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The liberating, invigorating music of Pierre Boulez

The Spectator 10 Apr 2025
‘When you’re not offensive in life, you obtain absolutely nothing,’ declares a twinkly-eyed Pierre Boulez in one of the archive films that the Barbican were screening to celebrate the composer’s centenary.
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Pierre Boulez at 100: What Is His Legacy Today?

New York Times 08 Apr 2025
The legacy of this composer and conductor may not be in his rarely performed works, but in how we think about music itself ... .
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The week in classical: BBCSO Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez; RLPO/ Hindoyan: Mahler Symphony No 3; Joyce DiDonato and Maxim Emelyanychev – review

The Observer 06 Apr 2025
At a talk about Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) at the Barbican last Sunday, one of the speakers dared suggest that the BBC is no longer the cultural beacon it was in the French composer-conductor’s lifetime ... Pierre Boulez ★★★★.
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The week in classical: BBCSO Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez; RLPO/ Hindoyan: Mahler Symphony No 3; ...

The Guardian 05 Apr 2025
At a talk about Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) at the Barbican last Sunday, one of the speakers dared suggest that the BBC is no longer the cultural beacon it was in the French composer-conductor’s lifetime.
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Pierre Boulez was exacting – but never in a bad tempo | Letters

The Guardian 04 Apr 2025
In 2005, I was chairman of the BBC Symphony Orchestra when Pierre Boulez (Editorial, 28 March) conducted a special concert for his 80th birthday ... Boulez had previously ...
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Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez review – still refreshingly alien

The Guardian 31 Mar 2025
It’s hard in our current climate to imagine any other iconoclast of musical modernism being celebrated as energetically as Pierre Boulez is to mark his centenary year ... There is, in theory, a Boulez for everyone.
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Total Immersion Boulez review — an explosive celebration of a giant

The Times/The Sunday Times 31 Mar 2025
Puzzles. Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles. Crossword. Polygon. Sudoku ... One was Pierre Boulez, whose music was described as “miserable” and unlikely to draw punters if a future Boulez festival was attempted ... Culture. Classical & Opera ... FIRST NIGHT.
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The Guardian view on 20th-century composers: play it again, maestro

The Guardian 28 Mar 2025
Radio 3’s celebration of Pierre Boulez is a chance to revisit “difficult” music and break down divisions between old and new styles. The French composer, conductor and musical polemicist Pierre Boulez was born 100 years ago this week.
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Michael White’s classical news: Pierre Boulez; Jennifer Vyvyan; Requiem for Water; Joyce DiDonato

Islington Tribune 27 Mar 2025
WHEN the composer/conductor Pierre Boulez suggested blowing up opera houses as an “expensive” but “elegant” solution to the problems faced by classical music, it marked him out forever as a firebrand.
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'Blow up the opera houses!': 100 years of Pierre Boulez

Deutsche Welle 26 Mar 2025
The French composer and conductor despised the staid and conservative and desired no less than a classical music revolution. He irrevocably shaped Europe's music and culture scene throughout the 20th century ... .
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