By Sedgwick Clark
Pierre Boulez turned 90 last week, on March 26. At first he struck fear in the ears of traditional concertgoers. But by his eighties he was hailed as a grand old man of music, in demand by all the major orchestras of the world. Fortunately, Boulez’s performing career is well documented, and his recording companies have celebrated his birthday in rare form with several box sets that include nearly his entire recorded output.
Boulez the Enfant Terrible. He revealed the lineage of 20th-century composition like no one else. His earliest recordings, dating from 1958-67, are with Domaine Musical, the French ensemble he formed in 1954. Works by Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Varèse, Messiaen, Stravinsky, and his own music (including two recordings of Le Marteau sans Maître) dominate the recorded Domaine repertoire. A smattering of his modernist contemporaries, Pousseur, Stockhausen, Berio, Henze, Cage, and others are included. Also included is a performance of Stravinsky’s Agon, with Hans Rosbaud conducting the Orchestre du Sudwestfunk, Baden-Baden. Deutsche Grammophon has handily gathered all these recordings on a 10-CD set, allowing us to jettison our crackly budget LPs at last.
The New York Philharmonic Years. Columbia Records signed Boulez in 1967 to record 20th-century repertoire, which is now all available on Sony Classical on a 67-CD set, primarily performed by the New York Philharmonic and London’s BBC Symphony. Boulez felt that before audiences could understand the music of the present, they must be conversant with contemporary composers’ historical forebears. Hence, these recordings concentrate on the works of Debussy, Ravel, Bartók, Berg, Schoenberg, Webern, Varèse, and Stravinsky; several of Boulez’s own works and Luciano Berio’s are included as well. Sony missed an opportunity, however, to include a never-before-released Boulez recording of Debussy’s Symphonic Fragments from The Martyrdom of St. Sebastien. Unedited tapes of a New York Philharmonic studio recording lie fallow in Sony’s icebox, never released for lack of an LP discmate; I recall the live performance as luminous. Sony’s CD reissues back in the ’80s by George Kadar were not transferred from the original analogue master tapes and betrayed light hiss levels that could have been avoided. Sony’s p.r. release for the box set claims that the recordings were mastered from original sources. I’m skeptical, but I’ll suspend judgment until I’ve heard the box set.
Warner’s Erato Set. Boulez’s departure as music director of the New York Philharmonic in 1977 for Paris to head up the contemporary-music organization IRCAM effectively ended his Columbia contract. The French label Erato stepped in during the 1980s to fill gaps in the conductor’s discography by Stravinsky (Pulcinella, Le Rossignol, L’Histoire du soldat), Schoenberg (Violin and Piano Concertos), and several important Boulez works—all now available in a 14-CD box released by Warner Classics. Perhaps one of these days Warner will also reissue Boulez’s early-1970s EMI recordings of Bartók’s Piano Concerto Nos. 1 and 3 with Daniel Barenboim and Berg’s Violin Concerto and the two Bartók Violin Rhapsodies with Yehudi Menuhin.
DG’s Class Act. In 1990, Deutsche Grammophon signed the composer/conductor to undoubtedly the most fruitful of his recording contracts. DG pulled out all the stops for Boulez, enlisting the Chicago Symphony for Bartók and Stravinsky, the Berlin Philharmonic for Ravel and Webern, the Cleveland Orchestra for Debussy and Stravinsky, the Vienna Philharmonic and Cleveland for Mahler’s symphonies and the song cycles, and the Ensemble Intercontemporain for his own works and those by Ligeti and Birtwistle. The Columbia recordings were very impressive for their revelation of Boulez’s incredible ear for detail, but I well recall being blown sideways by DG’s addition of spectacular digital sonics and Rolls Royce orchestras. I’m still amazed.
Not all the works recorded by the New York and BBC orchestras on Columbia in the late 1960s and ’70s were re-recorded by DG. Boulez never got around to re-doing Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder, for example, but he did re-record a superb Moses und Aron with none other than the Royal Concertgebouw! Thus, Boulez fans will need all these commemorative sets on their shelves.
DG has also released an elegantly designed seven-CD set of all of Boulez’s music, which includes the Erato recordings of Boulez works that he never recorded for DG to make this set note-complete.
Domaine Musical recordings (1958-1967) on Deutsche Grammophon
CD 1: Le concert du 10è anniversaire
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928 – 2007)
Pierre Boulez, Solistes du Domaine Musical
Luciano Berio (1925 – 2003)
Serenata 1 Pour Flûte Et 14 Instruments
Severino Gazzelloni, Pierre Boulez, Solistes du Domaine Musical
Pierre Boulez (1925 – )
Le Marteau sans Maître
Jeanne Deroubaix, Solistes du Domaine Musical, Pierre Boulez
Olivier Messiaen (1908 – 1992)
Yvonne Loriod, Rudolf Albert, Orchestre Du Domaine Musical
Total CD Playing Time: 1:07:47
CD 2: Les références françaises
Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918)
Edgar Varèse (1885 – 1965)
Densité 21, 5, Pour Flûte Seule
Severino Gazzelloni
Hyperprisme, Pour Petit Orchestre Et Percussions
Pierre Boulez, Orchestre Du Domaine Musical
Octandre
Pierre Boulez, Jacques Castagner, Claude Maisonneuve, Guy Deplus, Marcel Naulais, André Rabot, André Fournier, Roger Delmotte, René Allain, Jacques Cazauran
Intégrales, Pour Petit Orchestre Et Percussion
Pierre Boulez, Orchestre Du Domaine Musical
Olivier Messiaen (1908 – 1992)
Yvonne Loriod
Sept Haikai
Les Percussions De Strasbourg, Orchestre Du Domaine Musical, Pierre Boulez, Yvonne Loriod
Total CD Playing Time: 1:02:37
CD 3: Le compositeur Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez (1925 – )
Structures, Livre 1 et 2 Pour 2 Pianos
Aloys Kontarsky, Alfons Kontarsky
Severino Gazzelloni, David Tudor
Piano Sonata No.2
Yvonne Loriod
Total CD Playing Time: 58:09
CD 4: Les compagnons de route
Mauricio Kagel (1931 – 2008)
Pierre Boulez, Solistes du Domaine Musical
Luigi Nono (1924 – 1990)
Pierre Boulez, Orchestre Du Domaine Musical
Hans Werner Henze (1926 – 2012)
Yvonne Loriod, Rudolf Albert, Orchestre Du Domaine Musical
Henri Pousseur (1929-2009)
Guy Deplus, Gérard Jarry, Michel Tournus, Jean-Charles Francoise, Diego Masson, Fabienne Boury
Aloys Kontarsky, Alfons Kontarsky
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928 – 2007)
Jacques Castagner, Claude Maisonneuve, Paul Taillefer, Guy Deplus, André Rabot
David Tudor
Total CD Playing Time: 1:12:45
CD 5: Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971)
Concertino pour 12 instruments
Pierre Boulez, Jacques Parrenin, Pierre Penassou, Jacques Castagner, Claude Maisonneuve, Paul Taillefer, Guy Deplus, André Rabot, Jean-Pierre Laroque, Pierre Pollin, Jacques Lecointre, René Allain, Maurice Suzan
Three Pieces for solo Clarinet
Guy Deplus
3 Pieces for String Quartet
Quatuor Parrenin, Jacques Parrenin, Jacques Ghestem, Michel Wales, Pierre Penassou
Symphonies d’instruments à vent
Orchestre Du Domaine Musical, Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez, Jean Giraudeau, Louis Devos, Louis Jacques Rondeleux, Xavier Depraz, Elemer Kiss, Orchestre Du Domaine Musical
Agon – Ballet (1957)
Orchestre Du Sudwestfunk Baden-Baden, Hans Rosbaud
Total CD Playing Time: 1:01:39
CD 6: L’école de Vienne I. De 1899 à 1912
Arnold Schoenberg (1874 – 1951)
Verklärte Nacht, Op.4 – Version for String Sextet
Jacques Parrenin, Marcel Charpentier, Denes Marton, Serge Collot, Pierre Penassou, Michel Tournus
Anton Webern (1883 – 1945)
Six pieces for orchestra, Op.6 – Original version (1909)
Orchestre Du Sudwestfunk Baden-Baden, Hans Rosbaud
Arnold Schoenberg (1874 – 1951)
Three Pieces for Chamber Orchestra (1910)
Pierre Boulez, Orchestre Du Domaine Musical
Pierrot Lunaire, Op.21 (1912)
Pierre Boulez, Helga Pilarczyk, Maria Bergmann, Jacques Castagner, Guy Deplus, Louis Montaigne, Luben Yordanoff, Serge Collot, Jean Huchot
Total CD Playing Time: 1:14:08
CD 7: L’école de Vienne II. De 1906 à 1943
Alban Berg (1885 – 1935)
Yvonne Loriod
3 Pieces for Orchestra, Op.6 (Revised version of 1929)
Hans Rosbaud, Orchestre Du Sudwestfunk Baden-Baden
Arnold Schoenberg (1874 – 1951)
Pierre Boulez, Solistes du Domaine Musical
Anton Webern (1883 – 1945)
2 Songs op.8 for voice and eight instruments
Pierre Boulez, Orchestre Du Domaine Musical, Jeanne Héricard
4 Songs op.13 for voice and orchestra
Jeanne Héricard, Orchestre Du Domaine Musical, Pierre Boulez
I. Kantate op.29 for soprano, mixed chorus and orchestra
II. Kantate op.31 for soprano solo, bass solo, mixed chorus and orchestra
Chorale Elisabeth Brasseur Versailles, Orchestre Du Domaine Musical, Pierre Boulez, Ilona Steingruber, Xavier Depraz
Total CD Playing Time: 1:13:51
CD 8: L’école de Vienne III. Le sérialisme
Arnold Schoenberg (1874 – 1951)
Serenade for Septet & Bass Voice, Op.24
Pierre Boulez, Guy Deplus, Louis Montaigne, Paul Grund, Paul Stingl, Luben Yordanoff, Serge Collot, Jean Huchot, Louis Jacques Rondeleux
Suite, Op.29
Pierre Boulez, Jacques Ghestem, Marcel Naulais, Guy Deplus, Louis Montaigne, Luben Yordanoff, Serge Collot, Jean Huchot
Anton Webern (1883 – 1945)
Variations for Piano, Op.27
Yvonne Loriod
Symphony, Op.21
Pierre Boulez, Orchestre Du Domaine Musical
Total CD Playing Time: 1:10:06
CD 9: IIIè concert – Saison 1956
Giovanni Gabrieli (1553 – 1612)
Canzon duodecimi toni a 8, No 5, C. 174
Canzon septimi toni à 8 (Sacrae symphoniae 1597, No.3)
Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971)
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Rudolf Albert, Orchestre Du Domaine Musical
Hans Werner Henze (1926 – 2012)
Olivier Messiaen (1908 – 1992)
Yvonne Loriod, Rudolf Albert, Orchestre Du Domaine Musical
Jean-Claude Eloy (1938 – )
Pierre Boulez, Solistes du Domaine Musical, Les Percussions De Strasbourg
Total CD Playing Time: 46:56
CD 10: Une histoire d’amitiés…
1. La genèse / [Le Domaine Musical]
2. Domaine musical, année zéro / [Le Domaine Musical]
3. Le répertoire / [Le Domaine Musical]
4. Les références / [Le Domaine Musical]
5. Les compagnons de route / [Le Domaine Musical]
6. Les interprètes / [Le Domaine Musical]
Pierre Boulez, Claude Samuel
Pierre Boulez (1925 – )
Le Marteau sans Maître
Pierre Boulez, Solistes du Domaine Musical, Marie-Thérèse Cahn
Total CD Playing Time: 1:19:30
Pierre Boulez Recordings (1967-1977) on Sony Classical
DISC 1:
Berg: Wozzeck, Op. 7. From the drama by George Büchner (beginning)
DISC 2:
Berg: Wozzeck, Op. 7. From the drama by George Büchner (conclusion)
DISC 3:
Messiaen: Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum
Messiaen: Couleurs de la Cité Céleste
DISC 4:
Debussy: La Mer
Debussy: Prélude a l’après-midi d’un faune
Debussy: Jeux
DISC 5:
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
DISC 6:
Berlioz: Lelio, ou Le Retour a la vie, Op. 14b
DISC 7:
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (Sz 106)
Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite (1910)
DISC 8:
Berg: Chamber Concerto for Violin, Piano & 13 Wind Instruments
Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6
Berg: Altenberg Lieder, Op. 4
DISC 9:
Debussy: Images pour Orchestra
Debussy: Danses sacrée et profane
DISC 10:
Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps (original version)
DISC 11:
Mahler: Das klagende Lied
DISC 12:
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
Beethoven: Cantata – “Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage,” Op. 112
Mahler: Symphony No. 10 – Adagio
DISC 13-15:
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande, Drame lyrique en 5 actes
DISC 16:
Boulez: Pli Selon Pli (“fold according to fold”)
DISC 17:
Debussy: Nocturnes
Debussy: Printemps
Debussy: Première Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Orchestra
DISC 18:
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
Ravel: Pavane Pour une Infante Défunte
Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole
Ravel: Alborada del Gracioso
DISC 19:
Stravinsky: Pétrouchka (1911 version)
DISC 20:
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19
Bartók: Dance Suite (Sz 77)
DISC 21:
Ravel: Concerto in G Major for Piano and Orchestra
Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D Major
DISC 22:
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini (excerpt)
Berlioz: Les Troyens (excerpt)
Berlioz: Beatrice et Benedict (excerpts)
Berlioz: Le Carnaval Romain, Op. 9 – Concert Overture
DISC 23:
Berg: Seven Early Songs
Berg: Wozzeck. Act III
DISC 24:
Ravel: Une Barque sur L’Océan
Ravel: Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
DISC 25:
Boulez: Le Marteau sans maître
Boulez: Livre pour Cordes
DISC 26:
Wagner: Prelude to Act I from The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
Wagner: Tannhäuser and the Song Contest on the Wartburg Overture
Wagner: Faust Overture
Wagner: Prelude to Act I and Isoldes Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
DISC 27:
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
DISC 28:
Ravel: La Valse
Ravel: Menuet Antique
Ravel: Ma Mère L’oye
Ravel: Boléro
DISC 29-30:
Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder
DISC 31:
Handel: Water Music: Suite No.1 in F Major for Orchestra, HWV 348
DISC 32:
Stravinsky: The Firebird
Stravinsky: The Song of the Nightingale
DISC 33:
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
DISC 34:
Berio: Nones
Berio: Allelujah II
Berio: Concerto for Two Pianos
DISC 35-36:
Schoenberg: Moses und Aron
DISC 37:
Falla: El sombrero de tres picos
Falla: Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin and Cello
DISC 38:
Bartók: Bluebeard’s Castle, Op. 11 (Sz 48)
DISC 39:
Dukas: La Péri
Roussel: Symphony No. 3 in G minor, Op. 42
DISC 40:
Bartók: The Wooden Prince, Op. 13 (Sz 60)
DISC 41:
Varèse: Amériques
Varèse: Ionisation
Varèse: Arcana
DISC 42:
Berlioz: Les Nuits d’été, Op. 7
Berlioz: La Mort de Cléopâtre
DISC 43:
Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite
Stravinsky: Scherzo fantastique, Op. 3
Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
DISC 44:
Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21
DISC 45: Wagner: Das Liebesmahl der Apostel
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
DISC 46:
Webern: Passacaglia for Orchestra, Op. 1
Webern: Entflieht auf leichten Kähnen, Op. 2
Webern: Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6
Webern: Zwei Lieder für mittlere Stimme und acht Instrumente, Op. 8
Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10
Webern: Vier Lieder für Sopran und Orchester, Op. 13
Webern: Sechs Lieder für Singstimme und vier Instrumente, Op. 14
Webern: Fünf geistliche Lieder für Sopran und fünf Instrumente, Op. 15
Webern: Fünf Canons nach lateinischen Texten für Sopran, Klarinette und Baßklarinette, Op. 16
Webern: Drei Volkstexte für Singstimme und drei Instrumente, Op. 17
Webern: Drei Lieder für Singstimme, Es-Klarinette und Gitarre, Op. 18
Webern: Zwei Lieder für gemischten Chor und fünf Instrumente, Op. 19
Webern: Symphony for Chamber Orchestra, Op. 21
DISC 47:
Webern: Quartet for Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, Violin and Piano, Op. 22
Webern: Concerto for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Trumpet, Trombone, Violin, Viola and Piano, Op. 24
Webern: Das Augenlicht für gemischten Chor und Orchester, Op. 26, Worte von Hildegard Jone
Webern: Cantata No. 1, Op. 29
Webern: Variations for Orchestra, Op. 30 (1940)
Webern: Cantata No. 2, Op. 31
Webern: Fünf Sätze für Streichquartett, Op. 5
Webern: Fuga No. 2 (Ricercata) a 6 voci from Musikalisches Opfer, BWV 1079, No. 5
DISC 48:
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (Version for String Orchestra, 1943)
Berg: Three Pieces from “Lyric Suite”
DISC 49:
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
Handel: Berenice, HWV 38
Handel: Concerto in F Major for 2 Wind Choirs and Strings, HWV 334
DISC 50:
Berg: Lulu – Suite
Berg: Der Wein
DISC 51:
Carter: Symphony of Three Orchestras
Carter: A Mirror On Which To Dwell – Six Poems Of Elizabeth Bishop
DISC 52:
Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46
Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31
Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16
Schoenberg: Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene, Op. 34
DISC 53:
Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder
Mahler: Rückert Lieder
DISC 54:
Schoenberg: Serenade, Op. 24
Schoenberg: Lied der Waldtaube
Schoenberg: Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, Op. 41
DISC 55:
Schoenberg: Die Jakobsleiter
Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17
Schoenberg: Die glückliche Hand, Op. 18
DISC 56:
Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9
Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 38
Schoenberg: 3 Pieces for Chamber Orchestra
Schoenberg: Four Orchestral Songs, Op. 22
DISC 57:
Boulez: Eclat
Boulez: Multiples
Boulez: Rituel (In Memory of Bruno Maderna)
DISC 58:
Varèse: Equatorial
Varèse: Deserts
Varèse: Intégrales
Varèse: Hyperprism
Varèse: Octandre
Varèse: Offrandes
Varèse: Density 21.5
DISC 59:
Ravel: Shéhérazade
Ravel: Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Ravel: Chansons madécasses
Ravel: Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
Ravel: Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques
DISC 60:
Schoenberg: Suite for 2 Clarinets, Bass Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano, Op. 29
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4
DISC 61:
Berg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (To the Memory of an Angel)
Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6
DISC 62:
Boulez: Le Marteau sans Maître
Boulez: II Notations Pour Piano
Boulez: III Structures Pour Deux Pianos, Livre II
DISC 63:
Schoenberg: Friede Auf Erden, Op. 13
Schoenberg: Kol Nidre, Op. 39
Schoenberg: Drei Volkslieder, Op. 49
Schoenberg: Zwei Kanons
Schoenberg: Drei Volkslieder
Schoenberg: Vier Stücke, Op. 27
DISC 64:
Schoenberg: Drei Satiren, Op. 28
Schoenberg: Sechs Stücke, Op. 35
Schoenberg: Dreimal Tausend Jahre, Op. 50A
Schoenberg: De Profundis, Op. 50 B (Psalm 130)
Schoenberg: Moderner Psalm, Op. 50 C
DISC 65:
Berio: IL Ritorno Degli Snovidenia per solo violoncello e piccolo orchestra (1976)
Berio: Chemins II (su/after “Sequenza VI”) (1967)
Berio: Chemins IV (su/after “Sequenza VII”) (1975)
Berio: Corale (su/after “Sequenza VIII”) (1981)
Berio: Points On The Curve To Find… for piano and 22 instrumentalists (1974)
DISC 66:
Berg: Sieben frühe Lieder
Berg: Fünf Orchesterlieder von Altenberg Op.4
Berg: Jugendlieder (Selections)
Berg: Zwei Lieder
Berg: Er klagt, dass der Frühling so kurz blüht from Jugendlieder (Excerpt)
DISC 67:
Scriabin: Symphony No. 4, Le Poeme de l’extase, Op. 54
Bartók: Four Pieces, Op. 12 (Sz 51)
Bartók: Three Village Scenes (Sz 79)
Stravinsky: Suite No. 1 pour petit orchestre
Stravinsky: Suite No. 2 pour petit orchestra
Pierre Boulez on Erato (1980-1990)
CD 1
Stravinsky: Pulcinella. Le Chant du Rossignol
CD 2
Stravinsky: Le Rossignol. Quatre Chants paysans russes “Les Soucoupes”
Trois pieces pour quatuor à cordes. “Madrid.” Quatre Etudes pour orchestre
CD 3
Stravinsky: L’Histoire du soldat. Concertino for 12 instruments
CD 4
Schoenberg: Pelléas et Mélisande. Variations op. 31
CD 5
Schoenberg: Violin Concerto, op. 36. Piano Concerto, op. 42
CD 6
Messiaen: Et exspecto ressurectionem mortuorum. Couleurs de la Cité Céleste
CD 7
Berio: Sinfonia. Eindrücke
Xenakis: Jalons
CD 8
Donatoni: Tema for 12 instruments. Cadeau
Ligeti: Etudes for piano (Book 1)
Trio for violin, horn and piano
CD 9
Kurtág: Messages de feu Demoiselle R.V. Troussova
Birtwistle: …AGM…
Grisey: Modulations
CD 10
Carter: Concerto for Oboe. Esprit rude/Esprit doux
A Mirror on which to Dwell. Penthode
CD 11
Dufourt: Antiphysis
Ferneyhough: Funérailles I & II
Harvey: Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco
Höller: Arcus
CD 12
Boulez: Pli selon pli
CD 13
Boulez: Le Visage nuptial. Le soleil des eaux. Figures, Doubles, Prismes
CD 14
Boulez: Sonatine for flute and piano. Piano Sonata No. 1. Dérive I
Mémoriale (…Explosante-fixe…Originel). Dialogue de l’ombre double
cummings ist der Dichter
PIERRE BOULEZ: 20th CENTURY (1990-2013) on Deutsche Grammophon
CD 1–8 BÉLA BARTÓK
CD 1
4 Pieces for Orchestra op. 12 (Sz 51)
Concerto for Orchestra Sz 116
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
(P) 1993
CD 2
Dance Suite Sz 77
Two Pictures op. 10 (Sz 46)
Hungarian Sketches Sz 97
Divertimento for String Orchestra Sz 113
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
(P) 1995
CD 3
The Miraculous Mandarin op. 19 (Sz 73)
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Sz 106
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (Sz 73)
CD 4
Cantata Profana Sz.94 – The Nine Splendid Stags
The Wooden Prince, Sz. 60 (Op.13)
John Aler, tenor, John Tomlinson, baritone
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (Chorus Master: Margaret Hillis)
CD 5
The Piano Concertos
No. 1 Krystian Zimerman / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
No. 2 Leif Ove Andsnes / Berliner Philharmoniker
No. 3 Hélène Grimaud / London Symphony Orchestra
CD 6
Concerto for 2 Pianos, Percussion and Orchestra Sz 115
Tamara Stefanovich, piano 1
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano 2
London Symphony Orchestra
Violin Concerto No. 1 Sz 36
Gidon Kremer / Berliner Philharmoniker
Viola Concerto Sz 120
Yuri Bashmet / Berliner Philharmoniker
CD 7
Violin Concerto No. 2
Rhapsodies Nos. 1 + 2
Gil Shaham / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
CD 8
Bluebeard’s Castle Sz 48
Jessye Norman (Judith) · László Polgár (Bluebeard) · Nicholas Simon (Prologue)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
CD 9–12 ALBAN BERG
CD 9
Chamber Concerto for Piano and Violin with 13 Wind Instruments
Daniel Barenboim, piano · Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Ensemble Intercontemporain
+
Lulu-Suite
Wiener Philharmoniker
CD 10–12
Lulu (Complete opera in 3 acts)
Stratas · Minton · Schwarz · Mazura · Riegel · Blankenheim · Tear · Pampuch
Orchestre de l’Opéra de Paris
CD 13 & 14 HARRISON BIRTWISTLE
CD 13
Theseus Game* 33:14
Earth Dances 33:17
*Brabbins, Valade, Diry, Kretschmer
Ensemble Modern
CD 14
Secret Theatre
Tragoedia
Five Distances
3 Settings of Celan*
Christine Whittlesey,*
Ensemble Intercontemporain
75:43
The Triumph of Time 27:43 (Decca) – see CD 37
CD 15–19 PIERRE BOULEZ
CD 15
Notations for piano solo (Aimard) 10:43
Structures pour deux pianos 22:06
…explosante-fixe… 36:43
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez, Sophie Cherrier, Emmanuelle Ophele, Pierre Andre Valade
CD 16
Le Marteau sans maître (1953–1955)*
Dérive 1 (1984)
Dérive 2 (1988/2002)
Hilary Summers,* soprano
Ensemble Intercontemporain
CD 17
Pli selon Pli (1957–1989)
Christine Schäfer, soprano
Ensemble Intercontemporain
CD 18
Répons (1981–1984)
Vassilakis, Boffard, piano / Cambreling, harp / Bauer, vibraphone, CIampolini, xylophone & Glockenspiel / Cerutti, cimbalom
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Dialogue de l’ombre double (1985)
Alain Damien, clarinet
CD 19
Sur Incises
Messagesquisse
Jean-Guihen Queyras, Ensemble Intercontemporain
CD 20–21 CLAUDE DEBUSSY
CD 20
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Images pour Orchestre
Printemps
The Cleveland Orchestra
CD 21
Trois Nocturnes*
Première Rhapsodie pour clarinette et orchestra
Jeux
La Mer
Franklin Cohen, clarinet
The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus*
The Cleveland Orchestra
See also CD 29
CD 22–23 GYÖRGI LIGETI
CD 22
Chamber Concerto for 13 instrumentalists (1969–70)
Ramifications for string orchestra or 12 solo strings (1968–69)
Aventures for 3 singers and 7 instrumentalists (1962)
Nouvelles Aventures for 3 singers and 7 instrumentalists
Jane Manning, soprano / Mary Thomas, mezzo-soprano / William Pearson, bass
Ensemble Intercontemporain
CD 23
Piano Concerto (1985-88)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
Cello Concerto (1966)
Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello
Violin Concerto (1992)
Saschko Gawriloff, violin
Ensemble InterContemporain
CD 24–25 OLIVIER MESSIAEN
CD 24
Poèmes pour Mi
Françoise Pollet, soprano
Le Réveil des oiseaux
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
Sept Haïkaï
Joela Jones, piano
The Cleveland Orchestra
CD 25
Chronochromie
La Ville d’en haut
Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
The Cleveland Orchestra
CD 26–29 MAURICE RAVEL
CD 26
Ma Mère l’Oye
Une Barque sur l’océan
Alborada del Gracioso
Rapsodie espagnole
Boléro
Berliner Philharmoniker
CD 27
Daphnis et Chloé*
La Valse
Rundfunkchor Berlin,* Berliner Philharmoniker
CD 28
Piano Concerto in G
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand*
Krystian Zimerman, piano
The Cleveland Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra*
CD 29
Shéhérazade* · Le Tombeau de Couperin · Pavane · Menuet antique
*Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Danses for Harp and Orchestra*
5 Poèmes de Charles Baudelaire**
3 Ballades de François Villon**
Alison Hagley, soprano** · Lisa Wellbaum, harp*
The Cleveland Orchestra
CD 30–33 ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
CD 30
Pelleas und Melisande op. 5
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
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Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 42
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
The Cleveland Orchestra
CD 31
Pierrot Lunaire op. 21
Herzgewächse op. 20
Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte op. 41
Christine Schäfer, soprano
David Pittman-Jennings, narrator
Ensemble InterContemporain
CD 32-33
Moses und Aron
Merritt · Pittman-Jennings, Fontana · Naef · Graham-Hall
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
CD 34–39 IGOR STRAVINSKY
CD 34
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Le Chant du rossignol
L’Histoire du Soldat – Suite
Scherzo fantastique
Le Roi des étoiles
The Cleveland Orchestra & Chorus
CD 35
The Firebird
Fireworks
4 Etudes for Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
CD 36
Pétrouchka (Original Version: 1911)
Le Sacre du Printemps
The Cleveland Orchestra
CD 37
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Symphony of Psalms*
Symphony in 3 Movements
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Rundfunkchor Berlin,* Berliner Philharmoniker
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HARRISON BIRTWISTLE: The Triumph of Time 27:43 (Decca)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
478 4249, tr. 1
CD 38
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Ebony Concerto
3 Pieces for Clarinet Solo
Concertino for String Quartet
8 Miniatures
Concerto in E flat “Dumbarton Oaks”
Elégie for Viola Solo
Epitaphium
Double Canon for String Quartet
Michel Arrignon, clarinet
Ensemble InterContemporain
CD 39
Songs
Pastorale, 2 Poems by Paul Verlaine, 2 Poems by Konstanin Bal’mont, 3 Japanese Lyrics, 3 Songs (Recollections of my Childhood), Pribaoutki (4 Songs), 4 Cat’s Cradle Songs, 4 songs, Tilim-bom, Songs of Parasha (Mavra), 3 Songs from William Shakespeare, In memoriam Dylan Thomas, Elegy for J.F.K., 2 Sacred Songs from Spanisches Liederbuch / Hugo Wolf
Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano · Ann Murray, mezzo-soprano
Robert Tear, tenor · John Shirley-Quirk, baritone
Ensemble InterContemporain
CD 40 KAROL SZYMANOWSKI
CD 40
Violin Concerto No. 1 op. 35 (1916)
Symphonie No. 3 op. 27 »Song of the night · Piesn o nocy«
Christian Tetzlaff, violin · Steve Davislim, tenor
Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Wien · Wiener Philharmoniker
CD 41 EDGARD VARÈSE
CD 41
Amériques
Arcana
Déserts
Ionisation
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
CD 42–44 ANTON WEBERN
CD 42
Passacaglia für Orchester op. 1
5 Movements op. 5 (Version for Orchestra)
6 Pieces for Orchestra op. 6
Im Sommerwind
Fuga (Ricercata)
German Dances
Berliner Philharmoniker
CD 43
Symphonie op. 21
Cantatas Nos. 1 & 2
3 Songs
Das Augenlicht op. 26
Variations op. 30
5 Pieces for Orchestra
Christiane Oelze, soprano · Gerald Finley, bass
BBC Singers, Berliner Philharmoniker
CD 44
Songs and Choruses
Piano Quintet (1907)
„Entflieht auf leichten Kähnen“ op. 2, 2 Lieder op. 8
5 Pieces for Orchestra op. 10
4 Lieder op. 13, 6 Lieder op. 14, 5 Sacred Songs op. 15, 5 Canons op. 16
3 Traditional Rhymes op. 17, 3 Lieder op. 18, 2 Lieder op. 19
Quartet op. 22
Concerto op. 24
Françoise Pollet, soprano (opp. 8, 13, 14) · Christiane Oelze, soprano (opp. 15 – 18)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
BBC Singers (opp. 2, 19)
Ensemble InterContemporain