Endless spirals: Philippe Manoury remembers Pierre Boulez

Philippe Manoury

Pierre Boulez and Philippe Manoury at Ircam in 1992

Philippe Manoury

By Chloë Rouge, 27 March 2025

Loading, please wait...

“Contradiction interested him a lot”

Tim Rutherford-Johnson, 10th July

This year Chigiana International Festival presents Yann Robin’s new opera Medusa, inspired by Alessandro Scarlatti and Caravaggio – music poised between past and future.

Barbara Hannigan and Herbie Hancock honoured with Polar Music Prizes

Bachtrack, 18th March

Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan and US jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock, together with British rock band Queen, join an illustrious list group of musicians to win the Swedish prizes.

Sensuality and modern music: Barbara Hannigan

Lawrence Dunn, 6th December

Barbara Hannigan talks about her relationship with Boulez, on singing Pli selon pli, and returning to the London Symphony Orchestra to conduct two programmes this season.

Labyrinths of life: Erkki-Sven Tüür

Simon Cummings, 27th May

Erkki-Sven Tüür talks about making sanctuary on Hiiumaa, a wild island to Estonia’s west, and his interest in writing concertos, seen “through the eyes of someone who observes the world very closely”.

New romance: the music of Nathan Henninger

Bachtrack, 26th May

The Toronto-born composer talks about new work Romanza for piano and orchestra, theatricality in music, taking influences from psychology, and the effect on his music of working for the United Nations.

Before the war came: why The Green Table is urgent today

Bachtrack, 20th May

Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Jonathan Payn talks about The Green Table by Kurt Jooss, first performed in Paris in 1932 – and how choreography can respond to political collapse and the threat of war.

Chloë Rouge

Après des études d’histoire de la musique au CRR de Paris et de musicologie à l’EHESS avec pour ce sujet de recherche les compositeurs-chefs d’orchestres, Chloë Rouge devient enseignante de formation musicale au conservatoire Maurice Ravel du 13^e arrondissement de Paris. Particulièrement intéressée par la musique contemporaine et la médiation de la musique, elle commence la critique musicale pour le journal Altamusica et rédige des notes de programme pour différentes institutions (Festival de La Chaise-Dieu, Radio France). Depuis 2024, elle fait partie de la commission musique contemporaine de l’Académie Charles Cros.