 | Boulez conducts Boulez
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.50 HAPPY 80th PIERRE! New recording of "The Hammer Without a Master," a key early serialist work by Boulez. (great interview on NPR's Fresh Air on 5/12/05!!)
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 | Anton Webern: Complete Works, Opp. 1-31 by Anton Webern
Buy used from: $49.09 4 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) For Boulez, Webern is the key, and here he conducts the Complete Works.
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 | Complete Webern by Anton von Webern
Buy new: $71.98 / Used from: $57.07 Boulez with another pass at Webern. This DG set includes both the official numbered works and the unnumbered works.
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 | Arnold Schoenberg: Serenade/Five Pieces For Orchestra
Buy new: $6.97 / Used from: $3.99 5 STARS) 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: $16.98 / Used from: $12.00 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 John Graham Hall
Buy new: $33.98 / Used from: $18.25 Schoenberg's last great work, using his 12-tone system to address God and morality.
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 | Berg: Chamber Concerto; Three Orchestral Pieces, Op. 6; Violin Concerto
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $5.84 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) Three fantastic works, one of the best of Boulez on Sony.
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 | Berg: Wozzeck
Buy used from: $150.00 "Wozzeck" might be the most widely heard of all the Second Vienna School (2VS) works of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg.
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 | Berg - Lulu / Stratas · Minton · Schwarz · Mazura · Riegel · Blankenheim · Tear · Pampuch · Boulez
Buy used from: $38.58 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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 | Alban Berg: Lulu Suite/The Wine/Lyric Suite
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $4.64 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) 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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 | Mahler: Symphony No. 2 ("Resurrection")
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.49 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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 | Debussy: Orchestral Works
Buy new: $23.98 / Used from: $8.55 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) Great set of Debussy from the 1960s. Boulez's recent DG recordings are more polished, but lack the zing.
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 | Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé / La Valse - Berliner Philharmoniker / Pierre Boulez
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.44 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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 | Pierre Boulez Edition - Stravinsky: Rite Of Spring, Petrouchka / New York PO, Cleveland Orchestra
Buy new: $8.98 / Used from: $5.99 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) This is a powerful rendition of the "Rite"!
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 | Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2; Rhapsodies Nos. 1 & 2
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $3.98 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) 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: $6.97 / Used from: $5.99 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) A fantastic set of Varese -- 3 more pieces coupled with Carter found below at #21.
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 | Olivier Messiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum; Chronochromie; La Ville d'en haut
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $10.97 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) Messiaen was Boulez's teacher -- here are two of his best works.
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 | Pierre Boulez: Pli selon pli; Livre pour cordes
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $4.21 4 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) 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: $8.99 / Used from: $5.64 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) these compositions have the virtue of relative brevity! (don't be misled by the incorrect CD cover displayed by Amazon...)
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 | Boulez: ...Explosante-fixe...
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $12.39 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: $9.96 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: $7.50 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: $19.97 / Used from: $16.96 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: $9.98 / Used from: $4.42 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 Holliger
Buy new: $12.99 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: $30.98 / Used from: $21.67 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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