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Pierre Boulez (1925-2016)

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Sensuality and modern music: Barbara Hannigan
Barbara Hannigan talks about her relationship with Boulez, on singing Pli selon pli, and returning to the London Symphony Orchestra to conduct two programmes.
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Year of birth1925
Year of death2016
NationalityFrance
PeriodModern
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BucharestEnsemble intercontemporain

Primo Artists
Enescu, Boulez
Ensemble intercontemporain; TBC

BerlinLes Siècles II

Berliner Festspiele
Boulez
Les Siècles; Franck Ollu; Sarah Aristidou

BucharestAcademy of St Martin in the Fields

Primo Artists
Boulez, Beethoven, Enescu, Prokofiev
Academy of St Martin in the Fields; Jan Lisiecki

BerlinBerliner Philharmoniker I

Berliner Festspiele
Boulez, Adámek, Stravinsky
Berliner Philharmoniker; François-Xavier Roth

LondonMilda Daunoraité

Wigmore Hall
Poulenc, Ravel, Boulez, Messiaen
Milda Daunoraite, Piano
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At Festival Ravel: tilting at windmills

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Don Quixote provides the inspiration for songs by Ravel and Ibert, the high point of a bitty programme in contrast to an early evening recital which followed the perfect trajectory.
***11
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Reflections on Ravel: a three-course piano feast in Ciboure

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At the Festival Ravel, Bertrand Chamayou, Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Hyunji Kim perform all the solo piano works at the Église Saint-Vincent, a stone’s throw from the house where Ravel was born.
****1
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Mirrors and echoes: Pierre Boulez celebrated at the Lucerne Festival

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Liv Redpath and Bertrand Chamayou shine at the Lucerne Festival in this celebration of Pierre Boulez's legacy. 
****1
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Masterly Boulez from Shibe and friends at the BBC Proms in Gateshead

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Intimate playing from Sean Shibe, a deconstruction of Maria Callas’ vibrato and a deeply committed Boulez mid 20th-century masterpiece.
****1
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Ensemble intercontemporain revel in the sounds of our time

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The charismatic Ustina Dubitsky leads EIC in first-rate performances, including a world premiere from Katherine Balch, to support of Wigmore Hall's flagship ‘Voices of Today’ initiative.
*****
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