Programme
- Deux Études, musique concrète for tape(6 mins)
- 12 Notations(10 mins)
- Incises(9 mins)
- cummings ist der Dichter(13 mins)
- interval
- Pli selon pli(70 mins)
Performers
- Martyn Brabbinsconductor
- Anna Dennissoprano
- Tamara Stefanovichpiano
Composers
About This Event
The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Symphony Orchestra’s day-long deep-dive into the life and work of Pierre Boulez reaches a truly monumental climax. Across an evening that spans his whole creative career, pianist Tamara Stefanovich plays the brilliant Notations and Incises, and the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Singers join the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ SO to perform the extraordinary, playful Cummings ist der Dichter.
And then Martyn Brabbins joins soprano Anna Dennis and an expanded ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Symphony Orchestra for a rare complete performance of Boulez’s single largest work, Pli selon Pli. Part Mallarmé song cycle, part self-portrait and part era-defining manifesto for the possibilities of musical modernism, every performance is a major occasion. Boulez himself recorded it with the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Symphony Orchestra – making it the perfect way for the orchestra to salute the 100th birthday of its most revolutionary chief conductor.