Program #3, May 18 2000: Featured composers series, part 0: Pierre Boulez.

We reviewed various high points of Boulez' life and work from the 1940s up to the present, culminating in broadcast of his 2000 Grammy-winning (for "Best Classical Contemporary Composition") Répons. Along the way, to serve as a kind of palate-cleanser between wine-tastings, we also heard a couple of brief compositions by other composers with some relationship to Boulez.

Hour Artist Title Date Performers Album Label Number
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12m Einstürzende Neubauten Wüste 1992   Tabula Rasa Mute 61458-2
Pierre Boulez Première Sonate 1946 Michaël Levinas Boulez: 1re Sonate, etc. Disques Ades 14.079-2
Pierre Boulez Le Marteau sans Maître 1954   Boulez: Le Marteau sans Maître, etc. Odyssey 32 16 0154 (LP)
Frank Zappa Jonestown 1984 Barking Pumpkin Digital Gratification Consort The Perfect Stranger Barking Pumpkin D2 74242
1a Pierre Boulez Tombeau from Pli Selon Pli 1962 Phyllis Bryn-Julson; BBC Symphony Orchestra (cond. P. Boulez) Pli Selon Pli Erato 2292-45376-2
Pierre Boulez Memoriale 1972 Members of the London Sinfonietta (cond. G. Benjamin) Benjamin: Antara, etc. Nimbus NI 5167
Pierre Boulez Rituel in memoriam Maderna 1975 BBC Symphony Orchestra (cond. P. Boulez) Rituel / Eclat / Multiples Sony Classical SMK 45839
2a Sylvano Bussotti Nascosto (Nove Parti per Pierre Boulez)   Contempoensemble (cond. M. Ceccanti) Sciarrino, Bussotti, Berio, Xenakis Arts 447135-2
Pierre Boulez Répons 1984 Ensemble InterContemporain (cond. P. Boulez) Répons Deutsche Grammophon 289 457 605-2
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