 | Schoenberg: Pierre Boulez Edition 1 by Pierre Boulez
Buy new: $25.98 2VS
5 discs -- Boulez conducts Schoenberg.
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 | Schoenberg: Pierre Boulez Edition 2 by Pierre Boulez
Buy new: $30.98 2VS
6 discs -- Boulez conducts Schoenberg's choral and vocal works.
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 | Arnold Schoenberg: Serenade/Five Pieces For Orchestra
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.99 2VS
5 STARS (included in the new Schoenberg I set)
5 Pieces is one of the crucial atonal works, here with two later vocal works using the 12-tone system.
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 | Schoenberg - Pierrot lunaire ~ Herzgewächse ~ Ode to Napoleon / Schäfer, Pittman-Jennings, Ensemble InterContempolain, Boulez by Arnold Schoenberg
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $11.09 2VS
This is a work more discussed than actually heard, I'm sure -- an early atonal classic. Sinopoli has an excellent rendition on Teldec.
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 | Schoenberg - Moses und Aron / Pittman-Jennings · Merritt · Boulez by Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Buy new: $33.98 / Used from: $12.35 2VS
Schoenberg's last great work, using his 12-tone system to address God and morality.
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 | Webern & Varese: Pierre Boulez Edition by Pierre Boulez
Buy new: $29.98 2VS
6 discs -- Boulez conducts Webern and Varese.
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 | Anton Webern: Complete Works, Opp. 1-31 by Anton Webern
Buy used from: $73.21 2VS
4 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW (included in the new Sony set)
For Boulez, Webern is the key, and here he conducts the Complete Works.
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![Complete Webern [Box Set]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/319ATHCS9YL._SL75_.jpg) | Complete Webern [Box Set] by Anton von Webern
Buy new: $65.99 / Used from: $45.69 2VS
Boulez with another pass at Webern. This DG set includes both the official numbered works and the unnumbered works.
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 | Berg: Pierre Boulez Edition by Pierre Boulez
Buy new: $25.98 2VS
5 discs -- Boulez conducts Berg, including 2 discs of "Wozzeck," perhaps the most widely heard of all the Second Vienna School (2VS) works of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg.
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 | Berg: Wozzeck
Buy used from: $50.00 2VS
Included in the new Sony set.
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 | Berg: Chamber Concerto; Three Orchestral Pieces, Op. 6; Violin Concerto
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $26.11 2VS
5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW (included in the new Sony set)
Three fantastic works, one of the best of Boulez on Sony.
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 | Alban Berg: Lulu Suite/The Wine/Lyric Suite
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $6.99 2VS
5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW (included in the new Sony set)
Only 1 of the 5 sections of the "Lulu Suite" features vocals. Great example of Berg's 12-tone writing. Also the central 3 movements of the "Lyric Suite" for orchestra.
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 | Berg - Lulu / Stratas · Minton · Schwarz · Mazura · Riegel · Blankenheim · Tear · Pampuch · Boulez
Buy used from: $30.00 2VS
Berg's other opera, and even more scandalous, a 12-tone work. This is Boulez conducting the completed score for the first time.
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 | Mahler: Symphony No. 2 ("Resurrection")
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.89 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
Boulez belatedly began a Mahler cycle when he realized what a crucial influence Mahler was on the 2VS. GM & the next 6 composers are "approved" by Boulez.
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 | Mahler & Wagner: Pierre Boulez Edition by Pierre Boulez
Buy new: $21.98 5 discs -- Boulez conducts mainly lieder and vocal works, and orchestral Wagner which of course is 19th century.
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 | DeBussy: Pierre Boulez Edition by Pierre Boulez
Buy new: $25.98 5 discs -- Boulez conducts Debussy.
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 | Debussy: Orchestral Works
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $12.47 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW (included in the new Sony set)
Great set of Debussy from the 1960s. Boulez's recent DG recordings are more polished, but lack the zing.
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 | Ravel: Pierre Boulez Edition by Pierre Boulez
Buy new: $23.98 4 discs -- Boulez conducts Ravel
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 | Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé / La Valse - Berliner Philharmoniker / Pierre Boulez
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.96 Ravel makes Boulez's short "approved" list on the basis of his orchestration -- note the vast number of composers Boulez does not perform or record to appreciate the significance of those he does.
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 | Stravinsky: Pierre Boulez Edition by Pierre Boulez
Buy new: $23.98 4 discs -- Boulez conducts Stravinsky, Messiaen, Dukas & Falla
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 | Pierre Boulez Edition - Stravinsky: Rite Of Spring, Petrouchka / New York PO, Cleveland Orchestra
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $4.15 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW (included in the new Sony set)
This is a powerful rendition of the "Rite"!
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 | Pierre Boulez Conducts Bartók
Buy new: $115.98 8 discs -- Boulez conducts Bartok
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 | Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2; Rhapsodies Nos. 1 & 2
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $5.44 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW (included in the new DG set)
Stunning playing here by Gil Shaham and the CSO.
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 | Varese: Arcana; Ameriques; Ionization; Offrandes; Density 21.5; Octandre; Integrales
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $3.99 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
A fantastic set of Varese -- 3 more pieces coupled with Carter found below at #21.
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 | Messiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum; Chronochromie; La Ville d'en haut
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $5.99 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
Messiaen was Boulez's teacher -- here are two of his best works.
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 | Boulez: Original Album Classics by Pierre Boulez
Buy new: $25.98 5 discs -- Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire," Berg's "Lulu Suite," Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra," a Ravel disc, and Boulez's "Pli Selon Pli."
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 | Boulez: Pierre Boulez Edition by Pierre Boulez
Buy new: $21.98 3 discs -- Boulez conducts Boulez
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 | Pierre Boulez: Pli selon pli; Livre pour cordes
Buy used from: $12.99 4 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW (included in new Sony set)
Boulez's longest work, with Webernian soprano -- this 1969 recording with the BBCSO might be better than the 2001 recording
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 | Pierre Boulez: Rituel / Eclat / Multiples - Ensemble InterContemporain / BBC Symphony Orchestra by Pierre Boulez
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $5.49 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW (included in new Sony set)
These compositions have the virtue of relative brevity!
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 | Boulez conducts Boulez
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $8.90 HAPPY 80th PIERRE!
New recording of "The Hammer Without a Master," a key early serialist work by Boulez. NPR's Fresh Air did a great interview on May 12, 2005.
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 | Boulez: ...Explosante-fixe...
Buy used from: $8.95 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
Reissue of "...explosante-fixe...", Boulez's most powerful work, for electronic flute & ensemble.
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 | Pierre Boulez: Répons / Dialogue de l'Ombre Double (20/21 series) by Vincent Bauer
Buy used from: $11.95 4 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
A Webernian spiral with full utilization of IRCAM's computers. I predict Boulez as a composer will go down as "The Prophet of Webern," more than as an original.
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 | Boulez: Sur Incises/Messagesquisse/Anthèms 2
Buy used from: $5.71 4 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
"Sur Incises" and "Anthemes 2" are the latest Boulez compositions to be recorded.
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 | Pierre Boulez: Juxta Positions
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $9.30 performances of "Sur Incises" and "Eclat Multiples"
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 | Luciano Berio: Corale (Sequenza VIII), for Violin, 2 Horns & Strings / Chemins II (Sequenza VI) / Chemins IV (Sequenza VII) / Ritorno degli Snovidenia, for Cello & Small Orchestra / "Points on the Curve to Find...", for Piano & 22 Instrumentalists - Pierre Boulez by Luciano Berio
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $4.50 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
Five concertos with violin, viola, cello, oboe and piano-- fantastic!
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 | Carter: Oboe Concerto, Esprit Rude - Esprit Doux, a Mirror on Which to Dwell by Trouttet
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $5.32 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
4 excellent Carter compositions performed by Heinz Holliger on oboe and the Ensemble Intercontemporain, and conducted by Pierre Boulez
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 | György Ligeti: Clear or Cloudy
Buy new: $29.99 / Used from: $13.44 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
includes the Cello Concerto from the 1960s and the Piano and Violin Concertos of the 1980s, all with Boulez and the Ensemble Intercontemporain, including the premiere of the Violin Concerto with Gawriloff
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