel) - Partie 1 - Pierre Boulez
2	Interview de Pierre Boulez (Par Claude Samuel) - Partie 2 - Pierre Boulez
3	Interview de Pierre Boulez (Par Claude Samuel) - Partie 3 - Pierre Boulez
4	Interview de Pierre Boulez (Par Claude Samuel) - Partie 4 - Pierre Boulez
5	Interview de Pierre Boulez (Par Claude Samuel) - Partie 5 - Pierre Boulez
6	Interview de Pierre Boulez (Par Claude Samuel) - Partie 6 - Pierre Boulez

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The complete works of one of the greatest contemporary composers have been brought together for the first time in this 13-CD set.

This edition has been completely carried out under the composers supervision, including the choice of recordings, and features world-class performances by Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Maurizio Pollini, Christine Schäfer, Ensemble Intercontemporain and others.

This set features new recordings made especially for this edition, works previously unreleased on CD, and an exclusive interview with the composer.

New recordings made for the edition (world-premieres) Improvise - pour le Dr Kalmus pour piano et quatre instruments
Solistes de l Ensemble Intercontemporain / Recording 2012
Une page d ephemeride pour piano
Hideki Nagano, piano
Recording 2012

Previously unpublished recordings
Derive 2, pour onze instruments
Ensemble Intercontemporain : Pierre Boulez
Live recording 2010

Notations I-IV et VII, pour grand orchestre
Ensemble Modern Orchestra : Pierre Boulez
Live recording 2007

200-page booklet in French and English.

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.92 x 4.84 x 1.73 inches; 1.08 Pounds
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Deutsche Grammophon
Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2013
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ March 6, 2013
Label ‏ : ‎ Deutsche Grammophon
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00BLDHPZS
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 13

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A treasure chest

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2016

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Back in the mid-20th century, Pierre Boulez may not have made a good first impression on music lovers. His brash rejection of the current state of music rang harshly on many ears. Fast-forward to the end of his long career and you must come to a rather different conclusion. His rich conducting career provided insights into such varied composers as Berg, Debussy and Wagner. But his own writing grew in a way that both led and mirrored the greater world of modern composition.

I already had recordings of half the pieces on this set, but decided to listen to the whole collection (again). I was about halfway through when news of Boulez's death reached me. There was a bittersweet feeling to the last hours, knowing there was no more to come.

The piano was always the instrument that took Boulez into new words, and the 3 monumental piano sonatas provide a great illustration. Their technical challenges remain, but the hurdles to listening are long since removed. Even the smaller pieces (such as Incises) provide material for larger developments (Sur Incises). One of my favorites, Derives, begins as a 6-minute sextet. It grew into Derives II at over 20 minutes, and finally into an over 40-minute live performance. This is a pattern that Boulez followed through his life. Seize ground with a small piece and then explore it for larger developments. While the results were different, this approach would have been completely familiar to Haydn or Mozart.

Boulez's ear was like no other and there are dozens of stories that back that up. But it's clear--especially in the large pieces--how true that was. Orchestral textures are always transparent, novel instrumental combinations always seem to work, vocal writing lies beautifully in the tessitura of the singers, and electronics are both novel and familiar.

Boulez was no stranger to rhetoric, and like many composers always provided a mathematical sort of explanation for what he was doing. That may still keep people away from his music. I'm not at all sure if it makes a real difference, since that glorious ear always made the final decision about notes on the page. It's not necessary to read, understand or embrace any of the many principles he espoused to enjoy the music. And there's proof of his own mellowing (relatively) over time. Both his first and final recordings of "Le Marteau" are provided with this set, and both are definitive in different ways. The first recording provides ample proof of the musical revolution Boulez was attempting to begin. The last recording is more sensual, a little slower and gentler. Both are best.

With the passing of Boulez, we've lost another of the lions of post-war music. Boulez, Carter, Dutilleux, Lutoslawski, Ligeti are all gone. Their music and those of their contemporaries still sounds more new and alive that most of what has replaced them. This CD collection is an absolute must-have.

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Transfigured Knight

A Brilliant Compendium Of Boulez’s Oeuvre

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2020

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Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) is considered by many to be one of the most important musicians of the 20th Century. Not only did he have an incredible career as a composer, but his career as a conductor was equally as impressive (and many will remember him probably the most as a conductor). The irony here is Boulez didn’t really want to be a conductor initially and when he did turn to conducting, he had no training whatsoever, which is even more impressive. As a composer, he was quite ahead of the curve and while he could be lumped in with the avant-garde of his generation like Stockhause, Ligeti, Berio, etc., it should be noted that as he aged, his music began to take on many other shapes and forms and while he was a Serialist early on, I would say that his particular compositional style, especially in his ensemble work like "Le Marteau sans maître”, “Sur Incises”, or “Pli selon pli”, demonstrates that Debussy had an influence on him as well. For this listener, he’s like a cross between the Second Viennese School (especially Webern), Stravinsky, and Debussy, but filter through his own unique and unmistakeable aesthetic.

While I won’t even bother to go through the contents of this DG set (which is now sadly out-of-print), let me say if you’re scared of post-WWII music or have an ambivalence towards it, let me say that I think Boulez can help open that door for you. His music isn’t ‘easy’ but so much of it is dependent on fascinating timbres, textures, rhythms, harmonies, and atmosphere that it makes it much more welcoming than say a composer like Xenakis who is pretty much ‘in-your-face’ from the first measure (I’m generalizing here really to make a point). I would say that if you find this set, then don’t hesitate to buy it. If you can’t find it, then there are still some single issues of recordings from this set that are still in-print and should be easier to track down. Just try to get your hands on something and please make sure Boulez is conducting. It really doesn’t get any more authentic than the man himself conducting his own music, especially when he’s one of the greatest conductors that ever lived, but, after listening to a wide array of works from this set, I would say that he also was one of the great composers of the 20th Century.

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Daniel B.

PIERRE BOULEZ: The Voice of Our Time

Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2017

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I bought this set as soon as it became available, which means I have been listening to it for just under three years. And I do mean - "listening to it."
It's not just an archive edition I own out of respect for Boulez's importance as a 20th century composer. For me Boulez, like all classical composers, is a living and frequent presence in my life. I know the difficulty many experience with Modernist music like this: they know how to listen to Schubert's
Eighth, or Beethoven's Sixth, or Mahler's Fourth, but how do you listen to a Boulez work, with its cerebral identity, its focus on painstaking details of composition instead of the Romantic Age sweeping sound, its curious instrumentation. I started listening to Le Marteau sans Maitre fifty one years ago and I am still listening to it. His three early Piano Sonatas are stunning expressions of extreme emotion; his Rituel a somber but deeply felt tribute to Bruno Maderna; his Pli Selon Pli a masterpiece in which he fully inhabited his identification with the great Symbolist poet Mallarme. His last great work Repons is astonishing in its complexity, flexibility, incandescence. It is not at all valedictory. Its freshness of form and sound is immediate and fulfilling. I don't ask myself What does this music of Boulez mean? It is the Music of Our Age: it speaks to us because we are of its time period. It accompanies us through our common life. It is the sound and sense of our era. That is reason enough to listen again and again.

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Ana Clemente Costa

This is very good Thank you for your prompt solution

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 23, 2018

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ビブリ男

慣れれば面白い

Reviewed in Japan on May 17, 2021

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ゲンダイオンガクの(一方の)極に鎮座する(？)大作曲家が最後に自作として遺す作品を選んだ全集だけあって、内容はとても充実していると思います。クールでクリスタルのような響きに満ちていて、慣れると「きれい」という感じに聞こえてきます。

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Louis Caron

A must for contemporary music lovers !

Reviewed in Canada on July 28, 2013

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A real bargain for anyone interested in modern and post-modern art music. Boulez's works have always been controversial

but they represent one very influential school of post-war culture.

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Antonio

Le coffret (avec) le maitre

Reviewed in Italy on July 2, 2014

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Molto opportunamente il box (dal carattere vagamente funereo) reca il titolo, sul retro, "Work in progress". Pierre Boulez difatti ci ha abituati a continue revisioni dei propri lavori, partendo da frammenti, schizzi, rielaborazioni complete. Tutto ciò potrà denunciare una grande attenzione alle proprie creature, un infinito ri-pensare la propria musica ma allo stesso tempo anche una certa velata sfiducia nei progressi della musica (se proprio vogliamo legare la Storia della Musica - ed è stato fatto, in primis da Monsieur Boulez - a quest'unica discutibile variabile). Come direttore d'orchestra l'ho sempre trovato abbastanza freddino, un poco antipatico quando a lui si vuole persino accollare il merito d'aver riscoperto Janacek (cancellare con un colpo di spugna l'apostolato di Sir Charles Mackerras?), Bartok o addirittura Mahler.. i meriti di direttore stravinskiano sono poi addirittura stridenti, se si considerano le sue posizioni ideologiche. Per il personaggio che è, rimanderei al capitoletto che Alex Ross gli ha dedicato in "Il resto è rumore", che sa giudicarlo come un europeo non potrebbe mai, visto il potere concentrato nelle sue mani e nell'Ircam parigino. Come compositore? ecco, alcune composizioni, le ultime in particolare suonano davvero "ethno-chic" (Alex Ross), e il resto del suo catalogo si divide tra il serialismo più ostinato alle esperienze con l'elettronica, con un certo compiacimento alla ricerca timbrica, alla purezza sonora che c'è poco da aggiungere, si chiudono gli occhi e si prova a seguirlo con il proprio intuito. Tutto ciò, devo dire, anche con una certa gradevolezza.
Questo l'elenco delle opere contenute nel box:
12 notations pour piano; Sonatine for flute and piano; Piano Sonata No. 1; Le Visage Nuptial (third version); Piano Sonata No. 2; Livre pour Quatuor - version 1962; Structures for 2 Pianos, Book 1; Le Soleil des Eaux; Le Marteau sans maître; Pli selon pli - version definitive, 1989; Piano Sonata No. 3; Structures for 2 Pianos, Book 2; Figures-doubles-prismes; Eclat; Multiples; Domaines; Improvisé - pour le Dr Kalmus pour piano et quatre instruments; Cummings ist der Dichter - second version - 1986; Livre pour cordes; Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna; Messagesquisse; Notations I-IV; Notations VII; Mémoriale; ... explosante-fixe…- fourth version - 1995; Anthèmes; Anthèmes 2; Répons; Dialogue de L'Ombre Double; Dérive I; Dérive II; Incises; Sur Incises; Une page d'éphéméride; Le Marteau sans maître; Le Soleil des Eaux; Sonatine for flute and piano (le ultime tre composizioni ripresentate in "edizioni storiche"); intervista a Pierre Boulez a cura di Claude Samuel.
Un corposo libretto di 250 pagg in francese ed inglese, con i testi e i commenti dell'autore, e con l'intervista dell'ultimo cd trascritta in inglese, per chi avesse difficoltà a seguire il discorso in lingua originale.
Un bel cofanetto, rien à dire.

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Jose Manuel Alfaro de Hombre

Las mil caras de la Belleza.

Reviewed in Spain on January 26, 2014

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Ciertamente que la obra de Boulez no es la "habitual" de concierto. Encuadrado dentro de la corriente del "serialismo", busca expresar en sus obras la belleza inherente a una concepción cuasi-matemática de la música: relaciones entre tonalidades, alturas, duración, etc .. Lo curioso, lo hermoso, en este compositor como en otros (Messiaen, Milhaud), es que lo consigue. Es decir, se nos presenta una música de una muy extraña, sí, pero singular belleza. Reconozco que, de joven, no le hubiera prestado a este tipo de música apenas atención. Ahora que va uno para viejo, quizás con el oído más fino, disfruta de oír la Belleza allí donde y como aparece. La presentación es exquisita: un cofre bellamente diseñado y un libreto más amplio de lo habitual. Los intérpretes (incluyendo al propio Boulez) son, igualmente, de lo mejor y las grabaciones perfectas de sonido. El último Cd, el No. 12, está dedicado a grabaciones históricas. Aquí la cuestión está tan sólo en si a uno le gusta o no tan singular concepción de la música. Mi consejo es que uno investigue, escuche previamente. Y, luego, sólo luego, decida. En mi caso este cofre - como el de Messiaen -, han sido dos aciertos. Personalmente los considero, más bien, dos verdaderos "descubrimientos".

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